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NASA's 'Crazy' Robot Lab
It's three in the afternoon, and in their NASA lab in Silicon Valley, California, two engineers are playing with a toy designed for toddlers.
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Amateur Effort Finds New Largest Prime Number
The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project has scored its 14th consecutive victory, discovering the largest prime number so far.
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Which iPhone App May Get You Into Stanford? The One You Make
Standing out from the crowd of applicants vying to get into Stanford University's Computer Science undergraduate program is no easy task.
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Invisible Fences
When European farmers arrived in North America, they claimed it with fences.
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A Tiny Computer Attracts a Million Tinkerers
Raspberry Pi may sound like the name of a math-based dessert. But it is actually one of the hottest and cheapest little computers in the world right now.
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These Machines Will Be Able to Detect Smells Your Own Nose Cannot
Admittedly, it's a little hard to imagine smell scientists, but research published last week has those who study the sense of smell taking sides.
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Phreaks and Geeks
One of the most heartfelt—and unexpected—remembrances of Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide last month at the age of 26, came from Yale professor Edward Tufte.
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Drone Boosters Say Farmers, Not Cops, Are the Biggest .s. Robot Market
When the flying robots that loiter in Afghanistan's and Yemen's airspace come home, they won't just be headed for the local police station.
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Drone Home
A few months ago I borrowed a drone from a company called Parrot. Officially the drone is called an AR.Drone 2.0, but for simplicity's sake, we're just going to...
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Palm-Size Nano-Copter Is the Afghanistan War's Latest Spy Drone
British troops in Afghanistan are flying a drone that’s shrunk down to its essentials: a micro-machine that spies, built for a solitary user.
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Qihoo Takes on Baidu in China's Search Engine Wars
In the past few years, Zhou Hongyi, the 43-year-old co-founder of Chinese antivirus company Qihoo 360 Technology, has engaged in high-profile legal conflicts with...
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The Origins of 'big Data': An Etymological Detective Story
Words and phrases are fundamental building blocks of language and culture, much as genes and cells are to the biology of life.
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Meet the Data Brains Behind the Rise of Facebook
Jay Parikh sits at a desk inside Building 16 at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and his administrative assistant, Genie Samuel, sits next to...
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Behind the Scenes of Latin America's Internet 'brain'
It may be one of central Miami's most recognisable buildings, yet only a few people know what goes on inside the sturdy concrete block with massive spheres on its...
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Ticketmaster Dumps 'hated' Captcha Verification System
The world's largest online ticket retailer is to stop requiring users to enter hard-to-read words in order to prove they are human.
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Software Predicts Tomorrow's News By Analyzing Today's and Yesterday's
Researchers have created software that predicts when and where disease outbreaks might occur based on two decades of New York Times articles and other online data...
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Eric Schmidt nloads on China in New Book
Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is brutally clear: China is the most dangerous superpower on Earth.
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Scan May Detect Signs of Nfl Players' Brain Disease
An insidious, microscopic protein that has been found in the brain tissue of professional football players after death may now be detectable in living people by...
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