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Solving Paralysis sing Brain Computer Interfaces
Before the opening match of the 2014 World Cup in São Paulo, Juliano Pinto, a young paraplegic Brazilian, was brought out onto the sidelines wearing a huge exoskeleton...
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Closing Security Gaps in Internet-Connected Household
Ruhr University Bochum researchers are developing a way to detect and fix vulnerabilities in applications that run on different devices, regardless of processor...
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Cybercrime Market Sells Servers For as Little as 6 Dollars to Launch Attacks
A major underground marketplace acting like an eBay for criminals is selling access to more than 70,000 compromised servers allowing buyers to carry out widespread...
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Nasa Mars Rover Descends Plateau, Turns Toward Mountain
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has analyzed its 12th drilled sample of Mars. This sample came from mudstone bedrock, which the rover resumed climbing in late May after...
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Goodbye, Obamaberry. Hello, Obamadroid.
When President Barack Obama took office in 2009, he pushed to keep his BlackBerry.
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Robots to Provide a Steadying Hand at the Right Time
The U.S. National Science Foundation is funding several robotics-related projects across the U.S. designed to improve people's safety and well-being.
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The Quest to Make Code Work Like Biology Just Took A Big Step
In the early 1970s, at Silicon Valley's Xerox PARC, Alan Kay envisioned computer software as something akin to a biological system, a vast collection of small cells...
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On Her Microphone's Secret Service: How Spies, Anyone Can Grab Crypto Keys from the Air
Discerning secret crypto keys in computers and gadgets by spying on how they function isn't new, although the techniques used are often considered impractical.
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Gps Doesn't Work nderwater
To prepare for the possibility that it will one day deploy swarms of uncrewed drone submarines, the U.S. Navy is developing a system that will allow the global...
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What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation?
Last week, Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and other cutting-edge companies, took a surprising question at the Code Conference, a technology...
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Red Astroturf: Chinese Government Makes Millions of Fake Social Media Posts
Data scientists at Harvard University have found that the government of the People's Republic of China generates an estimated 448 million fake social media posts...
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Light Packing More Data Has Potential to Increase Bandwidth By 100 Times
Researchers want to replace optical communications systems about to hit a bandwidth limitation.
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Bringing Programming--and Social Change--to Girls
A group of eighth-grade girls participating in the U.S. National Science Foundation's Co-Robots for CompuGirls event programmed a pair of humanoid robots.
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Tongue-Machine Computer Interfaces Are Here
Tongue input technology using glossokinetic potential is capable of directing motorized wheelchairs and could lead to successful silent speech-recognition technology...
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Going Digital May Make Analog Quantum Computer Scaleable
There are many different schemes for making quantum computers work (most of them evil). But they pretty much all fall into two categories.
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How Intel Makes a Chip
Before entering the cleanroom in D1D, as Intel calls its 17 million-cubic-foot microprocessor factory in Hillsboro, Oregon, it's a good idea to carefully wash your...
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Building Morality Into Machines
Technology ethics are a growing concern as artificial intelligence advances and autonomous technologies become reality.
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Nasa Mars Orbiters Reveal Seasonal Dust Storm Pattern
After decades of research to discern seasonal patterns in Martian dust storms from images showing the dust, but the clearest pattern appears to be captured by measuring...
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Icann Endorses Plan to Cede Internet Oversight
The U.S. government has endorsed a plan to cede its oversight of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to the broader online community.
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