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The Beginning of the Internet of Robot Things
Robots will take the Internet of Things to the next level.
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The Bandwidth Bottleneck that Is Throttling the Internet
On 19 June, several hundred thousand US fans of the television drama Game of Thrones went online to watch an eagerly awaited episode—and triggered a partial failure...
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Cooling Breakthrough Could Improve Performance of Quantum Computers
University of Southern California researchers have developed a way to minimize errors in quantum computers by reducing and correcting errors associated with heating...
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Thanks to This Man, Airplanes Don’t Crash Into Mountains Anymore
Giant flocks of black birds circled the wreckage of an airliner that had struck an Alaska mountain two weeks earlier, killing all 111 aboard.
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Martians Might Be Real. That Makes Mars Exploration Way More Complicated
History will note that the guy who discovered liquid water on Mars was an undergraduate at the University of Arizona, a 20-year-old who played guitar in a death...
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Cyborg Stingray Swims Toward Light, Breaks New Ground
The idea of taking apart a rat's heart and transforming it into a tissue-engineered stingray first came to Kevin Kit Parker during a trip to the New England Aquarium...
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Where in the World Is My Data and How Secure Is It?
When Max Schrems, an Austrian privacy activist, requested to see his personal data that Facebook stored on its servers, he was mailed a CD-ROM containing a 1,222...
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Sprinkling of Neural Dust Opens Door to Electroceuticals
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have developed tiny wireless implants that one day could control prosthetics and treat physical disorders....
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Beyond Crispr: A Guide to the Many Other Ways to Edit a Genome
The CRISPR–Cas9 tool enables scientists to alter genomes practically at will.
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Fbi Chief Comey: 'we Have Never Had Absolute Privacy'
FBI Director James Comey has some phones—650 of them, to be exact—that he'd really, really like to take a look at.
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Curiosity Rover Report: Four Years on Mars
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity celebrates its fourth year on Mars since landing at Gale crater on August 5, 2012.
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Spinning Electrons Could Lead to New Electronics
Graphene and its unique characteristics could transform electronics and expand physicists' understanding of quantum phenomena.
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Nc State to Form Nsf-Funded Center For Advanced Electronics Through Machine Learning With iuc and Georgia Tech
Three universities are forming the Center for Advanced Electronics through Machine Learning to accelerate design and verification of microelectronic circuits and...
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How to Give Rural America Broadband? Look to the Early 1900s
From the sofa in his living room, Clinton Creason can see the electric pole outside that his father staked 70 years ago to bring power to this remote area of hilly...
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Nasa Maps Thawed Areas Under Greenland Ice Sheet
NASA researchers have helped produce the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed—key information in better predicting...
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How to Hack an Election in 7 Minutes
When Princeton professor Andrew Appel decided to hack into a voting machine, he didn't try to mimic the Russian attackers who hacked into the Democratic National...
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Stanford-Led Experiments Point Toward Memory Chips 1,000 Times Faster Than Today's
Experiments are exploring a new class of semiconductor materials that could form the basis of phase-change memory capable of faster and permanent data storage.
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Flexible Wearable Electronic Skin Patch Offers New Way to Monitor Alcohol Levels
University of California, San Diego researchers have developed a wearable sensor that can accurately monitor alcohol level within 15 minutes.
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Def Con: Do Smart Devices Mean Dumb Security?
More and more people are finding that the devices forming this network of smart stuff can make their lives easier.
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