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How Google's Self-Driving Car Works
Once a secret project, Google's autonomous vehicles are now out in the open, quite literally, with the company test-driving them on public roads and, on one occasion...
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Magnifying Research: Scientists Team Together to Upgrade K-State's Supercomputer, Benefiting Other Colleges, Too
Kansas State University researchers are using a $700,000 U.S. National Science Foundation grant to upgrade its Beocat supercomputer, a cluster of servers that provides...
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Georgia Tech Turns Iphone Into Spiphone
It's a pattern that no doubt repeats itself daily in hundreds of millions of offices around the world: People sit down, turn on their computers, set their mobile...
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PingPong-Playing Robots Debut
Robots are already taking away jobs at factories. Now, it appears, they're ready to rule the table tennis court, too. Two pingpong-playing humanoid robots named...
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Control a Wheelchair By Biting and Blinking
Imagine: You're paralyzed from the neck down, a full-on quadriplegic with what doctors refer to as a "high level spinal cord injury." How do you get around?
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Robot Wars 'Still a Long Way Off'
"I'll be back" said Arnold Schwarzenegger as cyborg-assassin the Terminator, back from the year 2029 to carry out a murder in 1984. But it seems that, when it...
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Making Cars More Hacker-Proof
Computer security companies and researchers have dedicated a lot of time and money to testing the virtual padlocks on your online accounts. Some are now focusing...
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New Malicious Program by Creators of Stuxnet Is Suspected
The designers of Stuxnet, the computer worm that was used to vandalize an Iranian nuclear site, may have struck again, security researchers say.
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Preventing a Pearl Harbor of Cyberspace
At a time when the Internet has been inextricably linked to our national infrastructure, there are understandably serious concerns about the ability of the U.S...
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The Quest For the Holy Grail of Storage
The cloud has a big problem on its hands: Cloud storage is failure-prone, slow, and infinitely quirky.
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Microsoft Embraces Elephant of Open Source
It took more than three years, but Microsoft has finally learned to stop worrying and love Hadoop.
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Survey: Java Losing Popularity Among Developers
The downward trend in the use of Java continues, according to Tiobe Software's latest monthly assessment of programming languages, and the company's Paul Jansen...
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Seeing Through Walls
Researchers at MIT's Lincoln Lab have developed new radar technology that provides real-time video of what’s going on behind solid walls.
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Instant Health Checks For Buildings and Bridges
During 2011's deadly onslaught of earthquakes, floods and tornadoes, countless buildings had to be evacuated while workers checked to make sure they were stable...
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Clamping Down on High-Speed Stock Trades
Regulators in the United States and overseas are cracking down on computerized high-speed trading that crowds today’s stock exchanges, worried that as it spreads...
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Steve Jobs's Patents
The 317 Apple patents that list Steven P. Jobs among the group of inventors offer a glimpse at his legendary say over the minute details of the company's products—from...
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Zot! Uc Irvine Team Proves Stellar at Mapping Dark Matter
When David Kirkby and Daniel Margala entered a contest to find out who could most accurately map dark matter in the universe, the first algorithm they submitted...
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Light Is Not Fast Enough For High-Speed Stock Trading
Every microsecond counts in stock trading. The New York Stock Exchange handles a third of the world's stock trading—around 22 billion messages a day. But NYSE Euronext...
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Knowledge Mining Resource Accelerates Science, Technology Education, Research
Virginia Tech researchers have created the Virginia Tech Knowledge Networks, a repository of more than 5,000 publications by the College of Engineering faculty,...
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