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Self-Driving Cars More Jetsons Than Reality for Google Designers
Google Inc. sees self-driving cars being available to consumers in three to five years. Regulators and the insurance industry aren't so sure it can happen that...
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Internet Blackout in the U.s. a Near Impossibility
An Internet blackout in the United States is all but impossible due to its variety of Internet service providers and access channels, says Renesys, which ratedView...
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White House Seeks Tech Innovation Fellows
The White House's Presidential Innovation Fellows program, launched last May, is broadening its efforts to recruit key private sector employees to work for a limited...
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Amateur Effort Finds New Largest Prime Number
The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project has scored its 14th consecutive victory, discovering the largest prime number so far.
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A Tiny Computer Attracts a Million Tinkerers
Raspberry Pi may sound like the name of a math-based dessert. But it is actually one of the hottest and cheapest little computers in the world right now.
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nseen, All-Out Cyber War on the .s. Has Begun
There's a war going on, and it's raging here at home—not in the streets or the fields, but on the Internet.
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Doctoral Student Designs Microphones That Monitor Road Traffic
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne doctoral student Patrick Marmaroli has created an automatic road traffic sensor based on dual microphones that pick upView...
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Phreaks and Geeks
One of the most heartfelt—and unexpected—remembrances of Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide last month at the age of 26, came from Yale professor Edward Tufte.
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Broad Powers Seen For Obama in Cyberstrikes
A secret legal review on the use of America's growing arsenal of cyberweapons has concluded that President Obama has the broad power to order a pre-emptive strike...
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Researchers Develop Sound Way to Improve Smartphone Battery Life
Old Dominion University researchers have developed a system that uses an audio signal to reduce the power consumption of Wi-Fi components. Continuous Wi-Fi use...
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Drone Home
A few months ago I borrowed a drone from a company called Parrot. Officially the drone is called an AR.Drone 2.0, but for simplicity's sake, we're just going to...
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Palm-Size Nano-Copter Is the Afghanistan War's Latest Spy Drone
British troops in Afghanistan are flying a drone that’s shrunk down to its essentials: a micro-machine that spies, built for a solitary user.
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Wanted: Geeks to Help Fight Pentagon's Cyberwar
The Pentagon intends to add to the U.S. Cyber Command 4,000 troops and civilians capable of discovering cyberattacks and rapidly rewriting network defenses multiple...
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Holograms Seen as Tools to Teach Future Generations About Holocaust
University of Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation researchers are working on the New Dimensions in Testimony project, which involves developing 3-D holograms...
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Behind the Scenes of Latin America's Internet 'brain'
It may be one of central Miami's most recognisable buildings, yet only a few people know what goes on inside the sturdy concrete block with massive spheres on its...
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Irgc Official: Iran Enjoys 4th Biggest Cyber Army in World
Iran enjoys the world's fourth biggest cyber army, an official of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps announced on Saturday, stressing that the IRGC's power is...
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Once Blackberry Focused, a Campus Widens Its View
The University of Waterloo, in a city that people outside Canada would struggle to find on a map, is one of the world’s best technology schools.
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Finding More STEM Students
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy has announced Next Generation Connecticut, a plan to dedicate $1.5 billion to improving the science, technology, engineering, and...
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Tech, Telecom Giants Take Sides as FCC Proposes Large Public Wifi Networks
The U.S. Federal Communications Committee recently submitted a proposal to create super Wi-Fi networks across the country that would enable users to make calls...
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