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3D Printers Tell You When Your Design Will Fail
Make a mistake with your average office printer and the worst that happens is a paper jam and some wasted ink. Do the same with a 3D printer, though, and your newly...
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Why Passwords Have Never Been Weaker—and Crackers Have Never Been Stronger
In late 2010, Sean Brooks received three e-mails over a span of 30 hours warning that his accounts on LinkedIn, Battle.net, and other popular Websites were at risk...
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Uc Research Promises Quiet Cars--Even When Hitting Unexpected Bumps in the Road
University of Cincinnati researchers have developed an adaptive, active algorithm that enables the deployment of a rapid-response sound wave that could counter...
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Nature: Electronic Read-Out of Quantum Bits
Magnetic molecule complexes may solve a dilemma for quantum computing, which would use quantum effects and also would be susceptible to external influences.
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Secrets Learned in Apple-Samsung Trial
When companies go to trial, as Apple and Samsung have learned, the public gets to hear corporate secrets. Among those revealed:
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Your Car, Tracked: The Rapid Rise of License Plate Readers
Tiburon, a small but wealthy town just northeast of the Golden Gate Bridge, has an unusual distinction: It was one of the first towns in the country to mount automated...
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Experts Hope to Shield Cars from Computer Viruses
A team of top hackers working for Intel Corp's security division toil away in a West Coast garage searching for electronic bugs that could make automobiles vulnerable...
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New Nasa Mission to Take First Look Deep Inside Mars
NASA has selected a new mission, set to launch in 2016, that will take the first look into the deep interior of Mars to see why the Red Planet evolved so differently...
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In Apple’s Patent Case, Tech Shifts May Follow
This week, nine jurors are expected to hunker down in a federal courthouse here to decide a case that could change how the world's smartphones and tablet computers...
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Wedding Digital With Traditional
MetaLAB at Harvard University's primary goal is to find new ways to access, annotate, remix, display, and share information from the humanities.
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Skilled Work, Without the Worker
A new wave of robots is replacing workers around the world in the manufacturing and distribution industries as many factories that utilize robots are becoming more...
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Your Life Is Fully Mobile
Just as remarkable as the power of mobility, over everything from love to learning to global development, is how fast it all happened. It is hard to think of any...
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New Wave of Adept Robots Is Changing Global Industry
At the Philips Electronics factory on the coast of China, hundreds of workers use their hands and specialized tools to assemble electric shavers. That is the old...
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Google's Dremel Makes Big Data Look Small
Mike Olson runs a company that specializes in the world’s hottest software. He's the CEO ofCloudera, a Silicon Valley startup that deals in Hadoop, an open source...
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Computing in the Net of Possibilities
A new information processing principle has been developed by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization.
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Cyberwars Reach a New Frontier: The Airport
It sounds like an air traveler's nightmare: a sophisticated software attack that allows hackers to access internal airport computer systems and manipulate data...
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Climate Science Triggers Torrent of Big Data Challenges
ORNL supercomputers running models to assess climate change ramifications and mitigation tactics are rapidly generating a wide variety of big data in vast volumes...
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Rover Reveals More of Martian Peak
Newly received images from NASA's Curiosity rover are filling out the high-resolution view of its surroundings at Gale Crater on Mars—and providing an up-close...
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Future of Data: Encoded in Dna
In the latest effort to contend with exploding quantities of digital data, researchers encoded an entire book into the genetic molecules of DNA, the basic building...
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