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Split Second
The issue of whether to add a "leap second" to square the clock with the Earth's orbit pits time specialists against IT.
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Silicon Valley Icon Wants to Hack His Way to the Presidency
Silicon Valley icon Lawrence Lessig knows his moonshot bid for the White House hinges on the innovation and support of the tech industry.
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Cassini's Final Breathtaking Close Views of Dione
A pockmarked, icy landscape looms beneath NASA's Cassini spacecraft in new images of Saturn's moon Dione taken during the mission's last close approach to the small...
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Nsa Preps Quantum-Resistant Algorithms to Head Off Crypto-Apocalypse
The National Security Agency is advising U.S. agencies and businesses to prepare for a time in the not-too-distant future when the cryptography protecting virtually...
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Small Rocks Build Big Planets
The biggest planets in the Solar System may have gotten their start from the smallest of rocks: centimetre-sized pebbles that formed 4.5 billion years ago from...
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How Apple's Force Touch Could Change the Way You se Your Next Iphone or Ipad
Pressure-sensitive screens, haptic feedback: Why should you care?
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Setting Ground Rules For Nanotechnology Research
U.S. researchers led by Duke University faculty have produced two new studies to lay the groundwork for the emerging discipline of nanoinformatics.
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Google Reveals How It Scales Its Network
Google Inc., Tuesday, outlined its decade-long journey with software-defined networking in a new paper that it presented at the ACM SIGCOMM 2015 conference in London...
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A Surprise Source of Life's Code
Genes, like people, have families—lineages that stretch back through time, all the way to a founding member.
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Something Deep Inside Pluto Is Replenishing Its Atmosphere
Pluto has a problem: Its thin, nitrogen atmosphere shouldn't be there.
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Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution
Robots evolve more quickly and efficiently after a virtual mass extinction modeled after real-life disasters such as the one that killed off the dinosaurs.
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To Inspire Software and Hardware Developers, Intel Gets Bold and Very Weird
It was about 10 seconds into the robotic spider dance that you had to remind yourself you were watching a presentation by the world's largest chipmaker, Intel.
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Superconductivity Record Sparks Wave of Follow-p Physics
Hydrogen sulfide—the compound responsible for the smell of rotten eggs—conducts electricity with zero resistance at a record high temperature of 203 kelvin (–70...
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Natural Selection: Mama Robot Builds Self-Evolving Baby-Bots
The theory of natural selection popularised by Charles Darwin has now been demonstrated in robots.
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Atlas, a Humanoid Robot, Takes a Walk in the Woods
Scientists trying to build a better robot are encouraged by the latest steps, however tentative, of a humanoid named Atlas.
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AI Football Manager Knows How Different Teams Play the Game
Who really calls the shots in team sports?
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Cassini to Make Last Close Flyby of Saturn Moon Dione
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will zip past Saturn's moon Dione on Monday, Aug. 17—the final close flyby of this icy satellite during the spacecraft's long mission.
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'next Gen Stats' Offer New Insights For Nfl Fans and Coaches
As Richard Sherman sprints side-by-side with Calvin Johnson, who is running faster?
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A Machine in the Co-Pilot's Seat
Joel Walker, a test pilot for Aurora Flight Sciences, a maker of autonomous aircraft, flew his small, twin-engine plane through rain squalls here recently, and...
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