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Software Helps Linguists Reconstruct, Decipher Ancient Languages
Linguists who once spent an entire career reconstructing a major language family now can accomplish that in just a few hours.
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Bold Idea For 'big Data'
Researchers are working to develop a customized, energy-efficient optical network that can feed massive amounts of data into Rice University supercomputers.
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Meet the Machines that Steal Your Phone's Data
The National Security Agency's spying tactics are being intensely scrutinized following the recent leaks of secret documents. However, the NSA isn't the only U.S...
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Man Controls New Prosthetic Leg sing Thought Alone
A man missing his lower leg has gained precise control over a prosthetic limb, just by thinking about moving it—all because his unused nerves were preserved during...
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How Engineers Revamped Spitzer to Probe Exoplanets
Now approaching its 10th anniversary, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has evolved into a premier observatory for an endeavor not envisioned in its original design...
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Interstellar 8-Track: How Voyager's Vintage Tech Keeps Running
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has gone interstellar.
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What Is a Jpeg? The Invisible Object You See Every Day
In 2012, the photograph of Barack and Michelle Obama embracing after his re-election was "liked" over 4 million times.
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In Search of the Next Boom, Developers Cram Their Apps Into Smart Watches
The age of wearable computing is upon us.
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Empty F-16 Jet Tested By Boeing and .s. Air Force
Boeing has revealed that it has retrofitted retired fighter jets to turn them into drones.
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How BlackBerry Finally Found Its Buyer
The BlackBerry melodrama may finally be coming to a close.
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Teardown Shows Iphone 5s Costs at Least $199 to Build, $173 For the 5c
New iPhones always gladden the hearts of the analysts at the research firm IHS, because it means it's time to tear the phones apart.
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Apple's A7 Chip Makes a Run at Intel
Is Apple simply engaging in PR puffery when it talks about its "desktop" A7 chip? Not so fast.
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Utilities Try to Learn From Smart Meters
Utilities have installed more than 60 million smart meters in North America in the past decade.
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Nsa Efforts to Evade Encryption Technology Damaged .s. Cryptography Standard
In the three months since Edward Snowden began his whistle-blowing campaign against the National Security Agency (NSA) the former government contractor has exposed...
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Apple: The 64-Bit Question
There's been an interesting sideshow in tech land since Apple unveiled the iPhone 5S last week: Does having the first 64-bitmicroprocessor in a phone mean anything...
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NASA Curiosity Rover Detects No Methane on Mars
Data from NASA's Curiosity rover has revealed the Martian environment lacks methane. This is a surprise to researchers because previous data reported by U.S. and...
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The New National Identity Is What Smartphone You Prefer, and Nobody's Quite Sure Why
In a fascinating note at Asymco, mobile analyst and ex-Nokian Horace Dediu details how people's taste in smartphones varies from place to place:
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