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Rosetta Comet Fires Its Jets
The four images that make up a new montage of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko were taken on September 26, 2014 by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft...
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The npatchable Malware That Infects sbs Is Now on the Loose
It's been just two months since researcher Karsten Nohl demonstrated an attack he called BadUSB to a standing-room-only crowd at the Black Hat security conference...
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Quantum Bits Get Their First Compression
Without algorithms that compress data to encode information into fewer bits, hard drives would clog up and Internet traffic would slow to a snail's pace.
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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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Minority Languages: Cookies, Caches and Cows
The nonprofit Mozilla foundation is seeking to give more users of its open source Web browser the option of a device that speaks their language.
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Internet of Things Gets a Hand from Arm's New Operating System
Desktops have Linux. Mobile devices have Android. The Internet of Things has...Mbed?
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What It Will Take For Computers to Be Conscious
Is a worm conscious? How about a bumblebee? Does a computer that can play chess "feel" anything?
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Nasa Mission Points to Origin of 'ocean of Storms' on Earth's Moon
Using data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL), mission scientists have solved a lunar mystery almost as old as the moon itself.
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Obama's Brain Project Backs Neurotechnology
The White House said that President Obama's BRAIN Initiative is generating interest from companies and philanthropies in a sign of what it calls a wider partnership...
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Walter Isaacson on the Women of Eniac
Ever since the days of Charles Babbage, who conceived of a giant mechanical calculator called the Analytical Engine in the 1830s, the engineering of computer hardware...
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Simulation Technology Designed For Hollywood Can Be Used as Predictive Tool For Understanding Fundamental Engineering
Software developed to help Hollywood create better virtual hair may be used to study the properties of filamentary structures like oceanic telecommunication cables...
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'glass Brain' Offers Tours of the Space Between Your Ears
Former Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart takes pride in his brain.
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The Google Formula For Success
Can Google’s winning ways be applied to all kinds of businesses?
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Companies Rush to Fix Shellshock Software Bug as Hackers Launch Thousands of Attacks
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security last week warned about the newly discovered Shellshock bug affecting a widely used Bash Unix shell.
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Hong Kong Protesters se a Mesh Network to Organise
Hong Kong's mass protest is networked. Activists are relying on a free app that can send messages without any cellphone connection.
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Radio Waves Offer Cheap Gesture Detection on Smartphones
A research project at the University of Washington shows a way to add gesture control to phones without requiring sophisticated new sensors.
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A Computer Scientist Tells Mathematicians How To Write Proofs
Believe it or not, I do have friends who would describe themselves as not liking math, and every so often one of them will share this meme on Facebook: And then...
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Shellshock: 'deadly Serious' New Vulnerability Found
A "deadly serious" bug potentially affecting hundreds of millions of computers, servers and devices has been discovered.
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