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How BlackBerry Finally Found Its Buyer
The BlackBerry melodrama may finally be coming to a close.
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Encrypted Heartbeats Keep Hackers from Medical Implants
Rice University researchers have found a solution to the potential for hacking an implanted defibrillator.
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Teardown Shows Iphone 5s Costs at Least $199 to Build, $173 For the 5c
New iPhones always gladden the hearts of the analysts at the research firm IHS, because it means it's time to tear the phones apart.
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Inspired By Ruby on Rails, Grails to Go Beyond Web App Dev
Open source web application framework Grails has been available since 2007, and has been used to deploy Netflix to the Amazon Web Services cloud.
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Utilities Try to Learn From Smart Meters
Utilities have installed more than 60 million smart meters in North America in the past decade.
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Nsa Efforts to Evade Encryption Technology Damaged .s. Cryptography Standard
In the three months since Edward Snowden began his whistle-blowing campaign against the National Security Agency (NSA) the former government contractor has exposed...
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Sweet! Tiny, Far-Flying Robot Based on Honeybee
Researchers are developing a flying robot based on the honeybee.
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A Computer Scientist's Approach to Medicine
Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer scientist Stephanie Seneff applies her natural language processing research to solving biological problems.
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Apple: The 64-Bit Question
There's been an interesting sideshow in tech land since Apple unveiled the iPhone 5S last week: Does having the first 64-bitmicroprocessor in a phone mean anything...
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Why Today's Inventors Need to Read More Science Fiction
How will police use a gun that immobilizes its target but does not kill? What would people do with a device that could provide them with any mood they desire? What...
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Google May Ditch 'cookies' As Online Ad Tracker
Google, the world's largest Internet search company, is considering a major change in how online browsing activity is tracked, a move that could shake up the $120...
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Ipad App Teaches Students Key Skill For Success in Math, Science, Engineering
Researchers have developed an iPad app designed to help students learn spatial visualization, which is needed to do well in science, math, and engineering.
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Rice Prof’s Sleuthing Helps Id Lost Van Gogh
A statistical analysis of X-ray images of the canvas beneath a painting helped to identify it as an authentic work by Vincent Van Gogh.
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NASA Curiosity Rover Detects No Methane on Mars
Data from NASA's Curiosity rover has revealed the Martian environment lacks methane. This is a surprise to researchers because previous data reported by U.S. and...
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Secret Court Declassifies Opinion Providing Rationale For Metadata Sharing
For the first time, the United States' most secret court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), has published its legal rationale as to why the ...
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The New National Identity Is What Smartphone You Prefer, and Nobody's Quite Sure Why
In a fascinating note at Asymco, mobile analyst and ex-Nokian Horace Dediu details how people's taste in smartphones varies from place to place:
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