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Nato Agrees Cyber Attack Could Trigger Military Response
NATO leaders agreed on Friday that a large-scale cyber attack on a member country could be considered an attack on the entire U.S.-led alliance, potentially triggering...
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The Hazards of Going on Autopilot
At 9:18 P.M. on February 12, 2009, Continental Connection Flight 3407, operated by Colgan Air, took off from Newark International Airport.
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Earthquake Alert? An App For That Is On the Way
Saving your life when the Big One finally rocks California? Yeah, there's an app for that.
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E-Sports Set Video Gamers Fighting For Real Money in Virtual Contests
A bewitching creature—half woman, half deer—battles a shaman and a sentient tree.
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Light Particles May Hold the Keys to a Revolution in Encryption
A new device harnesses the random spin of light particles to produce a random number for use in a cryptographic key.
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Programmers Could Get Repl in Official Java
Proponents of open source Java are formally considering adding a Read Evaluate Print Loop tool to the programming language.
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Materials Other Than Silicon For Next Generation Electronic Devices
Researchers say they have developed a novel transistor prototype designed to test nanowires made of compound semiconductors.
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Internet Routing Failures Bring Architecture Changes Back to the Table
Significant reductions in the space needed for IPv4 routes could be made if service providers aggregated more of their routes.
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Brain-to-Brain Verbal Communication in Humans Achieved For the First Time
Humans just got a step closer to being able to think a message into someone else's brain on the other side of the world.
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Time Travel Simulation Resolves 'grandfather Paradox'
On June 28, 2009, the world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking threw a party at the University of Cambridge, complete with balloons, hors d'oeuvres and iced champagne...
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The Defenders of Anonymity on the Internet
You may not realise it, but every time you open up your laptop or switch on your phone, you are at the heart of one of the greatest battles now taking place in...
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Google Backs Second Quantum Computing Effort
Scientists can't seem to agree on what a quantum computer is. But the uncertainty hasn't deterred Google from backing a second major effort in the field.
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Brainy, Yes, but Far From Handy
In factories and warehouses, robots routinely outdo humans in strength and precision.
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Finding the 'holy Grail' of Making Smarter Robots
Robots that can learn how to do just about anything, including anticipating what their human owners are about to do, may be lurking around the corner if scientists...
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Memory Reformat Planned For Opportunity Mars Rover
An increasing frequency of computer resets on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has prompted the rover team to make plans to reformat the rover's flash...
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Baby X, The Intelligent Toddler Simulation, Is Getting Smarter Every Day
Holding a children's picture book up to his computer screen, a researcher for the Auckland Bioengineering Institute Laboratory for Animate Technologies in New Zealand...
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Chameleon: Cloud Computing For Computer Science
The U.S. National Science Foundation recently announced a new $10 million project to create a cloud computing testbed called Chameleon, an experimental platform...
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Nasa Telescopes ncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy
Astronomers have for the first time caught a glimpse of the earliest stages of massive galaxy construction.
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How Social Media Silences Debate
The Internet might be a useful tool for activists and organizers, in episodes as momentous as the Arab Spring or as trivial as the Ice Bucket Challenge. But overall...
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