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Self-Steering Bullet Researched By U.s. Weapons Experts
A self-guiding bullet that can steer itself towards its target is being developed for use by the U.S. military.
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The Great Disk Drive in the Sky: How Web Giants Store Big
Consider the tech it takes to back the search box on Google's home page: behind the algorithms, the cached search terms, and the other features that spring to life...
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Graphene Competitor sed to Make Circuits
The first logic circuits made using atom-thick sheets of molybdenite suggest the material could be an alternative to graphene as a possible solution to the problem...
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Phase-Change Materials Can Fix Machine Memory Crunch
Phase-change materials (PCMs) could thwart the limits of digital memory and enable a massive increase in storage density. PCM's biggest advantage is that it can...
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Shrunken Servers Aim For a Greener Internet
As the cloud becomes more pervasive—driving everything from social networking to mobile apps—the computers that power it must guzzle more and more energy.
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DARPA Takes Aim at "achilles Heel" of Advanced Computing: Power
The power required to increase computing performance, especially in embedded or sensor systems has become a serious constraint and is restricting the potential...
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DARPA-Funded Hacker's Tiny $50 Spy Computer Hides in Offices, Drops From Drones
A U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency researcher has developed the Falling or Ballistically-launched Object that Makes Backdoors (F-BOMB), a sensor-equipped...
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Movement in Space
Microsoft's drive to integrate Kinect technology into a wide array of products is not slowing.
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Russia Blames Mars Probe Failure on Space Radiation
Russia blamed radiation on Tuesday for a computer glitch that doomed its Mars moon mission, but space industry experts cast doubt on the findings of an investigation...
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New Breed of Electron Interactions in Quantum Systems
University of New South Wales scientists have published research suggesting that quantum electronics could be driven by the orbital nature of electrons, and not...
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Apple Introduces S to the Wild World of Coded Magnets
Once in a while we're treated to a new Apple invention that virtually contains a new self-contained world of possibilities and vocabulary to enrich it.
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Pinch-Screen Puts All Your Fingers in Control
Tablet computers and smartphones are designed to be used by a person's thumbs, but a new device developed by the Technical University of Berlin's Katrin Wolf enables...
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Researchers Devise New Means For Creating Elastic Conductors
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a method for creating elastic conductors made of carbon nanotubes, which they say could lead to the large...
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Researchers Corral Chip Power-Performance Requirements
Researchers are exploring ways to improve the energy efficiency of microprocessor hardware and software as next-generation chips and languages grow even more power...
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Intel Sees Exabucks in Supercomputing's Future
Last Monday, Intel shelled out $125 million to buy Infiniband from Qlogic, a little-known maker of data-center networking switches and cards. At first blush, it...
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Pursuing Iphone Thief, Officer Knew Right Buttons to Push
As crime-solving tools go, it may not have the same pedigree as, say, the oversize magnifying glass.
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Humans Lose, Robots Win in New Defense Budget
The big loser in the Pentagon’s new budget? Ordinary human beings.
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Smallest-Ever Nanotube Transistors Outperform Silicon
IBM researchers have developed a nine-nanometer carbon-nanotube transistor that performs better than any other transistor at its size.
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Durable Nasa Rover Beginning Ninth Year of Mars Work
Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA's enduring Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is working on what essentially...
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