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Speed of Light Lingers in Face of New Camera
More than 70 years ago, the MIT electrical engineer Harold (Doc) Edgerton began using strobe lights to create remarkable photographs: a bullet stopped in flight...
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What Is the Higgs Boson and Why Does It Matter?
As the world awaits news of the possible discovery of the Higgs boson, there remains a lot of confusion about what it is, why we have had to work hard to find...
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NASA Presents Software of the Year Award
Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science (AEGIS), novel autonomy software that has been operating on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity since...
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Quantum Computing Promises New Insights, Not Just Supermachines
Today's quantum computer researchers have a solid blueprint for a new type of computer that could solve certain problems in seconds that would probably take millennia...
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Look, p in the Sky! It's a Drone, Looking at You
Unmanned aircraft—or drones—are playing a large role in U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, but they're starting to show up the the skies above the U.S....
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IBM's 3 Big Chip Breakthroughs Explained
IBM has made three breakthroughs that could help chips continue following Moore's Law.
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Body-Sharing Robot Lets You Experience Another Place
Ever wished you could be in two places at once? Now you can share your body with a telepresence robot created by Dzmitry Tsetserukou of Toyohashi University of...
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Will the Kinect 2 Be Able to Read Your Lips?
How will users hack this one? The Kinect is a device that inherently grows and expands: Microsoft itself has come around to acknowledging that the oft-hackedreally...
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How the 'internet Of Things' Is Turning Cities Into Living Organisms
When city services can autonomously go online and digest information from the cloud, they can reach a level of performance never before seen. First up, water...
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Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing
Ever since the early days of modern computing in the 1940s, the biological metaphor has been irresistible.
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Squishy, Soft Robots Crawl Their Way to the Cutting Edge
A new breed of robots based on spineless creatures such as starfish and caterpillars could change the way humans interact with machines.
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Software That Listens For Lies
She looks as innocuous as Miss Marple, Agatha Christie’s famous detective.
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Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth, Say Computer Scientists
Goethe University researchers have found indications of the Weber-Fichner law in the size distribution of Internet files.
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A High-Stakes Search Continues for Silicon's Successor
In a cluttered chip-making laboratory on Stanford's campus, Max Shulaker is producing the world's smallest computer circuits by hand.
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New Efforts to Extend Moore's Law
Continually needing to add computing power to its microprocessors, Santa Clara behemoth Intel this year announced it was venturing beyond its traditional method...
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Enhance Your Senses: High-Tech Ways to Play
Sometimes the best inventions are just for fun. At the 2011 Siggraph Asia event, a leading conference on computer graphics and techniques, researchers will be...
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Soft Robots Inspired By Nature Could Become Our Flexible Friends
Robbie the Robot in the 1950s movie Forbidden Planet may have been endearing in a clunky, metallic way, but negotiating tricky terrain was never his strong point...
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Robots in Reality
Consider the following scenario: A scout surveys a high-rise building that's been crippled by an earthquake, trapping workers inside. After looking for a point...
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Important Step Toward Computing with Light
There has been enormous progress in recent years toward the development of photonic chips—devices that use light beams instead of electrons to carry out their...
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