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A Tour of Bletchley Park: Codebreaking that Helped Win Wwii, and the Birthplace of the Modern Computer
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A Tour of Bletchley Park: Codebreaking that Helped Win Wwii, and the Birthplace of the Modern Computer

MI6 called it Station X.

Robot Linda Will Mingle With Visitors at the Natural History Museum
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Robot Linda Will Mingle With Visitors at the Natural History Museum

A specialist mobile robot named Linda will interact with the public at the Natural History Museum in London during Universities Week 2014. 

Brokers ­se 'billions' of Data Points to Profile Americans
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Brokers ­se 'billions' of Data Points to Profile Americans

Are you a financially strapped working mother who smokes?

Going Dark: The Internet Behind the Internet
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Going Dark: The Internet Behind the Internet

The average computer user with an Internet connection has access to an amazing wealth of information. But there's also an entire world that's invisible to your...

How Darpa's Augmented Reality Software Works
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How Darpa's Augmented Reality Software Works

Six years ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) decided that they had a new dream. The agency wanted a system that would overlay digital tactical...

A Major Mystery Behind Microsoft's 'brain-Like' Speech-to-Speech Translator
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A Major Mystery Behind Microsoft's 'brain-Like' Speech-to-Speech Translator

New speech-to-speech translation technology from Microsoft becomes better at learning a language as it learns additional languages. 

Experimental Google Smartphone Becomes Brain of Space Robot
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Experimental Google Smartphone Becomes Brain of Space Robot

Robots excel at the tedious, repetitive tasks that bore humans into ineffectiveness.

Can Killer Robots Learn to Follow the Rules of War?
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Can Killer Robots Learn to Follow the Rules of War?

As Memorial Day reminds us every year, war doesn't go away.

­sing Thoughts to Control Airplanes
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­sing Thoughts to Control Airplanes

Pilots of the future could be able to control their aircraft by merely thinking commands.

Google's 'quantum Computing Playground' Lets You Fiddle With Quantum Algorithms
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Google's 'quantum Computing Playground' Lets You Fiddle With Quantum Algorithms

Google has released a new Web-based integrated development environment that enables users to experiment with quantum algorithms. 

Mint Program Helps Pinpoint Threats Contained in Intelligence Data
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Mint Program Helps Pinpoint Threats Contained in Intelligence Data

Researchers are working to improve the capabilities of the U.S. Multi-Disciplinary Intelligence system, which monitors incoming intelligence data.

Google's Next Phase in Driverless Cars: No Brakes or Steering Wheel
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Google's Next Phase in Driverless Cars: No Brakes or Steering Wheel

Humans might be the one problem Google can't solve.

Skinny Wormholes Could Send Messages Through Time
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Skinny Wormholes Could Send Messages Through Time

Like some bizarre form of optical fibre, a long, thin wormhole might let you send messages through time using pulses of light.

'smart Pills' with Chips, Cameras, and Robotic Parts Raise Legal, Ethical Questions
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'smart Pills' with Chips, Cameras, and Robotic Parts Raise Legal, Ethical Questions

Each morning around 6, Mary Ellen Snodgrass swallows a computer chip.

Screening For Autism: There's an App For That
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Screening For Autism: There's an App For That

New software tracks and records infants' activity during videotaped autism screening tests. 

Mit Figures Out How to Give the Moon Broadband--Using Lasers
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Mit Figures Out How to Give the Moon Broadband--Using Lasers

Researchers have developed a system that can give a satellite orbiting the moon faster Internet access than many U.S. homes get. 

Swarm and Fuzzy
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Swarm and Fuzzy

When the first human colonists land on Mars several decades from now, their habitat will already be waiting.

B-52 Bomber Gets Its First New Communications System Since the 1960s
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B-52 Bomber Gets Its First New Communications System Since the 1960s

The B-52 bomber, one of the great stalwarts of America's military arsenal, is getting its first major communications system upgrade since the Kennedy administration...

Tracking Lost Luggage Part of At&t's Vision of the Future
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Tracking Lost Luggage Part of At&t's Vision of the Future

AT&T has demonstrated its User-Defined Network Cloud and other innovative technologies that could soon be available. 

Despite Data Thefts, the Password Endures
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Despite Data Thefts, the Password Endures

Efforts to replace passwords with better protections face an uphill battle.
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