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Nasa Begins Countdown to Pluto Flyby
Today marks the beginning of the world’s encounter with Pluto, as a NASA spacecraft that has journeyed for nine years begins its first phrase of approach to the...
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Fujitsu Smart Ring Lets ser 'write' in the Air
Fujitsu Laboratories recently demonstrated a prototype for a ring-type computing device that would enable users to "write" words in the air.
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Need Some Espionage Done? Hackers Are For Hire Online
A man in Sweden says he will pay up to $2,000 to anyone who can break into his landlord’s website.
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Crystal-Rich Rock 'mojave' Is Next Mars Drill Target
A rock target where NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is using its sample-collection drill this week may have a salty story to tell.
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A Speedy Wireless Protocol Is Coming to Many Gadgets
Smartphones, tablets and PCs should appear this year that can send and receive data wirelessly more than 10 times faster than a Wi-Fi connection.
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The Voice-Activated Video Game
When he was in grad school, the roboticist Daniel Wilson installed 150 binary sensors in his house.
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Nasa and Esa Celebrate 10 Years Since Titan Landing
Ten years ago, an explorer from Earth parachuted into the haze of an alien moon toward an uncertain fate.
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Batman Lights the Way to Compact Data Storage
Researchers say they have developed technology that could make data storage on hard drives faster and more efficient.
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Colleges Rush to Create Cybersecurity Soldiers
The recent increase in computer attacks at major corporations have pushed colleges and universities to educate more cybersecurity students and professionals.
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Tropical Paradise Inspires Virtual Ecology Lab
A paradise on Earth could soon become the first ecosystem in the world to be replicated in digital form in painstaking detail, from the genes of its plants and...
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We Know How You Feel
Three years ago, archivists at A.T. & T. stumbled upon a rare fragment of computer history: a short film that Jim Henson produced for Ma Bell, in 1963.
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What You 'like' on Facebook Gives Away Your Personality
Be careful what you "like" on Facebook. You're opening a small window on your soul.
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Machines Teach Astronomers About Stars
Astronomers are enlisting the help of machines to sort through thousands of stars in our galaxy and learn their sizes, compositions and other basic traits.
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Why the Silk Road Trial Matters
Ross Ulbricht is finally getting his day in court, 15 months after plainclothes FBI agents grabbed him in the science fiction section of a San Francisco library...
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Black Phosphorous—the Birth of a New Wonder Material
In the last few years, two-dimensional crystals have emerged as some of the most exciting new materials to play with.
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DARPA Takes Aim at Energy Conversion Technology
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is launching a program which focuses on transduction, the conversion of energy from one form to another.
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Nissan, Nasa Team Up For Self-Driving Car Tech
Nissan and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration have announced a five-year research and development partnership to produce an autonomous vehicle...
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The 8080 Chip at 40: What's Next For the Mighty Microprocessor?
Descendants of the Intel 8080 microprocessor, which gave rise to the personal computer industry, promise to lead to further computer technology evolution.
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Can the Government Ban Encryption?
Whenever the terrorist threat is increased, as it has been since the tragic events in Paris last week, so too are the calls from politicians to increase the powers...
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