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Amazing Bug-Sized Robots Can Build Microstructures
Researchers at SRI International have developed tiny robots that can manufacture microstructures too small and complex to be built by current machinery or by hand...
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Smart Phones Could Be sed to Detect Earthquakes
Researchers have demonstrated it is possible to use smartphone global-positioning system data to detect tremors in the earth.
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Turning Tiny Robots Into Student Recruiters
The Santa Fe Institute, in collaboration with the University of New Mexico, hopes to excite high school students about the possibilities of computer programming...
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The Printed Organs Coming to a Body Near You
The advent of three-dimensional (3D) printing has generated a swell of interest in artificial organs meant to replace, or even enhance, human machinery.
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Robots Go Deep Inside Fukushima Nuclear Plant to Map Radiation
In the dark abandoned shell of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Rosemary and Sakura shoot what looks like a dystopian first-person shooter game.
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Why Zapping the Brain Helps Parkinson's Patients
Sending pulses of electricity through the brain via implanted electrodes—a procedure known as deep brain stimulation—can relieve the symptoms of Parkinson's and...
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Case Against Google May Be ndercut By Rapid Shifts in Tech
The antitrust case against Google filed by European Union regulators on Wednesday will inevitably draw comparisons to the long-running prosecution of Microsoft,...
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Hackers Could Commandeer New Planes Through Passenger Wi-Fi
Seven years after the Federal Aviation Administration first warned Boeing that its new Dreamliner aircraft had a Wi-Fi design that made it vulnerable to hacking...
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Google Has Patented the Ability to Control a Robot Army
After getting a patent for giving robots personalities last month, Google now wants to unleash an army of Rodney Dangerfield bots on the world.
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Eu Officially Strikes at Google on Shopping Service, Android
The European Union officially accused Google of violating antitrust laws, claiming it abused its dominance in search to favor its shopping results.
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Nasa Mars Rover's Weather Data Bolster Case For Brine
Martian weather and soil conditions that NASA's Curiosity rover has measured, together with a type of salt found in Martian soil, could put liquid brine in the...
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How the Computer Got Its Revenge on the Soviet Union
In 1950, with the Cold War in full swing, Soviet journalists were looking desperately for something to help them fill their anti-American propaganda quota.
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The Wearable Device That Could nlock a New Human Sense
In March, the neuroscientist David Eagleman stood on stage to give a TED talk on sensory substitution, the idea of replacing the duties of one sense by using another...
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Snowden's 'sexy Margaret Thatcher' Password Isn't So Secure
Edward Snowden appears to have a thing for the late British conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher. And his obsession may even be clouding his famously paranoid...
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New Understanding of Electromagnetism Could Enable 'Antennas on a Chip'
New insight into the nature of electromagnetism could lead to antennas small enough to fit on computer chips.
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Ibm Tests Mobile Computing Pioneer's Controversial Brain Algorithms
For more than a decade Jeff Hawkins, founder of mobile computing company Palm, has dedicated his time and fortune to a theory meant to explain the workings of the...
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Mystery of Ceres' Bright Spots Grows
Not all of the puzzling bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres are alike.
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Air Force's Secret 'gorgon Stare' Program Leaves Terrorists Nowhere To Hide
In Greek mythology, Gorgons were creatures whose terrible visages could turn men to stone with a single glance.
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Robotics Can Now Give You a Leg Up--Literally
Researchers are developing a lightweight, unpowered exoskeleton that fits over the lower leg, which they say could reduce the energy used to walk by 7 percent.
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