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Setting Up a Decoy Network May Help Deflect a Hacker's Hits
Researchers have created a computer defense system that senses possible malicious probes of a network and redirects the attack to a virtual network.
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New Computer Chip Manufacturing Method Squeezes More Onto Limited Wafer Space
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Chicago have developed a new method for packing more transistors in less space.
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And The Winner Is...columbus!
Columbus, OH, claims the $50-million top spot in the U.S. Department of Transportation's Smart City Challenge.
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Mars Rover Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations
The layered geologic past of Mars is revealed in stunning detail in new color images returned by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently exploring the "Murray...
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Microsoft's Top Lawyer Becomes a Civil Rights Crusader
When Apple CEO Tim Cook refused to help the FBI get into a mass murderer's iPhone last winter, he was hailed for his boldness in fighting the government on ...
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Your Car's New Software Is Ready. Update Now?
Tired of your vehicle and its aging, limited features? Don’t trade it in just yet. Download new software instead.
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Self-Driving Cars Can Learn a Lot By Playing Grand Theft Auto
Several research groups are using the "Grand Theft Auto" video game to educate algorithms with potential application to self-driving vehicle navigation.
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Google's Clever Plan to Stop Aspiring Isis Recruits
Google has built a half-trillion-dollar business out of divining what people want based on a few words they type into a search field.
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How Satellite Imaging Will Revolutionize Everything from Stock Picking to Farming
When people say knowledge is power, they usually mean "money." Even the great scientist and innovator Galileo Galilei knew that.
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Titan's Dunes and Other Features Emerge in New Images
New scenes from a frigid alien landscape are coming to light in recent radar images of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Team of Robots Learns to Work Together, Without Colliding
New algorithms created by Georgia Institute of Technology researchers enable robots to move within inches of each other, without colliding, to complete their task...
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The Rise of the Drone, and the Thorny Questions that Have Followed
Today in the skies over New Mexico, Air Force students are practicing for the kill.
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We're Ahead of Schedule to Turn 'star Trek' Tech Into Reality
Most Star Trek stories from the vaunted franchise turning 50 this week take place in a distant future we're not likely to see.
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For First Time, Carbon Nanotube Transistors Outperform Silicon
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created carbon nanotube transistors that offer performance superior to their silicon counterparts.
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A Data-Cleaning Tool For Building Better Prediction Models
Researchers at Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley have developed software to replace humans in the most error-prone steps of cleaning...
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Iowa State Engineers Treat Printed Graphene With Lasers to Enable Paper Electronics, Devices
An Iowa State University team says it has developed a new way to use inkjet printers to print multi-layer graphene circuits and electrodes.
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Nasa Aims at an Asteroid Holding Clues to the Solar System's Roots
For the next two years, NASA's latest robotic spacecraft will be chasing down an asteroid near Earth in the hopes of scooping up some of the most primordial bits...
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Mars Contamination Fear Could Divert Curiosity Rover
Four years into its travels across Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover faces an unexpected challenge: wending its way safely among dozens of dark streaks that could indicate...
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Carbon Nanotube Transistors Finally Outperform Silicon
Back in the 1990s, observers predicted that the single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) would be the nanomaterial that pushed silicon aside and created a post-CMOS...
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