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Almost Being There: Why the Future of Space Exploration Is Not What You Think
Mocup is a tiny, adorable remote-controlled robot built from a Lego Mindstorms set with an off-the-shelf Beagleboard computer for a brain and a webcam for an eye...
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How to Steal Data from Your Neighbor in the Cloud
Cloud computing teaches people not to worry about physical equipment for hosting data and running software.
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Georgia Tech Turns Stale Physics Book Into Mobile Experience
Georgia Tech researchers are turning physics textbooks into applications for e-books, making the lessons more interactive and more interesting for students.
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Moore's Law Is Becoming Irrelevant
Companies like Apple and Samsung are the public face of the smartphone and tablet boom, but they all rely on ARM, the British company that licenses the energy-efficient...
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From Sudan to Cyber, Secret War with Iran Hots Up
From a suspected Israeli airstrike in Sudan to cyber warfare in the Gulf and a drone shot down over Israel, the largely hidden war between Iran and its foes seems...
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Microsoft Brings Star Trek's Voice Translator to Life
Microsoft has developed and publicly demonstrated nearly instantaneous Chinese-to-English spoken word translation software capable of preserving the distinctive...
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Eye Am a Camera: Surveillance and Sousveillance in the Glassage
Digital eye glasses like Google’s Project Glass, and my earlier Digital Eye Glass, will transform society because they introduce a two-sided surveillance and sousveillance...
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Mars to Earth: How to Send Hd Video Between Planets
"It once was a small step... now it's six big wheels," exclaimed Curiosity's Twitter account after the Nasa rover landed on Mars in early August. The message itself...
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Registration Open For 20th Annual Nasa Great Moonbuggy Race
Registration is open for the 20th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race, which challenges high school, college, and university students around the world to build and...
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Silicon Valley Technology Could Be Key to Connect Cars For Safer Driving
While Google's self-driving car is getting heaps of attention, a lesser-known effort that would employ Silicon Valley technologies to make regular automobiles safer...
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Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel For Mac
Apple Inc. is exploring ways to replace Intel Corp. processors in its Mac personal computers with a version of the chip technology it uses in the iPhone and iPad...
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Professor Develops Eye Tracking Technology
Texas State University researchers have developed ocular biometric software that can be used in the medical field to identify eye movements associated with concussions...
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Intel Researchers Work on New Way to Display, Share Images
Intel researchers are developing Display without Borders, a system to display photos and videos in order to make them more social and collaborative.
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Print 2.0
Interactive print technology could change the way you read and interact with documents, newspapers, and more.
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Everyone Wants a Slice of Raspberry Pi
It's 9am on a lovely autumn morning at Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, just outside Geneva.
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Future Mars Missions: Can Humans Actually Trump Robots?
For decades scientists have backed the idea of sending robots to collect Martian rocks and return them to Earth, a project that should be possible well before humans...
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Why You Can't Vote Online Tuesday
A decade and a half into the Web revolution, we do much of our banking and shopping online. So why can't we vote over the Internet? The answer is that voting presents...
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Google Explains How More Data Means Better Speech Recognition
A new research paper out of Google describes in some detail the data science behind the the company's speech recognition applications, such as voice search and...
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Predicting What Topics Will Trend on Twitter
Twitter's home page features a regularly updated list of topics that are "trending," meaning that tweets about them have suddenly exploded in volume.
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