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Wall Street's Cult Calculator Turns 30
Matthew Rothman bought an HP 12c financial calculator for his first job out of college in 1989. Years later, he still has the same calculator. And he still uses...
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How Satellites Helped Get Bin Laden
The climax of the Osama drama took place on the ground in Pakistan, but the gutsy military operation would have been impossible to pull off without a web of orbiting...
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Robots Learn to Share, Validating Hamilton's Rule
French researchers are developing robots with altruistic traits based on Hamilton's rule, which states that an organism is more likely to express altruism with...
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Helmet Camera Technology Enables Live Front-Line Video
Helmet-mounted cameras mean live video can be sent direct from the front line back to headquarters. This technology enabled military and intelligence chiefs to...
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What to Expect from Bin Laden's Hard Drives
The Navy SEALs who raided Osama bin Laden's hideout Sunday tapped into the "mother lode of intelligence," according to a U.S. official speaking to Politico. It...
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Herding Swarms of Microrobots
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Duke University demonstrated that they were able to control a group of microrobots to create complex patterns...
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Pacific Biosciences' $600 Million Decoder Ring
On Apr. 28, in a factory in Menlo Park, Calif., a few black and white machines were being assembled and prepped to go into shipping crates. The machines looked...
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Csi Bin Laden: Commandos Use Thumb, Eye Scans to Track Terrorists
The U.S. forces that killed Osama bin Laden in his Abbottabad compound were more than expert marksmen. Some of them were forensics experts as well, using sophisticated...
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Information Sharing at the Quantum Limit
Led by Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics director Gerhard Rempe, researchers have successfully transferred quantum information encoded in a single photon onto...
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Voyager Set to Enter Interstellar Space
More than 30 years after they left Earth, NASA's twin Voyager probes are now at the edge of the solar system.
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Cloud Computing and Internet se Suck Energy, Emit Co2, Says Greenpeace
If it were a country, the Internet would rank fifth in the world in electricity usage, according to a new report on cloud computing from Greenpeace.
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Caterpillars Inspire New Movements in Soft Robots
A strategy that caterpillars employ to escape predators could be used to improve the speed of soft-bodied search-and-rescue robots, say Tufts University researchers...
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a Engineers Win Patent For Protein-Based Electronic Circuits
University of Arizona researchers have patented a process for building microscopic wiring circuits made of copper insulated by proteins known as microtubules.
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Digging Deeper, Seeing Farther: Supercomputers Alter Science
Inside a darkened theater a viewer floats in a redwood forest displayed with Imax-like clarity on a cavernous overhead screen.
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Mars's Frozen Ocean of Carbon Dioxide
Mars is a dry, frigid, dusty, nearly airless place. A couple of billion years ago, though, it wasn't much different from Earth.
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Quantum Computer Scientist's Aim
University of Arkansas physicist Jak Chakhalian is seeking a new miniature building block for quantum computers, using a new class of nanomaterials known as topological...
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Chemical Computers Solve Shapely Puzzles
Chemical computers can solve certain problems in computational geometry, according to University of West England professor Andrew Adamatzky and colleagues.
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Apple, Google Leagues Ahead in Developer Survey
Google lost some ground in its effort to catch Apple's lead in the effort to attract mobile developer interest, but other rivals aren't even close, survey data...
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Designs With a Deeper Purpose
Microsoft software design specialist Bill Buxton wants developers to focus on innovations that can improve humans' quality of life.
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