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American Businesses in China Feel Heat of a Cyberdispute
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American Businesses in China Feel Heat of a Cyberdispute

A top Chinese general was in a combative mood as he presided recently over an international security forum at a historic hotel near the Forbidden City. Among the...

Bake Your Own Robot
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Bake Your Own Robot

Printable robots—those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers—have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna...

A Rare Look Inside the Air Force's Drone Training Classroom
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A Rare Look Inside the Air Force's Drone Training Classroom

Learning how to drop bombs and fire Hellfire missiles is more like sitting in a regular college classroom than you might expect.

Automating Cybersecurity
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Automating Cybersecurity

If only computers themselves were smart enough to fight off malevolent hackers.

­.s. Schools Missing Opportunities For More CS Majors
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­.s. Schools Missing Opportunities For More CS Majors

Nearly half of U.S. college students majoring in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines change their majors.

A Stellar Discovery on the Milky Way's Far Side
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A Stellar Discovery on the Milky Way's Far Side

A single Hubble Space Telescope image can capture scores of distant galaxies, but the one galaxy we'll never see from the outside is our own.

High-Performance Computing at Los Alamos Announces Milestone For Key/value Middleware
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High-Performance Computing at Los Alamos Announces Milestone For Key/value Middleware

A project has achieved 1,782,105,749 key/value inserts per second into a globally-ordered key space on Los Alamos National Laboratory's Moonlight supercomputer. ...

Php Keepers Plot Radical Revision of the Language
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Php Keepers Plot Radical Revision of the Language

PHP core developer Dmitry Stogov recently started a new branch of the language called PHP Next Generation.

Is It a Crow or a Raven? New Birdsnap App Will Tell You!
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Is It a Crow or a Raven? New Birdsnap App Will Tell You!

Birdsnap is a new smartphone app that uses computer vision and machine-learning techniques to produce an electronic field guide to North American birds. 

How MIT and Caltech's Coding Breakthrough Could Accelerate Mobile Network Speeds
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How MIT and Caltech's Coding Breakthrough Could Accelerate Mobile Network Speeds

Researchers say they have successfully transmitted data without link layer flow control overloading throughput with retransmission requests. 

How to Make Robots Seem Less Creepy
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How to Make Robots Seem Less Creepy

Recent research has shown the "uncanny valley" hypothesis for human-robot interaction is overstated.

Skip the Humans: Drug Discovery By Simulating Cells
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Skip the Humans: Drug Discovery By Simulating Cells

The future of medicine, we're often told, will be personalized.

Repairing the Brain
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Repairing the Brain

Will the problem of memory loss one day be forgotten?

Flashes of Light Show How Memories Are Made
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Flashes of Light Show How Memories Are Made

Neuroscientists can breathe a collective sigh of relief.

The Military Is Building Brain Chips to Treat Ptsd
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The Military Is Building Brain Chips to Treat Ptsd

How well can you predict your next mood swing?

Team Develops a Software Able to Identify and Track an Specific Individual Within a Group
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Team Develops a Software Able to Identify and Track an Specific Individual Within a Group

Researchers say they have taken a new approach to monitoring animals that move in groups, with hopes of learning their rules of interaction. 

Nsa Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
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Nsa Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images

The U.S. National Security Agency is intercepting massive numbers of facial images for use in facial-recognition programs.

Google Invests in Satellites to Spread Internet Access
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Google Invests in Satellites to Spread Internet Access

Google plans to spend more than $1 billion on a group of satellites designed to extend Internet access to unwired regions of the world. 

Sex Harassment App Helps Women Map Abuse
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Sex Harassment App Helps Women Map Abuse

A team of researchers has created a smartphone app designed to combat sexual harassment. 

Digital Actors Go Beyond the ­ncanny Valley
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Digital Actors Go Beyond the ­ncanny Valley

Graphics specialists are close to developing interactive, photorealistically lifelike digital humans that will transform acting, entertainment, and computer games...
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