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Collaborative Photography App Allows Smartphones to Record 'bullet Time'
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Collaborative Photography App Allows Smartphones to Record 'bullet Time'

Anyone can now create "bullet-time" movies using collaborative photography techniques on their smartphones. 

Researchers Build First Working Memcomputer Prototype
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Researchers Build First Working Memcomputer Prototype

Researchers say they have built the first working prototype of a memory-crunching computer (memcomputer). 

Study: Smartphone Use May Be Detrimental to Learning
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Study: Smartphone Use May Be Detrimental to Learning

A year-long study of first-time smartphone users by Rice University and the U.S. Air Force found users believed the devices were detrimental to their ability to...

And Now, the Hopping Robot
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And Now, the Hopping Robot

Using three-dimensional printing, engineers at Harvard University have developed a robot that integrates rigid and soft materials and can move autonomously. 

Moxie Marlinspike: The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts
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Moxie Marlinspike: The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts

Dreadlocked programmer has spooked the FBI by creating a tool that police cannot crack.

Nasa Missions Have Their Eyes Peeled on Pluto
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Nasa Missions Have Their Eyes Peeled on Pluto

What's icy, has "wobbly" potato-shaped moons, and is the world's best-known dwarf planet?

Cutting Cost and Power Consumption For Big Data
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Cutting Cost and Power Consumption For Big Data

Researchers from MIT are developing a new system that could enable flash-based servers to perform as well as RAM-based servers, but at less cost and using less...

Toss Your Manual Overboard; Augmented Reality Aims at Big Industry
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Toss Your Manual Overboard; Augmented Reality Aims at Big Industry

For better or for worse, augmented reality (AR) is charging forward in the consumer space—but there's a place for AR in the industrial world as well.

Nasa's New Horizons: A 'heart' from Pluto as Flyby Begins
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Nasa's New Horizons: A 'heart' from Pluto as Flyby Begins

After a more than nine-year, three-billion-mile journey to Pluto, it's show time for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, as the flyby sequence of science observations...

Tiny Wires Could Provide a Big Energy Boost
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Tiny Wires Could Provide a Big Energy Boost

MIT researchers have found a new approach to deliver the short but intense bursts of power needed by wearable electronic devices for health and fitness monitoring...

IBM Discloses Working Version of a Much Higher-Capacity Chip
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IBM Discloses Working Version of a Much Higher-Capacity Chip

IBM said on Thursday that it had made working versions of ultradense computer chips, with roughly four times the capacity of today's most powerful chips.

Head-Mounted Displays to Aid the Disabled
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Head-Mounted Displays to Aid the Disabled

Products like the Oculus Rift and Google Glass could help ameliorate physical and perceptual impairments.

The 24/7 Search For Killer Quakes
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The 24/7 Search For Killer Quakes

At 17 minutes past midnight on Saturday 25 April, Rob Sanders's computer started chiming with alerts.

Introducing the Astronaut Clothing of the Future
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Introducing the Astronaut Clothing of the Future

A crew member aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is performing routine maintenance.

Almost Time For Pluto's Close-Up
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Almost Time For Pluto's Close-Up

The pictures coming back from Pluto are still a bit fuzzy. But just wait.

Code Specialists Oppose U.S. and British Government Access to Encrypted Communication
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Code Specialists Oppose U.S. and British Government Access to Encrypted Communication

An elite group of code makers and code breakers is taking American and British intelligence and law enforcement agencies to task in a new paper that evaluates government...

Seahorse Tails Could Inspire New Generation of Robots
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Seahorse Tails Could Inspire New Generation of Robots

Clemson University researchers have developed a 3-D printed model based on the square prism of a seahorse tail, as well as a hypothetical cylindrical version. They...

Leap Motion's Augmented-Reality Computing Looks Stupid Cool
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Leap Motion's Augmented-Reality Computing Looks Stupid Cool

We have a habit of filling new technologies with old ideas.

Car Dashboards That Act Like Smart Phones Raise Safety Issues
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Car Dashboards That Act Like Smart Phones Raise Safety Issues

When it comes to dashboard displays that are more like smart phones, two things are clear: Customers want them, and automakers are intent on supplying them.

Google's Deep Learning Machine Learns to Synthesize Real World Images
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Google's Deep Learning Machine Learns to Synthesize Real World Images

Google Street View offers panoramic views of more or less any city street in much of the developed world, as well as views along countless footpaths, inside shopping...
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