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Smartphone Sensors Reveal Security Secrets
Data captured by smartphone sensors could help criminals guess codes used to lock the gadgets, say security researchers.
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MIT Researchers Improve Quantum-Dot Performance
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a process that produces quantum dots that are uniform in size and shape, give off brightView...
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Phreaks and Geeks
One of the most heartfelt—and unexpected—remembrances of Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide last month at the age of 26, came from Yale professor Edward Tufte.
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Broad Powers Seen For Obama in Cyberstrikes
A secret legal review on the use of America's growing arsenal of cyberweapons has concluded that President Obama has the broad power to order a pre-emptive strike...
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Intel, niversities Are Working on Transformable Cpus
Processors that change configuration depending on workload to greatly increase central-processing unit (CPU) performance and energy efficiency are the focus ofView...
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Drone Boosters Say Farmers, Not Cops, Are the Biggest .s. Robot Market
When the flying robots that loiter in Afghanistan's and Yemen's airspace come home, they won't just be headed for the local police station.
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Drone Home
A few months ago I borrowed a drone from a company called Parrot. Officially the drone is called an AR.Drone 2.0, but for simplicity's sake, we're just going to...
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Palm-Size Nano-Copter Is the Afghanistan War's Latest Spy Drone
British troops in Afghanistan are flying a drone that’s shrunk down to its essentials: a micro-machine that spies, built for a solitary user.
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Meet the Data Brains Behind the Rise of Facebook
Jay Parikh sits at a desk inside Building 16 at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and his administrative assistant, Genie Samuel, sits next to...
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Behind the Scenes of Latin America's Internet 'brain'
It may be one of central Miami's most recognisable buildings, yet only a few people know what goes on inside the sturdy concrete block with massive spheres on its...
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Irgc Official: Iran Enjoys 4th Biggest Cyber Army in World
Iran enjoys the world's fourth biggest cyber army, an official of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps announced on Saturday, stressing that the IRGC's power is...
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Once Blackberry Focused, a Campus Widens Its View
The University of Waterloo, in a city that people outside Canada would struggle to find on a map, is one of the world’s best technology schools.
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New Research May Extend Integrated Circuit Battery Life Tenfold
Researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Sematech, and Texas State University built and tested vertical Esaki tunnel diodes smaller than 120 nanometers...
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What It Really Takes to Make a Flexible Phone
Had Dr. Dipak Chowdhury known just how accident-prone I really am, he never would have handed over the 0.1-millimeter sheet of glass for me to bend between my fingers...
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Eric Schmidt nloads on China in New Book
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is brutally clear: China is the most dangerous superpower on Earth.
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Scan May Detect Signs of Nfl Players' Brain Disease
An insidious, microscopic protein that has been found in the brain tissue of professional football players after death may now be detectable in living people by...
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Experts Discuss the Future of Supercomputers
Science Live recently hosted an online chat with University of Tennessee professor Jack Dongarra and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory deputy director Horst...
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3-D Microchip Created
University of Cambridge researchers have developed a type of microchip based on spintronics that allows information to travel in three dimensions.
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