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How Do You Build a Large-Scale Quantum Computer?
Researchers have proposed a modular architecture that offers scalability to address the challenge of physically implementing a full-scale universal quantum computer...
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The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple
Shortly after Tim Cook succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple in August 2011, he told a confidant that he got up every morning reminding himself just to do the right...
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Rise of the Human Exoskeletons
On the outskirts of Pisa in a back room of a modern block, a machine is waiting for its operator.
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Report Calls for Better Backstops to Protect Power Grid From Cyberattacks
Despite increasing anxiety over the possibility of a cyberattack on the power grid, the U.S. energy industry and government are ill-equipped to counter the threat...
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What Do Data Brokers Know About Me?
I once ran into a friend and her husband at the playground in our neighborhood in Manhattan.
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Brands Take Advantage of Hci Technologies
Technologies demonstrated in motion pictures are coming to life for advertisers.
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Experts Urge Conservatism on Crypto Standards
Security people are, by nature, cautious and methodical, and that is even more true of cryptographers.
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Meet the Seven People Who Hold the Keys to Worldwide Internet Security
In a nondescript industrial estate in El Segundo, a boxy suburb in south-west Los Angeles just a mile or two from LAX international airport, 20 people wait in a...
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Hackers Allegedly Stole $400 Million in Bitcoins. Here's How to Catch Them.
On Friday, what had been the world's leading Bitcoin exchange declared bankrutpcy, claiming that hackers had exploited a technical issue called "transaction malleability...
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Mobile Voting Systems Potentially Better Than Electronic Ones: Study
Rice University researchers have designed a mobile voting system optimized for use on smartphones and have tested it against traditional voting platforms.
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Phone's Wi-Fi Hotspot Acts as Sos Beacon in Disasters
A new app turns a smartphone into a wireless SOS beacon that could help rescuers find people who have been trapped in collapsed buildings.
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Battery-Free Technology Brings Gesture Recognition to All Devices
A new gesture-recognition system runs without batteries and enables gesture control for electronic devices that are hidden from sight.
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The Mammoth Cometh
The first time Ben Novak saw a passenger pigeon, he fell to his knees and remained in that position, speechless, for 20 minutes.
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Xi Jinping Leads Internet Security Group
President Xi Jinping will head the central Internet security and informatization leading group, according to a statement released after the first meeting of the...
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Autonomous Drones Flock Like Birds
A Hungarian team has created the first drones that can fly as a coordinated flock.
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New Map of Twitterverse Finds 6 Types of Networks
Researchers have found most of the information being discussed on Twitter falls into six distinct patterns or networks.
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How an nlikely Group of High-Tech Wizards Revived Obama's Troubled Healthcare.gov Website
Last Oct. 17—more than two weeks after the launch of HealthCare.gov—White House chief of staff Denis McDonough came back from Baltimore rattled by what he had learned...
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An Artificial Hand with Real Feeling
Igor Spetic's hand was in a fist when it was severed by a forging hammer three years ago as he made an aluminum jet part at his job.
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The Spy Tech That Might Have Kept El Chapo Invisible For So Long
Joaquin Guzman, better known by the nickname "El Chapo," didn't get to be one of the world's most notorious and elusive drug lords without knowing a thing or two...
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