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Australia Plans New Co-Ordinates to Fix Sat-Nav Gap
Australia is to shift its longitude and latitude to address a gap between local co-ordinates and those from global navigation satellite systems (GNSS).
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Facebook's Really Big Plans For Virtual Reality
The office building on Facebook Way is in the unfinished style that honors materials like plywood, concrete, and steel.
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Computer Model Predicts How People Perceive Softness of 3D Printed Objects
Researchers have developed a method to predict perceived softness and stiffness of three-dimensionally printed objects.
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Homeowners' Groups Fill .s. Last-Mile Broadband Gap
Private homeowners associations are sidestepping incumbents by contracting with alternative network providers.
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Baidu ses Millions of sers' Location Data to Make Predictions
Baidu, China's internet giant, has shown what you can learn when you have access to enough location data.
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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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Radio Hack Steals Keystrokes from Millions of Wireless Keyboards
You should be able to trust your wireless keyboard.
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Consumers and 3D Printing: The Future
The market, currently dominated by professional and hobbyist makers, could be changing.
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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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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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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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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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Computer Scientists Find Way to Make All That Glitters More Realistic in Computer Graphics
A new algorithm promises to make the surfaces of a wide range of materials look a lot more realistic.
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Transistors Will Stop Shrinking in 2021, but Moore's Law Will Live On
Transistors will stop shrinking after 2021, but Moore's law will probably continue, according to the final International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)...
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Chinese Scientists to Pioneer First Human Crispr Trial
Chinese scientists are on the verge of being first in the world to inject people with cells modified using the CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing technique.
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