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Nasa to Chronicle Close Earth Flyby of Asteroid
NASA Television will provide commentary starting at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) on Friday, Feb. 15, during the close, but safe, flyby of a small near-Earth asteroid...
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Moshers, Heavy Metal and Emergent Behavior
Researchers say the collective movement of concert-goers in a mosh pit is mathematically similar to that of a disordered 2-D gas.
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Mapping the Underworld
The Mapping the Underworld project is developing a multi-sensor platform that can locate, map in three dimensions, and record the position of buried utility assets...
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Self-Driving Car Given Uk Test Run at Oxford University
Oxford University researchers have developed a self-driving car that uses lasers and small cameras, rather than GPS, to direct the vehicle along regular routes. ...
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Hidden System Makes It Easier For Elderly People to Live at Home
A new assistive system to help senior citizens live at home embeds a tablet computer in the wall for centralized information access.
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Why We're Building a 1-Billion Euro Model of a Human Brain
A 1-billion euro research prize will be dedicated to the Human Brain Project, aimed at recreating the human brain in a supercomputer to advance neuroscience.
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Welcome to the Malware-Industrial Complex
Every summer, computer security experts get together in Las Vegas for Black Hat and DEFCON, conferences that have earned notoriety for presentations demonstrating...
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New Global Research Data Alliance Poised For Launch
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Silicon Valley and Immigrant Groups Find Common Cause
What do computer programmers and illegal immigrants have to do with each other?
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Bill Gates Discusses It Evolution, Web Privacy During Reddit Ama
Microsoft founder Bill Gates recently providing insights into where he thinks the information technology industry is headed.
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Pentagon Creates New Medal For Cyber, Drone Wars
They fight the war from computer consoles and video screens.
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Nasa Satellites Find Freshwater Losses in Middle East
A new study using data from a pair of gravity-measuring NASA satellites finds that large parts of the arid Middle East region lost freshwater reserves rapidly during...
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In Cyberwar, Software Flaws Are a Hot Commodity
There have been security flaws in software as long as there has been software, but they have become even more critically important in the context of cyberweapons...
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Nanoscale Chip Design Enables Future 'internet of Things'
With each passing day we are becoming more intertwined into the Internet of Things, where each and every object in the world—your clothes closet and every article...
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Obama Order Gives Firms Cyberthreat Information
President Obama signed an executive order on Tuesday that promotes increased information sharing about cyberthreats between the government and private companies...
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Virtual Vehicle Vibrations
New software that lets engineers predict how the posture of a driver will affect the transfer of stress from vehicle motion to bones and muscles.
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At Facebook, Zero-Day Exploits, Backdoor Code Bring War Games Drill to Life
Early on Halloween morning, members of Facebook's Computer Emergency Response Team received an urgent email from an FBI special agent who regularly briefs them...
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Robot Inquisition Keeps Witnesses on the Right Track
Researchers are developing robots to help solve the misinformation effect, remembering events differently depending on how one is asked.
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People in Disaster Areas Are Not Helpless Victims, but Useful Informants
A decentralized disaster management system would allow people in a disaster to guide each other to safety and share information about changing conditions.
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