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Chinese Satellite Is One Giant Step For the Quantum Internet
China is poised to launch the world's first satellite designed to do quantum experiments. A fleet of quantum-enabled craft is likely to follow.
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Stitching a Drone's View of the World Into 3d Maps as It Flies
When you're buzzing through the air at 60 kilometres per hour, it can be hard to take in the view. But now drones can create highly detailed 3D maps as they fly...
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Physicists Find a Way of 'bundling Together' Multiple Elements of a Quantum Computer
Physicists have discovered a way of using multilevel quantum systems, each of which is capable of working with multiple "conventional" quantum elements.
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pcoming Tor Design Battles Hidden Services Snooping
Tor project representatives say malicious Tor Hidden Services Directories will be addressed in an upcoming redesign, and are only an "annoyance" in the meantime...
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New Movie Screen Allows For Glasses-Free 3D at a Larger Scale
Researchers have demonstrated a display on which audiences can watch three-dimensional films in a movie theater without additional eyewear.
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Rosetta Finale Set For 30 September
Rosetta is set to complete its mission in a controlled descent to the surface of its comet on 30 September.
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Meet Luca, the Ancestor of All Living Things
A surprisingly specific genetic portrait of the ancestor of all living things has been generated by scientists who say that the likeness sheds considerable light...
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Radio Hack Steals Keystrokes from Millions of Wireless Keyboards
You should be able to trust your wireless keyboard.
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Scientists Work Toward Storing Digital Information in Dna
Scientists are exploring the potential of custom-built DNA as a long-term data storage solution.
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Scientists Program Cells to Remember and Respond to Series of Stimuli
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have used synthetic biology to program cells to remember and respond to a series of events.
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Single Camera Can Capture High Quality Facial Performance
Researchers have developed a method of using one camera to obtain facial performance capture, a key component of visual effects for movies and computer games.
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Americans Are Wary About Body-Enhancement Technologies
Emerging technologies that draw from biomedical technology, nanotechnology, information technology and other fields are developing at a rapid pace and may lead...
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Feds Want to se Your Fingerprints to Open Iphones. Why Isn't It Working?
A single sentence was all that was needed to detail the results of a search warrant executed last month on a cell phone in Texas: "Unable to obtain forensic aquisition...
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Smartphone Apps For Social Good
Mobile apps make it easier, faster, and cheaper to create massive impact on social causes ranging from world hunger to domestic violence.
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Open Source Software No Longer Optional
Open development and sharing of software gained widespread acceptance 15 years ago, and the practice is accelerating.
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They Promised S Jet Packs. They Promised the Bosses Profit.
Project Foghorn is one of those straight-from-science-fiction concepts we've come to expect from Alphabet, the sprawling conglomerate formerly known as Google.
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Error Fix For Long-Lived Qubits Brings Quantum Computers Nearer
Researchers at Yale University have achieved a 20-fold increase in quantum bit lifetime.
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Microsoft's President Explains the Company's Quiet Legal War For ser Privacy
Apple's legal battle over encryption dominated headlines earlier this year, but another tech giant is fighting a quieter legal war over user privacy: Microsoft....
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Researchers Invent 'smart' Thread That Collects Diagnostic Data When Sutured Into Tissue
Researchers have integrated sensors, electronics, and microfluidics into threads that can be sutured through multiple layers of tissue to gather diagnostic data...
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