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Gesture Control System Uses Sound Alone
When you learned about the Doppler Effect in high school physics class—the wave frequency shift that occurs when the source of the wave is moving, easily illustrated...
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Objects Know How They Are Being Touched
A doorknob that knows whether to lock or unlock based on how it is grasped, a smartphone that silences itself if the user holds a finger to her lips, and a chair...
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A Brief History of Warnings About the Demise of Moore's Law
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku rekindled a perennial discussion last week by saying Moore's Law, the pacesetter of technological advancement over the last half...
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Hovering Drones Flock Together Using 3D Vision
If you're going to have a group of drones flying around each other, it would probably be wise to have each of them know where the other is.
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What Makes Heroic Strife
For the past decade or so, generals commanding the world's most advanced armies have been able to rely on accurate forecasts of the outcomes of conventional battles...
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Research Breakthrough Takes Supercomputing Out of the Lab
University of Toronto researchers have developed a system that they say will make the production of a special class of photons used in supercomputing faster and...
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London 2012: The Importance of Olympic Timekeeping
Olympic timekeepers Omega are unveiling the latest technology that will be used at the London 2012 Games. It can monitor athletes' performance to the nearest one...
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Moore's Law Lives Another Day
"[Gordon] Moore is my boss, and if your boss makes a law, then you'd better follow it," says Mark Bohr, who leads Intel's efforts to make advances in microchip...
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Amateur Astronomers Scour the Sky For Government Secrets
Earlier this year Iran's defense minister put the world on notice: His nation had developed the ability to "easily" watch spacewalking astronauts from the ground...
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Data Engineer in Google Case Is Identified
At the center of the uproar over a Google project that scooped up personal data from potentially millions of unsuspecting people is the company software engineer...
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'bullet Time' to Stop Cyber Attacks on Power Grids
In The Matrix, the famous "bullet time" effect showed how Keanu Reeves's character Neo was able to sway out of the path of incoming bullets, as time appeared to...
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California Chosen as Home for Computing Institute
The Simons Foundation, which specializes in science and math research, has chosen the University of California, Berkeley, as host for an ambitious new center for...
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Web War Ii: What a Future Cyberwar Will Look Like
How might the blitzkrieg of the future arrive? By air strike? An invading army? In a terrorist's suitcase? In fact it could be coming down the line to a computer...
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Nhtsa Testing V2v Communication Systems, Considering Requiring Technology on New Cars
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration wants to ramp up the development and deployment of vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems, and the federal...
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CLA Researchers Combat Global Disease With a Cell Phone, Google Maps and a Lot of Ingenuity
UCLA researchers say they have developed a compact and cost-effective rapid diagnostic test-reading device that works with standard cell phones.
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Esnet Launches Architecture to Help Researchers Deliver on Data-Intensive Science
Key to the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Sciences Network's effort to supply reliable high-bandwidth network services to thousands of scientists to manage...
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Smartphone Patent Wars: The Coming Sequel
Billions of dollars are being spent to amass patent arsenals, and lawsuits are flying worldwide.
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Iranian Oil Ministry Discovers Hackers' Target
The Iranian oil ministry's cyber team has identified the main and hidden agenda of the recent cyber attack on the ministry, a senior Iranian official announced...
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