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Crowds Prowl Google Street View to Speed Road Repairs
Software developed by a team at the University of Maryland at College Park makes use of crowdsourcing to report road problems to local governments.
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Robots With Lift
Harvard University researchers have developed a soft robot that can leap up to one foot in the air using small explosions.
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Supercomputing Crucial to Clean Energy Production
The U.S. National Energy Technology Laboratory has acquired a 500-teraflop SGI supercomputer to advance energy and environmental research.
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Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.s.
On the outskirts of Shanghai, in a run-down neighborhood dominated by a 12-story white office tower, sits a People's Liberation Army base for China’s growing corps...
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New High-Tech Warfare Medal Draws Backlash
The Pentagon sparked an uproar among troops and veterans when it revealed that a new high-level medal honoring drone pilots will rank above some traditional combat...
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Why Didn't We Know the Russian Meteor Was Coming?
Thomas Pynchon said it best, years before: "A screaming comes across the sky." Midmorning today, near the city of Chelyabinsk in western Siberia, a meteor came...
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The Drones of the Future May Build Skyscrapers
Drones can't just destroy, they can create.
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Nasa to Chronicle Close Earth Flyby of Asteroid
NASA Television will provide commentary starting at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) on Friday, Feb. 15, during the close, but safe, flyby of a small near-Earth asteroid...
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Moshers, Heavy Metal and Emergent Behavior
Researchers say the collective movement of concert-goers in a mosh pit is mathematically similar to that of a disordered 2-D gas.
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Mapping the Underworld
The Mapping the Underworld project is developing a multi-sensor platform that can locate, map in three dimensions, and record the position of buried utility assets...
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Self-Driving Car Given Uk Test Run at Oxford University
Oxford University researchers have developed a self-driving car that uses lasers and small cameras, rather than GPS, to direct the vehicle along regular routes. ...
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Hidden System Makes It Easier For Elderly People to Live at Home
A new assistive system to help senior citizens live at home embeds a tablet computer in the wall for centralized information access.
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Amid the Patent Wars, a Powerful Pact of Non-Aggression
The Open Invention Network, a community set up by an IBM-led consortium in 2005 to foster a safe patent environment for developers and users of the free, open-source...
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Why We're Building a 1-Billion Euro Model of a Human Brain
A 1-billion euro research prize will be dedicated to the Human Brain Project, aimed at recreating the human brain in a supercomputer to advance neuroscience.
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Welcome to the Malware-Industrial Complex
Every summer, computer security experts get together in Las Vegas for Black Hat and DEFCON, conferences that have earned notoriety for presentations demonstrating...
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New Global Research Data Alliance Poised For Launch
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Silicon Valley and Immigrant Groups Find Common Cause
What do computer programmers and illegal immigrants have to do with each other?
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Simulation of a One-Two Punch that Nearly Destroyed the Asteroid Vesta
The large asteroid Vesta is a true relic of our Solar System's early history.
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The Computer That Never Crashes
University College London researchers have created what they describe as a self-repairing computer that could keep mission-critical systems working.
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