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Costly Drone Is Poised to Replace -2 Spy Plane
Tucked away here in the Mojave Desert, the assembly plant for the high-flying Global Hawk jet resembles a giant hobby shop. Work tables surround a handful of...
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Diy Spy Drone Sniffs Wi-Fi, Intercepts Phone Calls
What do you do when the target you’re spying on slips behind his home-security gates and beyond your reach? Launch your personal, specially equipped WASP drone—short...
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Can Video Kill the Credit-Card Form?
The days of tediously having to punch in credit-card details whenever you make an online purchase may be numbered, thanks to a new payment system that turns any...
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Beyond Cell Phone Wallets, Biometrics Promise Truly Wallet-Free Future
Ever since Google announced that its Android phones would be equipped with a "digital wallet" that allows users to pay for things simply by touching their phone...
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Hard-Coded Password and Other Security Holes Found in Siemens Control Systems
A security researcher has uncovered a slew of vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control systems, including a hard-coded password, that would let attackers...
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Mapping the Most Complex Object in the Known niverse
It's paint-by-numbers for neuroscientists. At the Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, researchers have devised a faster way of computing...
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Marvell Tapped By China to Develop Mobile Phone Standard
Chipmaker Marvell, whose top management is based in Santa Clara, has been tapped to help China achieve the goal of creating its own mobile technology standards...
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Meet Dark Tangent, the Hacker Behind Black Hat and Def Con
The word "hacker" evokes all kinds of scary images. But Jeff Moss says hackers are exactly what the world needs more of, because they can make the Internet safer...
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David Ferrucci, Lead Researcher of Ibm's Watson Project
How do you improve on a computer that beat the world's best Jeopardy! players? Have Watson team up with humanity.
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A New Planning Tool Helps Direct Traffic on Aircraft Carriers
On the deck of an aircraft carrier, where up to 60 aircraft are crammed into 4.5 acres (1.8 hectares), real estate is at a premium. While aircraft directors wave...
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Here's How U.s. Spies Will Find You Through Your Pics
Iarpa, the intelligence community’s way-out research shop, wants to know where you took that vacation picture over the Fourth of July. It wants to know where...
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s. And Them.
Someone types a command into a laptop, and Actroid-DER jerks upright with a shudder and a wheeze. Compressed air flows beneath silicone skin, triggering actuators...
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Someday Your Brain Could Brake For You
Many high-end cars today come equipped with brake assist systems, which help a driver use the brakes correctly depending on particular conditions in an emergency...
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Document: Fbi Surveillance Geeks Fear, Love New Gadgets
Can't wait for 4G to become the ubiquitous standard for mobile communication? On the edge of your seat for the unveiling of Microsoft's secret Menlo Project and...
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Quantum Computing Claims Produce Uncertainty
A Canadian company developing a quantum computer made news in May when it sold a system to defense manufacturer Lockheed-Martin for $10 million, though skeptics...
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Nasa's Dawn Spacecraft Begins Science Orbits of Vesta
NASA's Dawn spacecraft, the first ever to orbit an object in the main asteroid belt, is spiraling toward its first of four intensive science orbits. That initial...
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What Will We Watch As Drones Evolve?
Every week it seems there are reports about U.S. drones—unmanned, remote-controlled aerial vehicles—tracking down suspected terrorists in remote, unreachable...
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Will Insect-Like Flying Machines Revolutionize Surveillance?
Research at the University of Oxford is playing a key role in the development of revolutionary insect-sized vehicles with micro-cameras, suitable for different...
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Progress Hits Snag: Tiny Chips se Outsize Power
A research team recently presented a paper at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture that highlights the problem of developing smaller, more densely...
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