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Researchers Find and Decode the Spy Tools Governments se to Hijack Phones
Newly uncovered components of a digital surveillance tool used by more than 60 governments worldwide provide a rare glimpse at the extensive ways law enforcement...
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These Psychedelic Images Find Order Amid Chaos
What do you see when you look at these images?
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Nasa's Mars Curiosity Rover Marks First Martian Year
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover will complete a Martian year—687 Earth days—on June 24, having accomplished the mission's main goal of determining whether Mars once...
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Beyond Tianhe-2
The TOP500 semi-annual ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers, announced yesterday, revealed that China's Tianhe-2 has kept its first-place position...
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Former Nsa Chief Mike Mcconnell Says Culture, Not Tech, Is Key to Cyber Defense
John M. (Mike) McConnell says that technology alone isn't enough to secure corporate networks from pervasive and increasingly damaging cyberattacks.
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nblinking Eyes Track Employees
A digital Big Brother is coming to work, for better or worse.
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Indoor Gps Is the Final Frontier of Personalized Navigation
Labs in the U.S. and U.K. are working on next-generation GPS that's so cool, it won't even use satellites.
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Memory Cells Built on Paper
A team at the National Taiwan University in Taipei has printed small resistive random access memory cells on paper.
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Top500 Supercomputer Race Hits a Slow Patch
The performance of the world's fastest computers has been steadily growing for two decades, but the latest tally of their collective performance shows slowing progress...
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Computing a Cure For Hiv: 9 Ways Supercomputers Help Scientists nderstand and Treat the Virus
HIV/AIDS has caused an estimated 36 million deaths, according to the World Health Organization, and remains a major menace worldwide.
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3D Images Remodel History
It took hundreds of thousands of workers decades to create China's terracotta army, but digital avatars made in minutes could solve the lingering mystery of one...
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As Robotics Advances, Worries of Killer Robots Rise
From driverless cars to delivery drones, a new generation of robots is about to revolutionize the way people work, drive and shop.
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China's Lunar Rover Limps Into Another Long Night
As it plunges into another two-week long 'lunar night', Jade Rabbit, China's Moon rover, is living on borrowed time.
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Spitzer Spies an Odd, Tiny Asteroid
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have measured the size of an asteroid candidate for NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), a proposed spacecraft...
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Mind-Control: 'i Drove a Car with My Thoughts'
Henrik Matzke is in the driving seat of a car, poised to make a very unusual manoeuvre.
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Can Hp Build the Computer of the Future?
On June 11, Hewlett-Packard revealed plans to make a new kind of computer that it's playfully calling The Machine.
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The Thought Experiment
I was about 15 minutes late for my first phone call with Jan Scheuermann.
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Losing the Key
In this age of rapid transformation, the house key has been surprisingly resistant to change.
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Software That Sees Employees, Not Outsiders, As the Real Threat
A growing number of companies are under pressure to protect sensitive data—and not just from hackers lurking outside the digital walls.
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