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Nsa Can Legally Access Metadata of 25,000 Callers Based on a Single Suspect's Phone
Despite changes to the law, the U.S. National Security Agency can still request metadata from tens of thousands of private phones if they are indirectly connected...
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Holoflex: A Flexible Smartphone With a Holographic Display
The HoloFlex is a flexible smartphone with a holographic lightfield display that can simultaneously project glasses-free three-dimensional images to multiple users...
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Creating a Prosthetic Hand That Can Feel
Researchers have developed a "myoelectric" haptic system designed to work with a prosthetic hand.
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Graphene Filter Could Make Wireless Data Transmission 10 Times Faster
Swiss researchers have developed a graphene filter for microchips that could lead to wireless transmission rates 10 times as fast as what chips deliver today.
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Tiny Little Multi-Modal Picobug Walks, Flies, Grabs Stuff
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Laboratory have designed a robot called Picobug that can fly and walk, and soon will be able to grab things...
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How Google Wants to Solve Robotic Grasping By Letting Robots Learn For Themselves
Google Research is letting robots them learn for themselves how to grasp objects.
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Stanford's Flying, Perching Scamp Robot Can Climb Straight p Walls
A robot developed at Stanford University is the first to combine flying, perching with passive attachment technology, and climbing.
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Quantum Computer Comes Closer to Cracking Rsa Encryption
Computer scientists say they have assembled the first five quantum bits of a quantum computer that could someday factor any number.
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Will the Nsa Finally Build Its Superconducting Spy Computer?
The U.S. National Security Agency vision of a superconducting supercomputer may leap forward with the Cryogenic Computing Complexity program.
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Study: Nobody Wants Social Robots That Look Like Humans Because They Threaten Our Identity
A recent study found the adoption of social robots into people's lives is complicated by humans' tendency to view human-like robots as a threat to their identity...
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World's First Single-Atom Optical Switch Fabricated
Researchers from ETH Zurich Switzerland have fabricated the world's first single-atom optical switch.
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Sensors Slip Into the Brain, Then Dissolve When the Job Is Done
University of Illinois researchers have developed flexible sensors that can operate accurately inside the human body for at least five days before dissolving.
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How Supercomputing Can Survive Beyond Moore's Law
Supercomputing needs to be extended beyond the limits of Moore's Law, says Sandia National Laboratories' Erik DeBenedictis.
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Iran Demonstrates New Humanoid Robot Surena Iii
Researchers at Iran's University of Tehran have unveiled a humanoid robot that can walk, mimic a person's arm gestures, and stand on one foot while bending backwards...
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Disney Software Makes It Easy to Design and Print Custom Walking Robots
A joint research project has yielded an interactive design system that enables hobbyists to create custom walking robots that can be printed in three dimensions...
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Leap Second Heads Into Fierce Debate
When Earth's rotation gets far enough out of sync with the drumbeat of atomic time, a leap second is added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and the world’s clocks...
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Spider Silk Sensors Could Search For Life on Mars
Ziggy Stardust would love this: Spiders could help find life on Mars.
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Novel Nanostructures Could Usher in Touchless Displays
The swipe--without actually needing to touch a screen with a finger--will be the next dominant computer interface method, according to researchers in Germany.
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Neural Implant Enables Paralyzed Als Patient to Type Six Words Per Minute
Typing six words per minute may not sound very impressive. But for paralyzed people typing via a brain-computer interface (BCI), it's a new world record.
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