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Why Google Is the Big Data Company That Matters Most
Every now and then, someone asks "Who’ll be the Google of big data?"
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Quantum Invisibility Cloak Hides Objects from Reality
Invisibility cloaks are all the rage these days.
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The Nsa Could Collect Far More Than Your Phone Records from Mobile Operators
The revelation that the National Security Agency is collecting our phone records has generated considerable outrage, but phone call metadata is just the beginning...
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Using Robots to Treat Autism
Therapists and researchers are experimenting with robots to interact with children with autism; the technology, and the technique, could revolutionize the field...
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How Thoughts Can Control a Flying Robot
It's a staple of science fiction: people who can control objects with their minds.
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New Tasks Become As Simple As Waving a Hand with Brain-Computer Interfaces
Small electrodes placed on or inside the brain allow patients to interact with computers or control robotic limbs simply by thinking about how to execute those...
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'chinese Google' nveils Visual Search Engine Powered By Fake Brains
Chinese search giant Baidu has served up its first ever visual search engine, which allows users to finally query the web using only images as input instead of...
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How Social Media Is Changing Disaster Response
When Hurricane Katrina ravaged the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005, Facebook was the new kid on the block. There was no Twitter for news updates, and the iPhone was not...
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Wearable Computing Pioneer Steve Mann: Who Watches the Watchmen?
Steve Mann has been developing wearable technology for the past 30 years, adapting computers, screens, and optics into wearable devices.
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The Next Big Thing in Tech: Augmented Reality
Augmented reality technologies have been in development in university labs and small companies for almost 50 years.
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How Wearable Tech Will Fuel the Internet of Things
Wearable technologies are expected to play an integral role in the Internet of things.
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Spies Like s: How We All Helped Build Prism
It used to be that the National Security Agency and its ilk had to pay through the nose for the latest in spying technology.
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How Google Transfers Data to Nsa
How does Google hand over data to the government? By old-fashioned secure "file transfer protocol," or FTP. And sometimes even by hand.
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DARPA Robotics Challenge: The Search For the Perfect Robot Soldier
The Atlas robot looks something out of the post-apocalyptic future, or maybe a Will Smith blockbuster. It's a 330lb cyborg with eerily human-like hands and a head...
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How the .s. ses Technology to Mine More Data More Quickly
When American analysts hunting terrorists sought new ways to comb through the troves of phone records, e-mails, and other data piling up as digital communications...
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What Would Happen If All Satellites Stopped Working?
We may not always realise it, but we depend on space technology orbiting the Earth.
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Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton Lets Paralyzed People Walk
MindWalker is the first exoskeleton that aims to allow paralyzed people to walk using only their minds.
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Studying Hurricanes With Swarms of Smart Drones
Remember in Twister when they threw all those little sensors into the tornado? University of Florida scientists are working on a similar plan for hurricanes involving...
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Drone Nation: A New Industry Takes Flight
By 2025 the drone industry will employ 100,000 people and be worth $82 billion globally, according to the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International...
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