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Paypal's $100,000 Battle Hack Competition Wants Cool Social Apps
In PayPal's software-coding competition, Battle Hack, software developers vie to create a socially beneficial application that uses PayPal payment processing.
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Nasa Spacecraft Sees Tornado's Destructive Swath
A new image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the extent of destruction...
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Nsa Collecting Phone Records of Millions of Verizon Customers Daily
The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers,...
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Wisee ses Wi-Fi Signals to Recognize Body Gestures
Researchers say they have found a way to detect and recognize human gestures based on how they affect Wi-Fi signals.
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They're Coming for Your DNA
DNA analysis is the major crime-solving advance of our time.
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Mit's Magic Bag Of Sand
The camera pushes in. And there, near the meridian line, you see a faint scattering of red lights. Something is in the tar. And it's glowing.
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Fixing America's Patent Problem Means Going Beyond Trolls
The so-called patent troll has become one of the tech industry’s favorite monsters in recent years, and on Tuesday the Obama administration announced it would ...
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This Man Is Not a Cyborg. Yet.
Get right up close to Dmitry Itskov and sniff all you like—you will not pick up even the faintest hint of crazy.
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A Camera Without a Lens (and a Sensor the Size of a Pixel)
Cameras as we know them have long been eye-like: a lens captures light and focuses it on film or a detection sensor, just as the lenses in our eyes focus light...
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The Next Frontier of Wireless Tech? Your Body
A miniaturized version of sonar technology will be applied inside the human body, to treat diseases in real time.
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Tingly Projections Make Beamed Gadgets Come Alive
Researchers have developed a system that can beam the outline of computer keyboards or cellphones onto any surface, including the hand.
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Presidential Candidate: .s., Israel Wary of Iran's Cyber Power
Supreme Leader's top aide Ali Akbar Velayati, who is also a candidate in Iran's presidential election, hailed the Iranian IT engineers and experts for their good...
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Hack a Virus, Win a Prize: Scientist Recognized For 'useful' Germ Modding
The inventor of a viral technology behind tomorrow's electric car batteries, flexible touchscreen computers, and non-invasive cancer screening was awarded a $500...
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Let's Play: Making Travel a Game
It was a Sunday afternoon in SoHo and while most New Yorkers were having brunch, Makeda Peters and her boyfriend were on a street corner craning their necks at...
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Is Coding the New Second Language?
It's first period at Harlem's Cristo Rey high school, a private Catholic school for motivated low-income kids.
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Sri International Is an Innovation Powerhouse Trying to Rise Above the Noise of Apple, Google, and Facebook
When Intel worried years ago that its marvelous innovation wasn't being noticed by consumers-at-large, it launched the ubiquitous "Intel Inside" campaign.
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Nasa's Grail Mission Solves Mystery of Moon's Surface Gravity
NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has uncovered the origin of massive invisible regions that make the moon's gravity uneven, a phenomenon...
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'blue Waters' Supercomputer Helps Crack Hiv Code
Researchers used the Blue Waters supercomputer to discover the structure of the HIV capsid.
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ssr's Old Domain Name Attracts Cybercriminals
The Soviet Union disappeared from the map more than two decades ago. But online an 'e-vil empire' is thriving.
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