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The Nba Will Now Track Every Player's Movements
The National Basketball Association announced a contract with sports information company Stats to install player-tracking camera systems in every arena beginning...
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The New Era of Toy Robotics
In olden times, the most an ambitious young tinkerer could hope for in a toy was to be able to stick one funny-shaped piece onto another. Kids built airplanes with...
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md Engineering Group on Cutting Edge in Car Safety
Researchers have developed programming that will give drivers instant information on what lies ahead of them on the road.
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In The World: Mapping the Logistics of Megacities
Logistics data on neighborhoods in several world cities is available online in an open-access pool of information that is graphically represented on city maps.
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Beyond Passwords: New Tools to Identify Humans
As everything around us becomes connected to the Internet, from cars to thermometers to the stuff inside our mobile phones, technologists are confronting a tough...
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Nsa Surveillance Makes For Strange Bedfellows
The controversy over U.S. government surveillance has produced a king-size collection of strange bedfellows. Beneath the covers one finds both amusing ironies and...
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A Peek nder the Hood at the Brains of Self-Driving Cars
What car maker today doesn't seem to have an autonomous car bumbling around its test lot?
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Why Bluetooth se Is On the Rise
Bluetooth has been with us for around 15 years. Named after Denmark's King Harald "Bluetooth" Blatand, who reigned in the first century AD, it is a technology that...
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Terramechanics Research Aims to Keep Mars Rovers Rolling
In May 2009, the Mars rover Spirit cracked through a crusty layer of Martian topsoil, sinking into softer underlying sand.
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Penn Develops Computer Model That Will Help Design Flexible Touchscreens
Researchers have developed a method for designing transparent conductors using metal nanowires that could result in less expensive and more flexible touchscreens...
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The Smoke Alarm in Your Pocket and Other Winning Apps
One of the winners of Australia's Apps4Broadband competition is a Web-based app that enables tutors to teach students remotely.
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The Big Data Employment Boom
Big data has been favorably cast as "the new oil" and held up as the economic counterweight to America's sinking manufacturing sector.
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How the N.S.A Cracked the Web
It's been nearly three months since Edward Snowden started telling the world about the National Security Agency's mass surveillance of global communications.
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Intel's Laser Chips Could Make Data Centers Run Better
Intel hopes to make computing far more efficient by introducing a technology that replaces conventional copper data cables with faster optical data links.
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This Augmented-Reality Sandbox Turns Dirt Into a i
We've seen how kids take to touchscreens. To them, our unfathomably sophisticated smartphones and tablets are about as hard to figure out as a bucket full of blocks...
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Huge Botnet Found sing Tor Network For Communications
In the wake of the revelations surrounding the NSA's domestic surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations, security experts said there would likely be a...
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Quantum Chip Connected to Internet Is Yours to Command
University of Bristol researchers have brought quantum computing to the cloud, enabling anyone with a Web browser to be able to log in and run basic algorithms...
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Internet Needs 'cyber Fire Department' to Protect Web Users, Claims Vint Cerf
The Internet needs a cyber fire department to keep risks found on websites and services from spreading, says Google chief Internet evangelist and ACM president...
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Gaming Improves Multitasking Skills
Sixty-five-year-old Ann Linsey was starting to worry about how easily she got distracted from whatever she was doing.
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