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Miracle Material Graphene Could Deliver Internet One Hundred Times Faster
Researchers have demonstrated incredibly short optical response rates using graphene, which could lead to much faster Internet speeds.
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Silicon Oxide Memories Transcend a Hurdle
Researchers have developed a one-kilobit rewritable silicon oxide device with diodes that eliminate data-corrupting crosstalk.
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Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell
Like dozens of other brick-and-mortar retailers,Nordstrom wanted to learn more about its customers—how many came through the doors, how many were repeat visitors—the...
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Fact or Fiction: Encryption Prevents Digital Eavesdropping
Since the dawn of the Web and ubiquitous free e-mail services over the past two decades, the need to secure personal information online has been evident but often...
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Canadian Team Claims $250,000 Prize For Human-Powered Helicopter
The Canadian AeroVelo team has done what many thought impossible.
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Breakthrough Could Lead to 'artificial Skin' That Senses Touch, Humidity, and Temperature
A newly developed flexible sensor out of tiny gold particles could be used to create electronic skin.
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Robot Mom Would Beat Robot Butler in Popularity Contest
Researchers have found that people express more positive feelings toward a robot that takes care of them than toward a robot that needs care.
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Computational Photography: The Snap Is Only the Start
Imagine a camera that allows you to see through a crowd to get a clear view of someone who would otherwise be obscured, a smartphone that matches big-budget lenses...
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Researchers Find Bug Bounty Programs Pay Economic Rewards
Bug bounty programs can be as much as 100 times more cost-effective for finding security vulnerabilities than hiring full-time security researchers to do the same...
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Modest Debut of Atlas May Foreshadow Age of 'robo Sapiens'
Moving its hands as if it were dealing cards and walking with a bit of a swagger, a Pentagon-financed humanoid robot named Atlas made its first public appearance...
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5d Optical Memory in Nanostructured Quartz Glass Could Lead to nlimited Lifetime Data Storage
Researchers have experimentally demonstrated the recording and retrieval process of five-dimensional digital data in nanostructured glass by femtosecond laser writing...
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Graphene May Give US Cooler, Longer-Lasting Computers
Cooling is an important and tricky part of modern computing—you don't want those ever-more-functional processors overheating, but you also don't want the cooling...
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Touchscreens 'a Small Step' in Innovation
The way we use digital devices has become big news.
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Nasa's Opals to Beam Data From Space Via Laser
NASA will use the International Space Station to test a new communications technology that could dramatically improve spacspacecraft communications, enhance commercial...
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Kremlin Returns to Typewriters to Avoid Computer Leaks
A source at Russia's Federal Guard Service, which is in charge of safeguarding Kremlin communications and protecting President Vladimir Putin, claimed that the...
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Human Motion Will Power the Internet of Things, Say Energy Harvesting Engineers
The Internet of Things is the imagined network of data links that will emerge when everyday objects are fitted with tiny identifying devices.
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Toward Tinier Transistors
Researchers are studying how to make the next generation of transistors smaller.
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Powerful Animal Tracking System Helps Research Take Flight
The new Environmental-Data Automated Track Annotation system enables users to take a big data approach to tracking birds.
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Researchers Build an All-Optical Transistor
Researchers have created an optical switch that’s controlled by a single photon.
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