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Titan Flybys Test the Talents of Nasa's Cassini Team
As NASA's Cassini spacecraft zooms toward Saturn's smoggy moon Titan for a targeted flyby on June 18, mission scientists are excitedly hoping to repeat a scientific...
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Roads in the Future Will Need Data Standards as Well as Signs, Says Dot's Cio
Data standards will be needed to facilitate traffic flow in the future, and government officials, engineers, and automakers are considering how to implement the...
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Neuroscience's New Toolbox
The hypothalamus is a small structure deep in the brain that, among other functions, coördinates sensory inputs—the appearance of a rival, for example—with instinctual...
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Forget Touchscreens, 3D Holographic Displays Are Coming
As it stands, the touchscreen experience is confined to a flat, two-dimensional world.
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Mastercard Expects Big Growth from 'big Data' Insights
MasterCard Inc, the world's second-largest debit and credit card company, sees business booming from selling data to retailers, banks, and governments on spending...
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Squiggly Lines Secure Smartphones
To protect your financial and personal data, most mobiles come with PIN-based security, biometrics or number grids that require you to retrace a particular pattern...
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Quantum Network Would Be Most Precise Clock Yet
By exploiting the tricks of quantum physics, researchers say they could build a worldwide network of atomic clocks that are much more accurate than any single clock...
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Scotus to Weigh In on When Online Rants Become Criminal Threats
The US Supreme Court on Monday announced that it will consider a case involving a thorny free speech issue in the digital age: at what point does a statement made...
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The Turing Test Is Not What You Think It Is
Whether or not you caught wind of the excited announcement that "Eugene Goostman," a computer program ("chatbot") devised by Vladimir Veselov, Eugene Demchenko,...
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At World Cup, Goal-Line Tech Causes Controversy
As all things that are meant to be infallible, new technology being used in the 2014 World Cup has caused a stir.
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How to Watch the World Cup in the .s. Without Paying For Tv
Most of the world can watch the World Cup for free. Not so much in the U.S.
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Google Embraces Docker, the Next Big Thing in Cloud Computing
Google is putting its considerable weight behind an open source technology that’s already one of the hottest new ideas in the world of cloud computing.
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With 'the Machine,' Hp May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer
If Hewlett-Packard founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard are spinning in their graves, they may be due for a break.
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Intelligence Too Big For a Single Machine
Ever since the computer scientist John McCarthy coined the term artificial intelligence in 1955, the field has gone through cycles of boundless optimism and sobering...
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Submarines for Saturn, Comet Hitchhikers, Asteroid Wranglers and Other Space Fantasies
If you thought Elon Musk was the only person coming up with innovative ideas for the exploration of outer space, you'd be wrong.
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New Technology Aims to Rid World Cup of 'ghost Goals'
In 1966, British soccer legend Geoff Hurst booted a right-foot shot against Germany in the World Cup championship game.
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Sound Clue in Hunt For Mh370
Researchers are exploring what may be the first promising lead in months in the search for the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.
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Nasa Instruments on Rosetta Start Comet Science
Three NASA science instruments aboard the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft, which is set to become the first to orbit a comet and land a probe on...
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Time Travel: Installing an Atomic Clock at 15,000 Feet
A few months ago I went to Cambridge, Mass. to check in with the Event Horizon Telescope crew and found Shep Doeleman, the project leader, fresh off the completion...
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