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Why Mh370 Could Still Talk to Satellites After Its Other Comms Went Dark
It's the latest mystery in the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Was a key communications system on board the plane disabled before or after the co-pilot calmly...
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Nasa Historic Earth Images Still Hold Research Value
NASA's Seasat satellite became history long ago, but it left a legacy of images of Earth's ocean, volcanoes, forests and other features that were made by the first...
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Obama Creates Climate Tool With Google, Others
The White House has announced its Climate Data Initiative, through which it will partner with organizations to create tools to help communities adapt to climate...
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Jonathan Ive Designs Tomorrow
We use Jonathan Ive's products to help us to eat, drink and sleep, to work, travel, relax, read, listen and watch, to shop, chat, date and have sex.
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IBM Nurtures Mainframe Workforce With World Championship
IBM recently announced its first-ever "Master the Mainframe" world championship.
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Facebook Creates Software That Matches Faces Almost as Well as You Do
Asked whether two unfamiliar photos of faces show the same person, a human being will get it right 97.53 percent of the time.
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You Can Take Selfies of Your Aorta With This Mini Camera
Scientific studies of selfies have yielded interesting insights on personalities, gender differences, and national moods, but scientist F. Levent Degertekin has...
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The First News Report on the L.a. Earthquake Was Written By a Robot
Ken Schwencke, a journalist and programmer for the Los Angeles Times, was jolted awake at 6:25 a.m. on Monday by an earthquake.
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Making Sense of Big Data
A University of California, Berkeley professor says he works "at the intersection of algorithms, machine learning, and collaborative crowdsourcing."
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The Future of Brain Implants
What would you give for a retinal chip that let you see in the dark or for a next-generation cochlear implant that let you hear any conversation in a noisy restaurant...
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Nasa Technology Views Birth of the Universe
Astronomers are announcing today that they have acquired the first direct evidence that gravitational waves rippled through our infant universe during an explosive...
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The Data Brokers: Selling Your Personal Information
Over the past six months or so, a huge amount of attention has been paid to government snooping, and the bulk collection and storage of vast amounts of raw data...
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Facebook Feelings Are Contagious, Study Shows
Researchers found that positive Facebook posts encouraged positive posts and negative posts produced negative ones.
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Diagnosing Diseases With Smart Phones
Researchers are developing a disease diagnostic system that offers results that could be read using a smartphone and an inexpensive lens attachment.
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Stanford Students Show Phone Record Surveillance Can Yield Vast Amounts of Information
The National Security Agency's mass surveillance of telephone metadata could yield detailed information about the private lives of individuals far beyond what the...
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Taking an Age-Old Approach to i
Web and app designers need to be mindful of the changing capabilities of aging users.
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Mobile Devices of the Future Will Get Energy From Everywhere Except the Wall Socket
Scientists are advancing new wireless methods of harvesting power from the environment, people, and devices themselves.
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Space Diaries Reveal 6 Things on an Astronaut's Mind
While you are in space, could you keep a diary?
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Missing Malaysia Jet Adds Fuel to 'live Black Box' Debate
Regardless of what caused a Malaysia Airlines jet to disappear from the sky over the weekend, air-safety experts predict it will reignite debate over new technology...
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