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Smart Lighting Follows People
A new low-cost technique allows the use of light-emitting diodes to track people’s locations and gestures within a room.
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Bugs in the System
Bacteria could be used to improve the electronic properties of graphene.
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2016 Tech Impact Champion Announced: Ed Lazowska to Be Honored
Ed Lazowska, University of Washington Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering, was named Seattle Business magazine's Tech Impact Champion.
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Artificial Black Hole Creates Its Own Version of Hawking Radiation
Black holes are not actually black. Instead, these gravitational sinks are thought to emit radiation that causes them to shrink and eventually disappear.
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Ironic Windows Vulnerability Shows Why Backdoors Can't Work
Apple's refusal to comply with a court order to help the FBI crack an iPhone highlighted the pressure tech companies face to include backdoors in their software...
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Tim Cook: Running Apple 'is Sort of a Lonely Job'
On a sleek white coffee table in Apple CEO Tim Cook's fourth-floor office in late July, beneath framed posters of Robert F. Kennedy, the Rev. Martin Luther King...
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Envisioning Bitcoin's Technology at the Heart of Global Finance
A new report from the World Economic Forum predicts that the underlying technology introduced by the virtual currency Bitcoin will come to occupy a central place...
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New Air-Gap Jumper Covertly Transmits Data in Hard-Drive Sounds
Researchers have devised a new way to siphon data out of an infected computer even when it has been physically disconnected from the Internet to prevent the leakage...
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Expensive Drones Take Flying Lessons from Cheaper Stunt Doubles
Some of the best lessons come from the school of hard knocks. But some kit is too delicate or expensive to be subjected to this.
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Robot-Like Machines Helped People with Spinal Injuries Regain Function
Researchers in Brazil who are trying to help people with spine injuries gain mobility have made a surprising discovery: Injured people doing brain training while...
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Researchers Find That Android Apps Can Secretly Track Users' Whereabouts
A team of researchers has demonstrated how Android applications can be manipulated to transmit sensitive information using a phone's built-in sensors.
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Cyberattack Concerns Real About U.s. Presidential Election, Stanford Scholar Says
Stanford University cybersecurity scholar Herbert Lin contends foreign hackers constitute a viable threat against the U.S. presidential election.
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Toward a Better Screen
Researchers say they have designed new blue-light-emitting molecules for organic light-emitting diodes that could dramatically improve displays for TVs, phones,...
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The Robot You Want Most Is Far From Reality
House-cleaning robots will surely be popular, but building one will be a daunting challenge, according to researchers.
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Smart Yogurt and Automatic Warfare? The Future of Computers in America
Groundbreaking achievements in computing are expected in the next 35 years.
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How the Father of the World Wide Web Plans to Reclaim It from Facebook and Google
Tim Berners-Lee is working to help you own your own data, while making it available to the applications that you want to be able to use it.
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A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100 Million Volkswagens
In 2013, when University of Birmingham computer scientist Flavio Garcia and a team of researchers were preparing to reveal a vulnerability that allowed them todelayed...
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'faceless Recognition System' Can Identify You Even When You Hide Your Face
With widespread adoption among law enforcement, advertisers, and even churches, face recognition has undoubtedly become one of the biggest threats to privacy out...
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