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Computational Photography: The Snap Is Only the Start
Imagine a camera that allows you to see through a crowd to get a clear view of someone who would otherwise be obscured, a smartphone that matches big-budget lenses...
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Researchers Find Bug Bounty Programs Pay Economic Rewards
Bug bounty programs can be as much as 100 times more cost-effective for finding security vulnerabilities than hiring full-time security researchers to do the same...
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Modest Debut of Atlas May Foreshadow Age of 'robo Sapiens'
Moving its hands as if it were dealing cards and walking with a bit of a swagger, a Pentagon-financed humanoid robot named Atlas made its first public appearance...
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5d Optical Memory in Nanostructured Quartz Glass Could Lead to nlimited Lifetime Data Storage
Researchers have experimentally demonstrated the recording and retrieval process of five-dimensional digital data in nanostructured glass by femtosecond laser writing...
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Graphene May Give US Cooler, Longer-Lasting Computers
Cooling is an important and tricky part of modern computing—you don't want those ever-more-functional processors overheating, but you also don't want the cooling...
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Touchscreens 'a Small Step' in Innovation
The way we use digital devices has become big news.
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Nasa's Opals to Beam Data From Space Via Laser
NASA will use the International Space Station to test a new communications technology that could dramatically improve spacspacecraft communications, enhance commercial...
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Kremlin Returns to Typewriters to Avoid Computer Leaks
A source at Russia's Federal Guard Service, which is in charge of safeguarding Kremlin communications and protecting President Vladimir Putin, claimed that the...
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Human Motion Will Power the Internet of Things, Say Energy Harvesting Engineers
The Internet of Things is the imagined network of data links that will emerge when everyday objects are fitted with tiny identifying devices.
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Toward Tinier Transistors
Researchers are studying how to make the next generation of transistors smaller.
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Powerful Animal Tracking System Helps Research Take Flight
The new Environmental-Data Automated Track Annotation system enables users to take a big data approach to tracking birds.
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Researchers Build an All-Optical Transistor
Researchers have created an optical switch that’s controlled by a single photon.
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Iran Planning Cyber Drills
Head of Iran's Civil Defense Organization Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali announced on Saturday that Iran plans to stage cyber exercises in the near future...
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Parts Installed 'upside Down' Caused Russian Rocket to Explode Last Week
While America was looking forward to the July 4 holiday, the Russian space program was busy putting the final touches on its latest rocket launch.
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Touch Screens Are Tested For Piloting Passenger Jets
As Denis Bonnet slipped into the right-hand seat of a commercial jet demonstrator in the airliner cockpit design center here at Thales, the French electronics group...
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Science Team Outlines Goals for NASA's 2020 Mars Rover
The rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 should look for signs of past life, collect samples for possible future return to Earth, and demonstrate technology for...
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Device Physics: Simulating Electronic Smog
A new mathematical model can rapidly and accurately estimate electromagnetic emissions from printed circuitboards.
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Birmingham Amps Up Research With New Linux Supercomputer
University of Birmingham researchers are ready to launch the second generation of Linux supercomputer BlueBEAR.
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Researchers Recreate Photosynthesis to Power Devices
Artificial photosynthesis could lead to an alternative to gasoline, to ultradense computer memories, or to highly efficient solar cells.
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