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Students Worldwide Share Mobile Addiction
College students around the world are "strikingly similar" in their addiction to their cellphones and need to be connected to social media like Facebook, MySpace...
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Facebook Shares Server Design
Facebook Inc. said it would share details for its new server systems and computer rooms with other companies, hoping to set off what it characterized as an open...
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Military
The Pentagon has spent decades and gazillions of dollars trying to build the perfect translation device. Now, its far-out research arm is looking at a new direction...
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Neighborhood Wireless Grid Project Gains Support
Rochester Institute of Technology, Syracuse University, and Virginia Tech researchers have collaborated to create wireless grid technologies as part of the Wireless...
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A Browser that Speaks Your Language
Early adopters can now get a sneak peek at the future of the Web by downloading the latest prerelease, or "beta," version of Chrome, Google's Web browser. One...
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Nasa Readies Jobs For Robonaut
The space android called Robonaut 2 was just unpacked from its box last month, but NASA is already thinking up jobs for the darn thing to do, such as replacing...
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sing Adjacent Phone Antennas Could Improve Data Transfer
University of Bristol researchers are studying multiple-input multiple-output technology, which uses several antennas to transmit and receive data, in order to...
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Who Is Epsilon and Why Does It Have My Data?
If you didn't get an email warning this week that your name and email address were part of a database that was breached, consider yourself lucky, and unique.
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Secure, Synchronized, Social Tv
Network coding is an innovative new approach to network design that promises much more efficient use of bandwidth, and MIT researchers have made seminal contributions...
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Being John Malkovich: Personal Control of Individual Brain Cells
In philosophy of mind, a "cerebroscope" is a fictitious device, a brain-computer interface in today's language, which reads out the content of somebody's brain...
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How Natural Disasters and Political nrest Affect the Internet
Northwestern University researchers have developed software that analyzes how natural disasters and political upheaval affect the Internet.
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Quantum Trickery Could Lead to Stealth Radar
Stealthy radar systems and the ability to transmit large amounts of data over long distances are a step closer thanks to a technique that could improve the efficiency...
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Microsoft Researchers Tout Low-Cost, Programmable Prototype Data Center Switch
Microsoft researchers are developing ServerSwitch, a programmable, low-cost switching chip that could supplement cloud and other network-based services.
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University Scientists Reach Beyond the Clouds With a Mobile Phone App to Explore the Outer Atmosphere
A mobile phone served as the on-board data logger, payload tracker, and communications relay during a test flight of the Atmospheric Science Through Robotic Aircraft...
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Where Will Larry Page Lead Google?
In the 10 years since the last time Larry Page was Google's chief executive, the company has changed a bit. It has gone from an ambitious startup to a publicly...
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Gravity Satellite Yields 'potato Earth' View
It looks like a giant potato in space. And yet, the information in this model is the sharpest view we have of how gravity varies across the Earth.
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Social Search, Without a Social Network
Google may be built on an algorithm for taming the Web, but yesterday the company added social features that will let your friends help determine what ranks high...
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New Protocol Turbocharges the Web
Over the past 15 years, Web-based applications have gradually replaced those based on other networking protocols for everything from personal communications to...
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Targeted Results
By envisioning data as "graphs," MIT researchers show how to find local solutions to otherwise overwhelmingly complex problems.
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