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Repairing the Brain
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Repairing the Brain

Will the problem of memory loss one day be forgotten?

Flashes of Light Show How Memories Are Made
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Flashes of Light Show How Memories Are Made

Neuroscientists can breathe a collective sigh of relief.

The Military Is Building Brain Chips to Treat Ptsd
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The Military Is Building Brain Chips to Treat Ptsd

How well can you predict your next mood swing?

Nsa Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
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Nsa Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images

The U.S. National Security Agency is intercepting massive numbers of facial images for use in facial-recognition programs.

Google Invests in Satellites to Spread Internet Access
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Google Invests in Satellites to Spread Internet Access

Google plans to spend more than $1 billion on a group of satellites designed to extend Internet access to unwired regions of the world. 

Sex Harassment App Helps Women Map Abuse
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Sex Harassment App Helps Women Map Abuse

A team of researchers has created a smartphone app designed to combat sexual harassment. 

Why Did the Justice Department Indict Five Chinese Military Officers?
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Why Did the Justice Department Indict Five Chinese Military Officers?

At first glance, the Justice Department's 31-count indictment of five Chinese military officers for hacking into the computers of six American corporations, in...

Scientists Report Finding Reliable Way to Teleport Data
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Scientists Report Finding Reliable Way to Teleport Data

Scientists in the Netherlands have moved a step closer to overriding one of Albert Einstein's most famous objections to the implications of quantum mechanics, which...

­.s. Companies Seek Cyber Experts For Top Jobs, Board Seats
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­.s. Companies Seek Cyber Experts For Top Jobs, Board Seats

Some of the largest U.S. companies are looking to hire cybersecurity experts in newly elevated positions and bring technologists on to their boards, a sign that...

A Tour of Bletchley Park: Codebreaking that Helped Win Wwii, and the Birthplace of the Modern Computer
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A Tour of Bletchley Park: Codebreaking that Helped Win Wwii, and the Birthplace of the Modern Computer

MI6 called it Station X.

Robots As Furniture?
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Robots As Furniture?

Planning the menu for a dinner party in a tiny apartment can be far easier than making sure guests have a place to sit: Many apartment dwellers simply don’t have...

Quantum Cryptography With Ordinary Equipment
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Quantum Cryptography With Ordinary Equipment

Japanese researchers have proposed an approach to quantum cryptography they say could work with commercially available equipment. 

Computer Scientists Study Other Computer Scientists
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Computer Scientists Study Other Computer Scientists

A study and data set from Brown University on computer science faculty at the 50 top U.S. schools yielded interesting findings. 

Brokers ­se 'billions' of Data Points to Profile Americans
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Brokers ­se 'billions' of Data Points to Profile Americans

Are you a financially strapped working mother who smokes?

Estonia's E-Society: Visionary or Naive?
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Estonia's E-Society: Visionary or Naive?

Estonians are very early adopters of information and communications technology (ICT) in domains across their society: from e-Banking and e-Health to e-Police and...

Going Dark: The Internet Behind the Internet
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Going Dark: The Internet Behind the Internet

The average computer user with an Internet connection has access to an amazing wealth of information. But there's also an entire world that's invisible to your...

How Darpa's Augmented Reality Software Works
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How Darpa's Augmented Reality Software Works

Six years ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) decided that they had a new dream. The agency wanted a system that would overlay digital tactical...

Google’s Experimental Smartphone Captures a Future Mapped in 3D
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Google’s Experimental Smartphone Captures a Future Mapped in 3D

Google's Project Tango prototype Android smartphone could make it easier, faster, and less expensive to scan and map the world in 3D. 

A Major Mystery Behind Microsoft's 'brain-Like' Speech-to-Speech Translator
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A Major Mystery Behind Microsoft's 'brain-Like' Speech-to-Speech Translator

New speech-to-speech translation technology from Microsoft becomes better at learning a language as it learns additional languages. 

Experimental Google Smartphone Becomes Brain of Space Robot
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Experimental Google Smartphone Becomes Brain of Space Robot

Robots excel at the tedious, repetitive tasks that bore humans into ineffectiveness.
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