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'Brainprints' Offer Better Security Than Fingerprints
Research into dyslexia has led to an unexpected breakthrough in security and identity verification with biometric "brainprints" that could one day replace fingerprints...
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Silicon Valley Targets Smart Guns
In the 2012 movie Skyfall, James Bond brandishes his trusty sidearm, but with a high-tech twist: There's a sensor in the grip that reads palm prints so only he...
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DARPA Wants to Hack Your Brain
The secretive U.S. military research division DARPA has announced plans to create a device that could accelerate learning in the human brain.
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Prediction Machines Will See the Future For Hedge Funds, CIA
Every time a new year rolls in, lots of people make predictions. Most will either be obvious (Apple will put out some new products) or wrong (still waiting for...
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Cyberattacks as Significant as Traditional Threats, Says Battleship Manufacturer
Warfare is increasingly being fought from behind computer screens rather than on the battlefield, forcing weapons manufacturers to consider the myriad of threats...
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Supercomputer Race Heats Up as China Bans Exports of High-Performance Machines
China is curbing exports of its high-performance machines in an apparent attempt to stay one step ahead of the U.S. in a race for the world's fastest supercomputer...
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There May Be Infinite niverses—and Infinite Versions of You
In another universe you might have become the president of Micronesia. Or a pauper, subsisting on ketchup.
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Introducing the Astronaut Clothing of the Future
A crew member aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is performing routine maintenance.
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Storing Digital Data For Eternity
Vint Cerf is sometimes called the "father of the Internet." He helped develop TCP/IP (the communications protocol for the Internet) and later became chairman of...
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Technology Doesn't Explain the Philly Train Crash
Cars can now drive by themselves. Automatic pilot systems can fly a jet airliner much of the time. Why is it so hard to make trains that can stop on their own?
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Prosthetics That Can Feel, Thanks to the Science of Touch
In 2012, Pennsylvania native Jan Scheuermann ate the most satisfying bite of chocolate of her life.
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Silicon Valley Is Trying to Make Humans Immortal—and Finding Some Success
Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, plans to live to be 120. Compared with some other tech billionaires, he doesn't seem particularly ambitious.
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Meet Kevin Ashton, Father of the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things started in the mid-1990s, when a quirky young brand manager in the U.K. puzzled over why a shade of brown lipstick kept disappearing from...
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Nasa Begins Countdown to Pluto Flyby
Today marks the beginning of the world’s encounter with Pluto, as a NASA spacecraft that has journeyed for nine years begins its first phrase of approach to the...
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Technology's Latest Quest: Tracking Mental Health
Several teams are working on new ways of determining what elements of behavior or mannerisms could be tracked to monitor a person's mental health.
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Technology's Latest Quest: Tracking Mental Health
You can now count your steps, measure your glucose levels, monitor your blood pressure and track your caloric intake from your phone or high-tech wristband.
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China May Be Monitoring Hong Kong Protesters' Off-the-Grid Chats
An app called FireChat is making headlines for being the go-to medium for communication among pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
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Is Emailing Your Brainwaves the Future of Communication?
Here's something you probably didn't expect in your inbox: Researchers have now developed a way to email brainwaves.
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Digging Through Big Data to Find Alien Life
Back in the 1970s, scientists at Ohio State University began searching for signs of intelligent alien life using a radio telescope the size of three football fields...
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