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DARPA Seeks to Learn From Social For Warfare
The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency has launched the Social Media in Strategic Communication program, which aims to develop...
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Robots Use Kinect to Understand Our World
Cornell University researchers are teaching robots to understand the context of their surroundings so that they can pick out individual objects in a room.
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Discovery May Overcome Obstacle For Quantum Computing: Ubc, California Researchers
Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the University of California, Santa Barbara say they have made a major advance in predicting and eliminating...
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Nasa's Next Mars Rover to Land at Gale Crater
NASA's next Mars rover will land at the foot of a layered mountain inside the planet's Gale crater. The car-sized Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity, is scheduled...
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Smartphones Get Smarter About Payments
Paying for the morning commute will soon be accomplished by the wave of a smartphone. State and local governments are joining Internet, credit card, and wireless...
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Machines to Compare Notes Online?
Autonomous machines, networks, and robots should publish their own suggestions for upgrading the technology on the Internet, says the University of Southampton's...
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Nasa Dawn Spacecraft Returns Close-Up Image of Asteroid Vesta
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has returned the first close-up image after beginning its orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta. On Friday, July 15, Dawn became the first...
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Microsoft Opens Garage to Spark Innovation
It's typical for Microsoft to show off its latest wares at its annual Worldwide Partner Conference, if only to amp up partners' enthusiasm for hawking the software...
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Supercomputing's Exaflop Target
The twin challenges of parallelism and energy consumption are enlivening supercomputers' progress.
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Old Dominion U. Professor Is Trying to Save Internet History
Researchers at Old Dominion University and Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed Memento, browser-based software that can find a Web site as it appeared...
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Who Needs Humans?
Amid all the job losses of the Great Recession, there is one category of worker that the economic disruption has been good for: nonhumans.
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How to Be in Two Places at the Same Time
An ambitious experiment to make a glass sphere exist in two places at once could provide the most sensitive test of quantum theory yet.
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Physicists Take Steps Toward Delivering Quantum Information to the Home
Today, fiber optics technology transports information in the form of classical data to homes and businesses. But researchers are currently working on ways to...
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The Truth About Nasa's Space Tech Spinoffs
Tang. Velcro. Teflon. Each is popularly known as a product of the space age, and yet none of them represent actual NASA tech spinoffs. The real truth behind the...
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The Ghost Space Shuttle: Nasa Ship in Houston For Every Mission
For 30 years, every time a space shuttle has flown, so has OV-095, the ghost orbiter.
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Nasa Spacecraft to Enter Large Asteroid's Orbit on July 15
On July 15, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will begin a prolonged encounter with the asteroid Vesta, making the mission the first to enter orbit around a main-belt asteroid...
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Ict and Automotive: New App Reduces Motorway Pile-ps By 40 Percent
University of Bologna researchers have developed an automatic car accident detection system that could reduce the number of vehicles involved in a crash by up to...
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In Search of a Robot More Like S
The robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks often begins speeches by reaching into his pocket, fiddling with some loose change, finding a quarter, pulling it out and twirling...
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