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Before Latest Phone Debut, Apple Has Harsher Competition
As soon as Apple unveils its highly anticipated new version of the iPhone on Tuesday, millions of people are likely to start plotting how to be among the first...
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How to Hatch a Dinosaur
People have told Jack Horner he’s crazy before, but he has always turned out to be right.
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On the Front Line Against the Next Stuxnet
Something has gone terribly wrong on the plant floor at ACME Specialty Chemical International Inc.
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Taking Touch Beyond the Touch Screen
A tablet computer developed collaboratively by researchers at Intel, Microsoft, and the University of Washington can be controlled not only by swiping and pinching...
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What to Do If You've Been Hacked
It's a nightmare scenario every business fears. Your tech department has spotted suspicious activity on the company network. Your customers and employees are...
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Ready For the Robot Revolution?
Robots are about to invade our lives. From performing household chores, to entertaining and educating our children, to looking after the elderly, roboticists...
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Supercomputer Simulations of the Evolution of the niverse
Two research articles describing the most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe yet made—named "Bolshoi"...
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How Rapidly Expanding Storage Spurs Innovation
Moore's Law gets all the press. It's easy to present even to non-technical readers, and the way it's most often expressed is something like, "computers double...
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Idaho Laboratory Analyzed Stuxnet Computer Virus
Behind the doors of a nondescript red brick and gray building of the Idaho National Laboratory is the malware laboratory where government cyber experts analyzed...
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Autonomous Flying Robots Flock Like Birds
At Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale’s Laboratory of Intelligence Systems in Lausanne, Sabine Hauert and Dario Floreano have found a way to make small, fixed-wing...
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A Made-to-Measure Social Network For the Academic World
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne researchers have developed Graaasp, an academic social network that responds to the specific needs of the academic world...
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Python Bindings Snake Into Global Arrays Toolkit
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers have expanded the Global Arrays Toolkit to include full support for the Python computer programming language.
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There Is Life on Mars! Just One Catch
NASA's Planetary Protection Officer Catharine A. Conley says that we've already contaminated the Red Planet with organisms from Earth.
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The 'worm' That Could Bring Down the Internet
For the past three years, a highly encrypted computer worm called Conficker has been spreading rapidly around the world. As many as 12 million computers have...
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Software Developer Shows Face-Swapping in Realtime
New software can now replace a face with another in real time.
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Steve Lionel on Why Fortran Still Matters
For Intel technical staff member Steve Lionel there is no question about the continued relevance of the 54-year-old Fortran programming language.
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Drone Makers Seek Out New Targets
Almost a century after the first pilot-less plane was test launched from the back of a truck in the English village of Upavon, unmanned aircraft vehicles, or...
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Dhs Thinks Some Scada Problems Are Too Big To Call "bug"
The Stuxnet worm may be the most famous piece of malicious software ever written. When it was first detected, a little over a year ago, the worm sounded a warning...
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