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Forget Wearable Tech, Embeddable Implants Are Already Here
Smartphone mapping features are great for getting directions, until you lose signal.
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Stanford Medical Technology Exposes Hidden Maladies of Sculptor Auguste Rodin's Celebrated Hands
One has a ganglion cyst.
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Exotic Space Particles Slam Into Buried South Pole Detector
A belowground experiment at the South Pole has now discovered three of the highest-energy neutrinos ever found, particles that may be created in the most violent...
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Three Questions For Eugene Kaspersky
The Moscow-based computer security firm Kaspersky Lab has analyzed major new kinds of malware, including Stuxnet, which four years ago was revealed to have damaged...
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Call of Cyber Duty: Military Academies Take on Nsa
If Douglas MacArthur or Ulysses S. Grant went to the U.S. Military Academy today, they might be testing their defensive skills hunched in front of a computer screen...
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Hard Disk Pioneer Stuart Parkin Wins Millennium Prize
Prof Stuart Parkin developed a type of data-reading head capable of detecting weaker and smaller signals than had previously been possible.
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New 'switch' Could Power Quantum Computing
Using a laser to place individual rubidium atoms near the surface of a lattice of light, scientists at MIT and Harvard University have developed a new method for...
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Supreme Court Weighing When Online Speech Becomes Illegal Threat
When does an online threat become worthy of criminal prosecution?
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How the U.s. Built the World's Most Ridiculously Accurate Atomic Clock
Throw out that lame old atomic clock that's only accurate to a few tens of quadrillionths of a second.
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Sri Wearable Robots Make Soldiers Better, Stronger, Faster
In the heart of Silicon Valley, lining the wall in one of the world’s most advanced robotics labs, is a row of sewing machines.
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Twitter Is Surprisingly Accurate at Predicting Unemployment
Twitter is full of relative junk: tweets you don't want to read from people you're not all that interested in knowing, almost all of them chiming in on topics (see ...
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Data Mining Uncovers 19th Century Britain's Fat Habit
The Trading Consequences project has produced new insight into how fat became a worldwide commodity.
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The Bug that Rocked the Foundations of the Web
Late on Monday afternoon, the details of one of the most serious security problems to ever affect the modern web were posted online.
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Hackers Lurking in Vents and Soda Machines
They came in through the Chinese takeout menu.
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Steve Matteson: Fonts in the Time of Wearables
As gadgets get smaller, and mobile manufacturers find new ways to shrink their devices to fit on a user's wrist, people like Steve Matteson are focused on keeping...
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High-Tech Items Giving Deaf-Blind Online Access
Tanisha Verdejo loves to surf the Internet for shopping deals. She chats on Facebook, learns about new recipes and enjoys sending emails to friends and family.
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5 Biometric Alternatives to the Password
There are many things that make you special: Your sense of humor, your dance moves, your personal style, the shape of your ear.
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As Human Laws Grapple with Robots, There Are No Easy Answers
There's been a lot of buzz about robots lately.
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