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Drivers With Hands Full Get a Backup: The Car
Car makers increasingly are adopting technologies for use in autonomous vehicles that take advantage of the array of optical and radar sensors in new cars. The...
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Their Apps Track You. Will Congress Track Them?
There are three things that matter in consumer data collection: location, location, location.
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Mobile Apps Drive Rapid Change in Searches
When the Federal Trade Commission decided last week to close its antitrust investigation of Google without charges, one important factor, though hardly mentioned...
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Digital Globes Offer a Dynamic Vision
In the main hall of the hands-on science exhibits at the Cape Town Science Center in South Africa, a lifeless, tattered globe stands under naked fluorescent bulbs...
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All the World's a Game, and Business Is a Player
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Students Rush to Web Classes, but Profits May Be Much Later
Several approaches to online education are emerging, and universities across the United States are increasing their online offerings. However, none of these programs...
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Communications Satellites Made Legal For Export
To the delight of American satellite makers, communications satellites—which orbit Earth to relay phone calls, link ships to shore and broadcast television programs—will...
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Outmaneuvered at Their Own Game, Antivirus Makers Struggle to Adapt
The antivirus industry has a dirty little secret: its products are often not very good at stopping viruses.
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Real and Virtual Firearms Nurture a Marketing Link
As Electronic Arts prepared to market Medal of Honor Warfighter, the latest version of its top-selling video game released in October, it created a Web site that...
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Robotic Gadgets For Household Chores
Joseph Schlesinger, an engineer living near Boston, thinks robotic toys are too expensive, the result of extravagant designs, expensive components and a poor understanding...
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Wallflowers of Silicon Valley Get Asked to Dance
After years of being wallflowers at Silicon Valley's hottest tech conferences and Sean Parker's after-parties, enterprise technology firms are now part of the "in"...
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A Brooklyn Protester Pleads Guilty After His Twitter Posts Sink His Case
In the end, the tweets told the tale.
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.s. Rejects Telecommunications Treaty
The United States, Canada, and several European countries formally rejected a treaty proposed by Russia, China, and several developing countries that would have...
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Learning to Accept, and Master, a $110,000 Mechanical Arm
After the explosion, Cpl. Sebastian Gallegos awoke to see the October sun glinting through the water, an image so lovely he thought he was dreaming.
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A Rising Tide of Noise Is Now Easy to See
When a hurricane forced the Nautilus to dive in Jules Verne’s "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," Captain Nemo took the submarine down to a depth of 25 fathoms...
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Planning His Legacy, Cisco Chief Maps an Expansion
John T. Chambers has readied his last great act as the leader of Cisco Systems, fearing major changes in the technology business that could doom his company.
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Silencing the Voices of Militants on Twitter
Twitter, perhaps more than any other social media outlet, has become one of the most powerful tools to promote democracy in the Middle East.
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Courts Divided Over Searches of Cellphones
Judges and lawmakers across the country are wrangling over whether and when law enforcement authorities can peer into suspects' cellphones, and the cornucopia of...
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ndisclosed Finding By Mars Rover Fuels Intrigue
The Mars rover Curiosity has found something—something noteworthy, in a pinch of Martian sand. But what is it?
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