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MIT Wants Tomorrow’s Soldiers to Talk Through Their Shirts
The Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies is developing microscopic fibers that can be woven into soldiers' uniforms to enable them to communicate with other soldiers...
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Google Searches For Style
Google is in discussions with online eyeglass retailer Warby Parker to create a more stylish version of its Google Glass frames.
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How Secure Is the Papal Election?
As the College of Cardinals prepares to elect a new pope, security people like me wonder about the process. How does it work, and just how hard would it be to hack...
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How Google Retooled Android With Help From Your Brain
When Google built the latest version of its Android mobile operating system, the Web giant made some big changes to the way the OS interprets your voice commands...
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U.s. Ups Ante For Spying on Firms
The White House threatened China and other countries with trade and diplomatic action over corporate espionage as it cataloged more than a dozen cases of cyberattacks...
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Braess' Paradox Infects Social Networks Too, Say Computer Scientists
The paradox that adding extra roads to a network can lead to greater congestion, may be seen in social networks, too.
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Top .s. Stealth Jet Has to Talk to Allied Planes Over nsecured Radio
For the first time, America's top-of-the-line F-22 fighters and Britain's own cutting-edge Typhoon jets have come together for intensive, long-term training in...
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Exposé of Chinese Data Thieves Reveals Sloppy Tactics
A beige office block in Shanghai's suburbs belonging to the Chinese army became world famous on Tuesday after Mandiant, a Washington-based computer security company...
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Using 3D Worlds to Visualize Data
Take a walk through a human brain? Fly over the surface of Mars?
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Can You Feel Me Now? The Sensational Rise of Haptic Interfaces
Your first experience with haptics was probably your phone vibrating in your pocket.
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The Drones Come Home
At the edge of a stubbly, dried-out alfalfa field outside Grand Junction, Colorado, Deputy Sheriff Derek Johnson, a stocky young man with a buzz cut, squints at...
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Tongue-Tingling Interface Lets You Taste Data
A new device called Tongueduino can turn the tongue into a 'display' for output from environmental sensors.
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Picture-Perfect
MIT researchers have developed a processor chip that can quickly create more realistic or enhanced lighting in a photograph.
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Future Science: sing 3D Worlds to Visualize Data
Researchers are conducting experiments with CAVE2, a virtual world consisting of eight-foot-high screens and 72 stereoscopic LCD panels.
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When Will the Internet Reach Its Limit (and How Do We Stop It from Happening)?
The number of smartphones, tablets and other network-connected gadgets will outnumber humans by the end of the year.
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Software that Tracks People on Social Media Created By Defence Firm
A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social...
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Crowds Prowl Google Street View to Speed Road Repairs
Software developed by a team at the University of Maryland at College Park makes use of crowdsourcing to report road problems to local governments.
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Robots With Lift
Harvard University researchers have developed a soft robot that can leap up to one foot in the air using small explosions.
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Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.s.
On the outskirts of Shanghai, in a run-down neighborhood dominated by a 12-story white office tower, sits a People's Liberation Army base for China’s growing corps...
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