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Start-Up Attempts to Convert Prof Hawking's Brainwaves Into Speech
An American scientist is to unveil details of work on the brain patterns of Prof Stephen Hawking he says could help safeguard the physicist's ability to communicate...
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Hackers Steal BMWs in 3 Minutes Using Security Loophole
There has been an unusual spike in the number of BMWs stolen in the U.K. this year, with some sources suggesting the number may be 300 cars or higher. The cars...
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Mind Control Moves Into Battle
Technology that taps into a soldier's thought patterns could soon see action on the battlefield.
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New Technology Slashes Data Center Energy Consumption
A new energy-aware plug-in can reduce energy consumption in data centers by more than 20 percent, according to researchers with the European Union-funded FIT4Green...
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Mars Panorama: Next Best Thing to Being There
From fresh rover tracks to an impact crater blasted billions of years ago, a newly completed view from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration...
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Nbc, Google, Stage 'war Games' To Prepare For Olympic Disruptions
NBC and Google are conducting "war games" in at least three countries, to prepare for the possibility of hacker attacks or hardware malfunction disrupting the online...
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England V Germany: Goal-Line Technology Decision Imminent
Football's world governing body Fifa and other organisations are preparing to vote on something many fans of the game have been crying out for: goal-line technology...
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Want a Terabyte Ipad? Then You'll Want to Read This
In the latter half of the 19th century, the introduction of elevators and steel trusses enabled us to put up taller buildings with denser cores. It changed urban...
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In Silicon Valley, Hardware Is Hot Again
Since the mid-1990s Liam Casey, PCH International's chief executive officer, has helped technology companies with the nastiest task in Silicon Valley: building...
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Melanin Considered for Bio-Friendly Electronics
University of Queensland researchers recently published a study that provides insight into the electrical properties of melanin and its biologically compatible...
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Clothing the Body Electric
Electronics will be part of our wardrobe in the future, says University of South Carolina professor Xiaodong Li, who has turned the material in a cotton T-shirt...
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A Code of Conduct, For Drones?
It's a bird. It's a plane. Actually, it's a drone. And now those unmanned aircraft, best known for being used by the U.S. to kill terrorism suspects overseas, have...
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Jobs vs. Gates, Redux
It’s difficult to find two people who have had a greater influence on people’s lives than Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
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Silicon Valley's Top Threat Is China, Survey Finds
Many high-level technology executives are convinced that some other country, probably China, will supplant Silicon Valley as the global center for innovation within...
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Google's Futuristic Glasses Move Closer to Reality
Google recently announced that it is selling a prototype of its Internet-connected glasses, known as Google Glasses, to U.S. computer programmers for $1,500, hoping...
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'leap Second' Bug Wreaks Havoc Across Web
Reddit, Mozilla, Gawker, and possibly many other web outfits experienced brief technical problems on Saturday evening, when software underpinning their online operations...
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Your E-Book Is Reading You
It takes the average reader just seven hours to read the final book in Suzanne Collins's "Hunger Games" trilogy on the Kobo e-reader—about 57 pages an hour.
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Researchers se Spoofing to 'hack' Into a Flying Drone
American researchers took control of a flying drone by hacking into its GPS system—acting on a $1,000 (£640) dare from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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A Robot Takes Stock
The short figure creeping around the Carnegie Mellon University campus store in a hooded sweatshirt recently isn't some shoplifter, but a robot taking inventory...
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