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Reflective Satellites May Be the Future of High-End Encryption
Quantum key distribution is regularly touted as the encryption of the future. While the keys are exchanged on an insecure channel, the laws of physics provide a...
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Creating the Next-Generation Manufacturing World
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Autodesk have signed a cooperative research and development agreement to experiment with design software.
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Dawn Sends Sharper Scenes from Ceres
The closest-yet views of Ceres, delivered by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, show the small world's features in unprecedented detail, including Ceres' tall, conical mountain...
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How Close Are We Really to a Robot-Run Society?
From Rosie, the Jetsons' robot maid, to Arnold Schwarzenegger's cyborg in The Terminator, popular culture has frequently conceived of robots as having a human-like...
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Robokiller Wins Ftc Prize By Annihilating Robocalls
A new technology called "RoboKiller" has won a $25,000 grand prize from the Federal Trade Commission in the agency's "Robocalls: Humanity Strikes Back" contest...
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Team Designs Robots to Build Things in Messy, npredictable Situations
Researchers at Harvard University and the State University of New York at Buffalo are developing robots able to function outside of ideal, predictable environments...
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Google Ordered to Remove Links to Stories about Google Removing Links to Stories
The U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has ordered Google to remove links from its search results that point to news stories reporting on earlier removals...
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Cassini's Final Breathtaking Close Views of Dione
A pockmarked, icy landscape looms beneath NASA's Cassini spacecraft in new images of Saturn's moon Dione taken during the mission's last close approach to the small...
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Nsa Preps Quantum-Resistant Algorithms to Head Off Crypto-Apocalypse
The National Security Agency is advising U.S. agencies and businesses to prepare for a time in the not-too-distant future when the cryptography protecting virtually...
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Diy Tractor Repair Runs Afoul of Copyright Law
The iconic image of the American farmer is the man or woman who works the land, milks cows and is self-reliant enough to fix the tractor. But like a lot of mechanical...
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Small Rocks Build Big Planets
The biggest planets in the Solar System may have gotten their start from the smallest of rocks: centimetre-sized pebbles that formed 4.5 billion years ago from...
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How Apple's Force Touch Could Change the Way You se Your Next Iphone or Ipad
Pressure-sensitive screens, haptic feedback: Why should you care?
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Going Solid-State Could Make Batteries Safer and Longer-Lasting
Researchers say they have developed a solution to the problem of lithium-ion batteries overheating and burning that also would extend battery life.
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Setting Ground Rules For Nanotechnology Research
U.S. researchers led by Duke University faculty have produced two new studies to lay the groundwork for the emerging discipline of nanoinformatics.
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Robotics Research at mass Lowell That Could Change the World--Really
University of Massachusetts Lowell researcher Holly Yanco will collaborate on several projects designed to help save lives and help people with mobility issues.
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Nasa: California Drought Causing Valley Land to Sink
As Californians continue pumping groundwater in response to the historic drought, the California Department of Water Resources today released a new NASA report...
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Google Reveals How It Scales Its Network
Google Inc., Tuesday, outlined its decade-long journey with software-defined networking in a new paper that it presented at the ACM SIGCOMM 2015 conference in London...
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New Optical Chip Lights p the Race For Quantum Computer
Researchers say they have developed a multipurpose, reprogrammable optical chip that can carry out in hours experiments that previously would have taken months.
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A Surprise Source of Life's Code
Genes, like people, have families—lineages that stretch back through time, all the way to a founding member.
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