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Movement in Space
Microsoft's drive to integrate Kinect technology into a wide array of products is not slowing.
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Russia Blames Mars Probe Failure on Space Radiation
Russia blamed radiation on Tuesday for a computer glitch that doomed its Mars moon mission, but space industry experts cast doubt on the findings of an investigation...
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New Breed of Electron Interactions in Quantum Systems
University of New South Wales scientists have published research suggesting that quantum electronics could be driven by the orbital nature of electrons, and not...
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Apple Introduces S to the Wild World of Coded Magnets
Once in a while we're treated to a new Apple invention that virtually contains a new self-contained world of possibilities and vocabulary to enrich it.
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Pinch-Screen Puts All Your Fingers in Control
Tablet computers and smartphones are designed to be used by a person's thumbs, but a new device developed by the Technical University of Berlin's Katrin Wolf enables...
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Researchers Devise New Means For Creating Elastic Conductors
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a method for creating elastic conductors made of carbon nanotubes, which they say could lead to the large...
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Researchers Corral Chip Power-Performance Requirements
Researchers are exploring ways to improve the energy efficiency of microprocessor hardware and software as next-generation chips and languages grow even more power...
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Intel Sees Exabucks in Supercomputing's Future
Last Monday, Intel shelled out $125 million to buy Infiniband from Qlogic, a little-known maker of data-center networking switches and cards. At first blush, it...
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Pursuing Iphone Thief, Officer Knew Right Buttons to Push
As crime-solving tools go, it may not have the same pedigree as, say, the oversize magnifying glass.
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Humans Lose, Robots Win in New Defense Budget
The big loser in the Pentagon’s new budget? Ordinary human beings.
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Smallest-Ever Nanotube Transistors Outperform Silicon
IBM researchers have developed a nine-nanometer carbon-nanotube transistor that performs better than any other transistor at its size.
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Durable Nasa Rover Beginning Ninth Year of Mars Work
Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA's enduring Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is working on what essentially...
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10k Reasons to Worry About Critical Infrastructure
A security researcher was able to locate and map more than 10,000 industrial control systems hooked up to the public internet, including water and sewage plants...
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MIT Genius Stuffs 100 Processors Into Single Chip
Anant Agarwal, director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, recently launched Tilera, a company that specializes in squeezing cores...
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Strongest Solar Radiation Storm Since September 2005 Could Reach Earth Today
The sun erupted late on January 22, 2012 with an M8.7 class flare, an earth-directed coronal mass ejection, and a burst of fast moving, highly energetic protons...
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Open-Source Surgical Robot Fuels niversity Research
U.S. researchers have developed a new, open source robot — said to be the first of its kind — that is now facilitating robotic laparoscopic surgery research at...
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Sebastian Thrun Resigns from Stanford to Launch dacity
Professor Sebastian Thrun has given up his Stanford position to start Udacity—an online educational venture. Udacity's first two free courses are Building a Search...
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When Self-Driving Cars and the Real World Collide
Even as Google tests its small fleet of self-driving vehicles on California highways, legal scholars and government officials are warning that society has only...
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