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Why Modern Maps Put Everyone at the Centre of the World
Got truly and outstandingly lost recently? Enjoy the feeling while you can, for it's becoming an increasingly difficult task.
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New Technology Maps Greenhouse Gas Emissions at the Street and Neighborhood Level
One of the biggest problems with climate change is that, at least in the short term, it's largely invisible.
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Judge Says Fair Use Protects Universities in Book-Scanning Project
A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a copyright infringement lawsuit against universities that participated in a massive book-digitization project in conjunction...
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The Seeds That Federal Money Can Plant
Government support is key to facilitating new ideas that are harvested by the private sector, creating companies and jobs, according to a recent U.S. National Research...
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Free Program Makes Computer Graphics More Realistic
Cornell University researchers have developed a new version of Mitsuba, a free, open source rendering program used by computer graphics researchers worldwide.
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Digital Tabletop System With Views on Demand
Scientists presented a tabletop system that supports mixed-focus collaborative tasks during the 25th ACM UIST 2012 symposium.
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Mit's Csail Launches New Center to Tackle the Future of Wireless and Mobile Technologies
MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory recently launched Wireless@MIT, an interdisciplinary center focused on developing next-generation...
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First Evidence For Iran's Parallel Halal Internet
Iranian officials have long discussed developing a religiously acceptable internal network, known as the "halal" Internet, which is isolated from the World Wide...
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NASA's Ironman-Like Exoskeleton Could Give Astronauts, Paraplegics Improved Mobility and Strength
Marvel Comics' fictional superhero, Ironman, uses a powered armor suit that allows him superhuman strength.
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Where's the Discussion of Trojan Horses?
The Mykonos Vase, discovered in 1961 in the Cyclades, is one of the earliest accounts of the Trojan Horse, used as a subterfuge by the Greeks to enter the city...
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What Comes After the Touch Screen?
In a few short years, the technologies found in today's mobile devices—touch screens, gyroscopes, and voice-control software, to name a few—have radically transformed...
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What Are Grand Technology and Scientific Challenges for the 21st Century?
What are the next Big Things in science and technology? Teleportation? Unlimited clean Energy? The scientists and researchers at DARPA and the White House Office...
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Bounce, Skid, Wobble: How Huygens Landed on Titan
The European Space Agency's Huygens probe, ferried to Saturn's moon Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, bounced, slid and wobbled its way to rest in the 10 seconds...
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New York U. Turns to Free Site to Help Teach Computer Programming
New York University's department of media, culture, and communication will use Codeacademy to provide a 10-week programming course during this semester.
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W3c Launches Web Standards Documentation Site
The World Wide Web Consortium recently launched Web Platform Docs, a Web site with tutorials and other documentation that provides information on current Web standards...
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MIT Team Builds Most Complex Synthetic Biology Circuit Yet
MIT researchers have developed circuit components that do not interfere with one another, enabling them to produce complex synthetic circuits.
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Kurzweil: Brains Will Extend to the Cloud
Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil says human brains will one day extend into the cloud, and it will be possible to selectively erase pieces of memory while keeping...
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Power in the Palm of Your Hands
Researchers at Newcastle University and Microsoft Research Cambridge have developed Digits, a wristwatch-sized sensor that tracks users' hands to enable them to...
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The Measurement that Would Reveal the Universe as a Computer Simulation
One of modern physics' most cherished ideas is quantum chromodynamics, the theory that describes the strong nuclear force, how it binds quarks and gluons into protons...
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