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Tractor Beam Breakthrough Could Lead to Levitating Humans
Tractor beams have made the jump from science fiction to reality in recent years, but only for levitating very small objects.
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Slac Knows How the niverse Works. Now It's Targeting Your Needs
You could be forgiven for thinking the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's glory days are long over.
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Mapping the Great Barrier Reef with Cameras, Drones and Nasa Tech
Richard Vevers, a British underwater photographer, was horrified when he returned in 2015 to a colourful reef in American Samoa he had shot a year earlier. It had...
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These Radio Telescopes See Almost to the Beginning of Time
There are few places in the world that can accommodate a radio telescope.
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Enigma: Why the Fight to Break Nazi Encryption Still Matters
It was night when three British sailors and a 16-year-old canteen assistant boarded a sinking U-boat off the coast of Egypt.
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Internet Inventor: Make Tech Accessibility Better Already
Google chief Internet evangelist Vint Cerf says technology has a poor record of accommodating people with disabilities, and he would like to see more progress made...
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Vint Cerf: It's On All of S to Fight Online Abuse, Fake News
The father of the internet says social pressure -- people collectively saying, "This is wrong" -- is crucial to battling misinformation and harassment.
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We're Ahead of Schedule to Turn 'star Trek' Tech Into Reality
Most Star Trek stories from the vaunted franchise turning 50 this week take place in a distant future we're not likely to see.
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Happy 25th Birthday to the World Wide Web
Internauts, today we celebrate this glorious technology that brings us all together! On August 23, 1991--25 years ago today--the public gained access for the first...
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Sense of the Stars: New Telescopes Poised to nlock the niverse
For nearly as long as we've walked the Earth, humans have tried to make sense of the stars.
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How Today's Farmers Got a Head-Start on Tomorrow's Tech
Cory Anstey always wanted to be a farmer. It was the joy of riding in the tractor, "the smell of the dirt in the spring" that drew him to the fields.
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se Your Eyes, Voice—and Thoughts—to Replace Passwords
I'm sitting in an office at the University of California, Berkeley with an electrode strapped to my head. A black headband holds a connector to my forehead and...
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The Advent of Virtual Humans
Justine Cassell has taken her virtual assistant Sara on a road trip.
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Bletchley Park in 360: See Inside Britain's Enigma-Breaking Hq
In a special video production, CNET takes you inside the hallowed halls of Bletchley Park, the stately home in Buckinghamshire, England where the Enigma code was...
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IBM Memory Advances Could Speed p Your Phone
Ever wanted to pound your PC as it crawls through a restart or fumed that your phone takes much too long to launch an e-book app?
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Autofocusing Contact Lenses? Today's Chip Research Peeks Into Tomorrow's Gadgets
Belgian design organization Imec is expanding into new territory with its latest computer chip technology research projects.
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How New Yorker Cartoons Could Teach Computers to Be Funny
The New Yorker magazine is using crowdsourcing algorithms to mine a massive volume of cartoon caption submissions to identify the funniest captions.
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Battery-Free Wearables of the Future Could Run Off Your Footsteps
Researchers at the University of Southampton have designed an insole to sit inside a person's shoe and harvest energy from their footsteps.
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