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Hovering Drones Flock Together Using 3D Vision
If you're going to have a group of drones flying around each other, it would probably be wise to have each of them know where the other is.
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What Makes Heroic Strife
For the past decade or so, generals commanding the world's most advanced armies have been able to rely on accurate forecasts of the outcomes of conventional battles...
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Research Breakthrough Takes Supercomputing Out of the Lab
University of Toronto researchers have developed a system that they say will make the production of a special class of photons used in supercomputing faster and...
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Steganography: How Al-Qaeda Hid Secret Documents in a Porn Video
When a suspected al-Qaeda member was arrested in Berlin in May of 2011, he was found with a memory card with a password-protected folder—and the files within it...
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London 2012: The Importance of Olympic Timekeeping
Olympic timekeepers Omega are unveiling the latest technology that will be used at the London 2012 Games. It can monitor athletes' performance to the nearest one...
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Moore's Law Lives Another Day
"[Gordon] Moore is my boss, and if your boss makes a law, then you'd better follow it," says Mark Bohr, who leads Intel's efforts to make advances in microchip...
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Amateur Astronomers Scour the Sky For Government Secrets
Earlier this year Iran's defense minister put the world on notice: His nation had developed the ability to "easily" watch spacewalking astronauts from the ground...
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'bullet Time' to Stop Cyber Attacks on Power Grids
In The Matrix, the famous "bullet time" effect showed how Keanu Reeves's character Neo was able to sway out of the path of incoming bullets, as time appeared to...
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Web War Ii: What a Future Cyberwar Will Look Like
How might the blitzkrieg of the future arrive? By air strike? An invading army? In a terrorist's suitcase? In fact it could be coming down the line to a computer...
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Nhtsa Testing V2v Communication Systems, Considering Requiring Technology on New Cars
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration wants to ramp up the development and deployment of vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems, and the federal...
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Drone se Takes Off on the Home Front
With little public attention, dozens of universities and law-enforcement agencies have been given approval by federal aviation regulators to use unmanned aircraft...
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Nsf, Src Partner on Failure-Resistant Systems
The U.S. National Science Foundation and the Semiconductor Research Corp. recently announced Failure-Resistant Systems, a joint initiative that seeks proposals...
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Could Iran Wage a Cyberwar on the .s.?
Security professionals in both the U.S. government and in private industry have long feared the prospect of a cyberwar with China or Russia, two states capable...
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The World's Five Biggest Cyber Threats
Criminals do not stop at stealing someone's personal data.
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What Will Nasa's Rover of the Future Look Like?
NASA recently announced the formation of the Mars Program Planning Group, which—as its title would suggest—is aimed at getting us back to Mars. The hope is to get...
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Engineering a Safer World
MIT professor Nancy Leveson recently hosted a workshop to educate more than 250 safety engineering professionals from around the world about System-Theoretic Accident...
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Network Your Stuff: Amateurs Inventing a New Internet
A growing number of computer hobbyists are merging the online and physical worlds in new ways.
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Voyagers' Never-Ending Journey
Exploration is one thing, science another—but they've come together rather nicely in the Voyager mission to the outer planets, outbound for the past 35 years yet...
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