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Laser Beam Keeps Robo-Plane Buzzing For Two Days Straight
LaserMotive has demonstrated a power system that can keep Lockheed Martin's Stalker unmanned aerial vehicle going for more than 48 hours with laser light—but that's...
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Intel Fights to Keep Hp, Dell, and Other Customers from Defecting
Some of chip colossus Intel's biggest customers and partners are exploring a competing microprocessor design, signaling the start of a much-anticipated tech donnybrook...
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Wimpy Cores Are Coming to Facebook. But Which Cores?
Facebook has made waves by detailing its plans to use what an executive calls "cell-phone chips"—or "wimpy cores"—in its future data centers.
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Green500 Turns Blue
The 20 most energy efficient supercomputers the most recent Green500 rankings are all IBM Blue Gene/Q systems. Each of the top 20 systems delivered more than 2...
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Graphene Transistor Method Could Enable Fast Devices
University of California, Los Angeles researchers have developed a scalable method for fabricating self-aligned graphene transistors that could lead to high-speed...
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Solid-State Terahertz Devices Could Scan for Cancer
Cornell University researchers have developed a method of generating terahertz signals on an inexpensive silicon chip. The method uses mainstream CMOS technology...
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Future Planetary Rovers May Make Their Own Decisions
It's a hot summer day, and your eyes spot an ice cream cart up ahead. Without even really thinking, you start walking that direction. Planetary scientists would...
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The Drone Zone
Holloman Air Force Base, at the eastern edge of New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range, 200 miles south of Albuquerque, was once famous for the daredevil maneuvers...
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Google Remakes Online Empire With 'Colossus'
More than a decade ago, Google built a new foundation for its search engine.
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'most Realistic' Robot Legs Developed
University of Arizona researchers say they have developed the most biologically accurate robotic legs by replicating the central pattern generator, a neuronal network...
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Simulated Space 'terror' Offers Nasa an Online Following
The video is called "Seven Minutes of Terror," and describes, with the suspense and cinematography of a movie preview, what will happen next month when a one-ton...
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When Does An App Need Fda's Blessing?
Bernard Farrell obsesses over every bite he eats, every minute of exercise he gets, and everything that stresses him out. And, more than anything else, Farrell...
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Cybercriminals Sniff Out Vulnerable Firms
With cybercriminals a greater threat to small businesses than ever before, more entrepreneurs like Lloyd Keilson are left asking themselves who is to blame for...
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Pentagon Digs In on Cyberwar Front
The U.S. military is accelerating its cyberwarfare training programs in an aggressive expansion of its preparations for conflict on an emerging battlefield.
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Northwestern Researchers Create 'rubber-Band Electronics'
Northwestern University researchers have developed a design that enables electronics to bend and stretch more than 200 percent of their original size using a combination...
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How Software-Defined Radio Could Revolutionize Wireless
In 1976, two shaggy-haired college dropouts founded a company called Apple to manufacture personal computers. The company's prospects looked so poor that the third...
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Drone Hijacking? That
On the evening of June 19, a group of researchers from the University of Texas successfully hijacked a civilian drone at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico...
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The Robot of the Future That's About to Explore the Deep Past of Mars
I want to tell you about a special place on the surface of Mars. Back in the solar system's early days, a large object slammed into the red planet, leaving behind...
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The nified Theory of Wu
Virginia Tech Associate Professor at Wu-chun Feng, commonly known as "Wu," talks about productivity and his latest work on supercomputers.
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