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All Hacking Eyes on the Prize Money at Cansecwest
When it comes to hacking, it turns out that greed really is good.
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Scientists Build Thinnest-Possible Leds to Be Stronger, More Energy Efficient
University of Washington researchers say they have developed the thinnest-known light-emitting diode that can be used as a source of light energy in electronics...
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Chipmaking: When Silicon Leaves the Valley
Researchers are pursuing new ways of making chips, as it grows increasingly difficult to fit more transistors onto a silicon wafer.
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AI Researcher Says Amoral Robots Pose a Danger to Humanity
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor Selmer Bringsjord says understanding morality is increasingly important as robots become smarter and more autonomous. ...
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How Did Life Arise? Fuel Cells May Have Answers
How life arose from the toxic and inhospitable environment of our planet billions of years ago remains a deep mystery.
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Where in the Solar System Are We Most Likely to Find Life?
Last week, NASA announced one of its most exciting missions in recent memory: a plan to visit Europa, one of Jupiter's largest moons.
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The Search For Aliens Is Just Getting Started
Over the past 50 years, several SETI projects have scoured the cosmos but have yet to turn up anything conclusive. What do you make of this cosmic radio-silence...
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Robot Project Aims to Help Doctors Diagnose Human Stroke Victims
Researchers are developing spring-loaded muscles for the Roboy robot.
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Stanford Students Show Phone Record Surveillance Can Yield Vast Amounts of Information
The National Security Agency's mass surveillance of telephone metadata could yield detailed information about the private lives of individuals far beyond what the...
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Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing
Soft robots—which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels—have become a sufficiently popular research topic...
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Gps Tech Built to Find Missing Aircraft Not Always Used
Aviation experts have cited multiple possible reasons for the problems in the multi-country effort to locate the Malaysia Airlines jetliner that dropped off the...
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Oscar-Winning Visual Effects Mastermind Behind Gravity, Talks Physics Lessons, Nasa Imagery, and Defining the Art of Cg 'weightlessness' in Space
Tim Webber is a visual effects supervisor who has worked on an array of critically acclaimed blockbusters.
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Mobile Devices of the Future Will Get Energy From Everywhere Except the Wall Socket
Scientists are advancing new wireless methods of harvesting power from the environment, people, and devices themselves.
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Space Diaries Reveal 6 Things on an Astronaut's Mind
While you are in space, could you keep a diary?
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Nasa's Wise Survey Finds Thousands of New Stars, But No 'planet X'
After searching hundreds of millions of objects across our sky, NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has turned up no evidence of the hypothesized...
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Bouncing Robot Could Soften Future Nasa Landings
‘Tensegrity’ provides an alternative to lots of rugged equipment.
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Cyberwar in kraine Falls Far Short of Russia's Full Powers
The tense on-the-ground standoff in Ukraine has already tipped into open hostilities online, with hackers targeting members of parliament and state agencies.
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Nanomaterial May Be Future of Hard Drives
Most magnets shrug off tiny temperature tweaks.
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Seeking Quantum-Ness: D-Wave Chip Passes Rigorous Tests
Researchers have shown the D-Wave One processor behaves in a way that agrees with a model called quantum Monte Carlo, yet disagrees with two candidate classical...
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