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Apple: Disrupt or Perish
While the secret for Apple's success seems patently obvious to most&meash;as obvious as the form and function of the iPhone 4—a more subtle reason is the company's...
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Nasa Inventions Headed to Your Home
With only two shuttle flights left and the future of manned spaceflight in question, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is having a bit of an identity...
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In Pursuit of Qubits, Uniting Subatomic Particles By the Billions
In a step toward a generation of ultrafast computers, physicists have used bursts of radio waves to briefly create 10 billion quantum-entangled pairs of subatomic...
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Researchers Helping Pentagon Build Mind-Controlled Prosthetics
A U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-funded multi-institution research project aims to develop mind-controlled prosthetic devices that will not break...
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Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay
The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel’s never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories...
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Wolfram Education Apps Raise Teaching Dilemma
Wolfram Research, a software company with deep mathematical and scientific expertise, is expanding to the broad education market with a range of mobile apps.
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Google's Artificial Intelligence Translates Poetry
Researchers at Google are tackling what they call one of the most difficult challenges in artificial intelligence.
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Solid-State Memories Pave the Way to Practical Quantum Communication
Two groups of physicists have managed to shift the quantum entanglement between two photons onto an entangled state between one photon and a quantum memor.
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10 New Open Source Projects to Watch
Black Duck Software recently announced its 2010 open-source Rookies of the Year list. It says the top open source project is Diaspora, a social network that began...
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Project Euclid's Mathjax Displays 'beautiful Math' Online
Project Euclid, an online information community for mathematicians, has implemented MathJax, new technology that presents math attractively and reliably on the...
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Amassing a Small Army Against a Growing Enemy
Boston University researchers have developed software aimed at identifying unwanted Internet traffic, which would enable network providers to stop botnets from...
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'Money Sucking' Phones in China Spur Government Action
The Chinese government is taking steps to stop mobile phone makers from installing malware on devices which triggers fee-based services without a user's knowledge...
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Dazzling Dual-Core Phones and Tablets
New processors are a big improvement, but it will take time for apps to take advantage.
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Computer Simulations For Safer Planes
European researchers are exploring the use of computer simulation in the building of aircraft. Forty-four partners from 11 countries are measuring aircraft parts...
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DARPA Wants a New Language to Explain Everything
Darpa has a well-earned rep for some of the most ambitious, over-the-top research programs of all time. But this might be the most over-the-toppest of all. The...
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Now, You Can Control Computer Commands By Thought
OpenViBE, a software platform that will enable users to communicate via their thoughts with a computer or any other automated system, has been demonstrated by French...
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Breaking Bottlenecks
A new algorithm enables much faster dissemination of information through self-organizing networks with a few scattered choke points.
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NFL Fighting Head Injuries with Technology
The NFL is turning to technology to both measure and mitigate pro football's effect on players' brains, pushing into unexplored territory as officials try to...
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