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A Chinese Internet Giant Starts to Dream
Punk bands from Blondie to the Ramones once played in Broadway Studios, an age-worn 95-year-old neoclassical building surrounded by strip clubs in San Francisco’s...
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Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton
NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft gave humanity its first close-up look at Neptune and its moon Triton in the summer of 1989.
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Is Emailing Your Brainwaves the Future of Communication?
Here's something you probably didn't expect in your inbox: Researchers have now developed a way to email brainwaves.
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Tor Project's Struggle to Keep the Dark Net in the Shadows
The BBC has interviewed Andrew Lewman, executive director of the Tor Project.
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Anatomy of an Air Strike: Three Intelligence Streams Working in Concert
In a fast-moving war with an elusive foe like the Islamic State militants, information is as important as guns, jet fighters and bombs.
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Google's Fact-Checking Bots Build Vast Knowledge Bank
Google is building the largest store of knowledge in human history—and it's doing so without any human help.
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Listening In: The Navy Is Tracking Ocean Sounds Collected By Scientists
In a retired shore station for transpacific communications cables on the western coast of Vancouver Island sits a military computer in a padlocked cage.
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Vexed in the City: Starved For Tech Talent and Yet Nobody to Hire?
Darin Wedel made headlines in 2012 when his wife, Jennifer, asked President Barack Obama during a Google+ Hangout why her husband was still out of work while H-1B...
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Sequencing at Sea
Using a DNA sequencer, researchers were able to sequence 26 bacterial genomes, as well as two metagenomes.
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New Era in Safety When Cars Talk to One Another
A driver moves along in traffic, the forward view blocked by a truck or a bend in the road. Suddenly, up ahead, someone slams on the brake. Tires screech.
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Neanderthals: Bone Technique Redrafts Prehistory
Neanderthals and humans lived together in Europe for thousands of years, concludes a timeline based on radiocarbon dates from 40 key sites across Europe.
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Cryptography Expert Says, 'pgp Encryption Is Fundamentally Broken, Time For Pgp to Die'
A Senior cryptography expert has claimed multiple issues with PGP email encryption—an open source end-to-end encryption to secure email.
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Slow Internet Connection? The Web Might Have a Bigger Problem
Slow Internet connection frustrated users on Tuesday, but the slowdown wasn't caused by cable problems or data center issues.
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As Seen By Rosetta: Comet Surface Variations
A new image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko shows the diversity of surface structures on the comet's nucleus.
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The Engineer of the Original Apple Mouse Talks About His Remarkable Career
Jim Yurchenco was responsible for squeezing the guts inside the impossibly slim Palm V.
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Wireless Sensors and Flying Robots: A Way to Monitor Deteriorating Bridges
Researchers are developing wireless sensors and flying robots that could help authorities monitor the conditions of bridges in real time.
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Brain-Computer Interface Project Gives Hope to Disabled
The European Union-funded Tools for Brain-Computer Interaction project could help the severely disabled regain some of their lost functionality.
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ltra Pure Silicon Could Pave Way For More Quantum Computing Research
Researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a much less expensive and easier way of producing ultra-pure silicon.
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Researchers Roll Out Free Software to Advance Computer Chip Design
Researchers have developed software to facilitate chip design, and are making it freely available to cultivate new research on pushing the envelope of computer...
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