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Tau Researchers Develop a Smarter Smartphone Camera
Researchers say they have developed a smartphone camera that bridges the gap between the cellphone camera and the digital still camera.
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Problem at the Polls: Tech Stuck in Past
Election officials are facing a growing imperative to replace outdated voting technology to prepare for elections over the next decade.
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A Synthetic Biology Conference Lures an Intriguing Audience
When does a scientific conference warrant the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security?
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Your Digital Trail Follows You to the Border
Information, money and jobs flow easily around the world, yet it’s getting tougher for travelers to cross some borders.
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The Military Thinks Bitcoin Could Pose a Threat to National Security
Does Bitcoin risk endangering the nation's safety? The Pentagon thinks it might.
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Cassini Revisited
When its handlers finally steer it into a collision course with Saturn in 2017, the spacecraft Cassini will have been in space for two decades, 13 of those years...
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Disney Invents Robots That Swarm Into Colorful Animations
Walt Disney pioneered the art of animation and pushed the boundaries of robotics with his audio-animatronic presidents, but now the research lab that bears hisETH...
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Scientific Computing's Future: Can Any Coding Language Top a 1950s Behemoth?
Take a tour through the research laboratories at any university physics department or national lab, and much of what you will see defines "cutting edge."
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Former Head of the Nsa and Commander of the S Cyber Command, General Keith Alexander
Recently retired director of the U.S. National Security Agency and commander of the U.S. Cyber Command General Keith Alexander was interviewed by Australian Financial...
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Poetic Process Could Extend the End of Moore's Law
A process called Planar Opto-Electronic Technology could extend the life of Moore's Law.
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First-of-a-Kind Supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore Available For Collaborative Research
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recently made the Catalyst supercomputer available to test big data technologies, architectures, and applications.
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Model niverse Recreates Evolution of the Cosmos
Can current theories of cosmology explain how the Universe evolved?
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First Life with 'alien' Dna
For billions of years, the history of life has been written with just four letters—A, T, C and G, the labels given to the DNA subunits contained in all organisms...
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Imaging: Cancer Caught in the Act
Mikala Egeblad was blown away when she made her first action film of tumour cells inside live mice.
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Nasa's Curiosity Rover Drills Sandstone Slab on Mars
Portions of rock powder collected by the hammering drill on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from a slab of Martian sandstone will be delivered to the rover's internal...
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Do-It-Yourselfers Inspire Hardware Renaissance in Silicon Valley
New high-tech, affordable manufacturing tools and new sources of funding are helping launch a generation of entrepreneurs and laying the basis for a hardware renaissance...
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How George Washington niversity Is Shaping a Piece of Google's Smartphone Future
In the labs of George Washington University, students are laboring in labs covered in black-and-white dotted paper, puzzling out how to make a machine that understands...
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Terahertz Imaging on the Cheap
Terahertz imaging, which is already familiar from airport security checkpoints, has a number of other promising applications—from explosives detection to collision...
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Do-It-Yourselfers Inspire Hardware Renaissance in Silicon Valley
In the shadow of Internet monoliths such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, it's easy to forget that Silicon Valley got its start from hard-scrabble tinkerers building...
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