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Can We Trust the Code That Increasingly Runs Our Lives?
Imagine how different the first pictures sent from the Mars Rover would have been if there had been a software failure.
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Graphics Chips Are For More Than Just Eye Candy
Chances are there is a graphics chip in your desktop computer, and it is fuelling a revolution.
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World's Fastest Radio Telescope Starts p in Australian Outback
In the remote Australian outback, scientists have launched the world's fastest radio telescope which will exponentially increase astronomers' ability to survey...
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University of Minnesota Engineers Invent New Device That Could Increase Internet Download Speeds
A device that controls light could lead to faster Internet downloading speeds, more affordable Internet transmission costs, and lower power consumption.
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Alan Turing's Cyber-Legacy Praised By Gchq Chief
GCHQ director Iain Lobban recently gave a speech noting the many enduring lessons that could be drawn from Alan Turing's work.
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NASA Mars Curiosity Rover Prepares to Study Martian Soil
NASA's Curiosity rover is in a position on Mars where scientists and engineers can begin preparing the rover to take its first scoop of soil for analysis.
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In Europe, Speed Cameras Meet Their Technological Match
When Marc Guerin, a software salesman, drives the 38 kilometers from his home west of Paris to Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport, he seeks out the fastest route...
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New Tracking Frontier: Your License Plates
For more than two years, the police in San Leandro, Calif., photographed Mike Katz-Lacabe's Toyota Tercel almost weekly.
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Acoustic Cell-Sorting Chip May Lead to Cell Phone-Sized Medical Labs
Researchers have created a device that uses acoustic waves to sort a continuous flow of cells on a chip, and they believe it could lead to more efficient and less...
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DDoS Attacks on Major U.S. Banks Are No Stuxnet—Here's Why
The attacks that recently disrupted website operations at Bank of America and at least five other major U.S. banks used compromised Web servers to flood their targets...
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Nasa's Infrared Observatory Measures Expansion of Universe
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have announced the most precise measurement yet of the Hubble constant, or the rate at which our universe is stretching...
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Information Nation: Digital Social Experiment to Put a Human Face on Big Data
Imagine seeing life through one eyeball but then being given the ability to view the world through two or even three eyeballs at once.
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Controlling Curiosity: How Do You Drive a Mars Rover?
Engineers at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, have the ultimate iPhone app.
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The Cosmological Supercomputer
When it comes to reconstructing the past, you might think that astrophysicists have it easy. After all, the sky is awash with evidence,
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Digital Agenda: EU-Funded Research to Make the 'Cloud' Greener
The Eurocloud project aims to develop a 3D microchip that can drastically cut the electricity and the installation costs of servers in cloud computing data centers...
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A Smartphone in Your Glasses
EPFL researchers are developing a prototype of a pair of augmented glasses that allow the wearer to read messages, look at an itinerary, and receive a variety of...
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Megadroid: 300,000 Androids Clustered Together to Study Network Havoc
Anyone who builds an Android app knows that testing on real devices is important. But what if instead of testing on one device at a time, you could test 300,000...
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New Android Malware App Turns Phone Into Surveillance Device
Mobile malware has largely been limited to Trojans buried inside a malicious app targeting sensitive data stored on the phone such as email, contact information...
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U.s. Bank Website Hackers Used Advanced Botnets, Diverse Tools
The hackers behind the cyber attacks on major U.S. banks have repeatedly disrupted online banking by using sophisticated and diverse tools that point to a carefully...
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