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In Cuba, Mystery Shrouds Fate of Internet Cable
It was all sunshine, smiles and celebratory speeches as officials marked the arrival of an undersea fiber-optic cable they promised would end Cuba's Internet isolation...
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Leap Motion: 3D Hands-Free Motion Control, Unbound
Hands-free motion control, a technology pioneered by Nintendo's Wii and later improved upon by Microsoft's Kinect, just took a very big leap forward.
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University of Nevada, Reno Scientists Design Low-Cost Indoor Navigation System For Blind
University of Nevada, Reno researchers have developed Navatar, an indoor navigation system for people with visual impairments.
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'Adaptive Radio': The Next Big Thing in Wireless?
James Collier is loping in a broad circle on the Midsummer Common in Cambridge, England, holding aloft a two-foot fiberglass antenna.
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Meet the Man Who Invented the Instructions For the Internet
Steve Crocker was there when the Internet was born.
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New Research Could Mean Faster Computers and Better Smart Phones
University of Gothenburg researchers have found that graphene and carbon nanotubes could help reduce the size and power consumption of electronic circuits.
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Remember Stuxnet? Why the U.s. Is Still Vulnerable
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security revealed a rash of cyber attacks on natural gas pipeline companies. Just as with previous cyber attacks on infrastructure...
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Hot Trend in Computing: Chips That Sometimes Get It Wrong
Professor Krishna Palem of Rice University utilized a revolutionary form of computing known as "probablistic computing" to create a microchip that uses 30 times...
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Mind-Controlled Robot Arms Show Promise
Two people who are unable to move their limbs have been able to guide a robot arm to reach and grasp objects using only their brain activity, a paper in Nature ...
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Why Flipping Through Paper-Like Pages Endures in the Digital World
When Instapaper developer Marco Arment updated his popular offline reading app for the iPad, something was different. Instapaper's normal pagination action—rendering...
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Floating Robots Use Gps-Enabled Smartphones to Track Water Flow
University of California, Berkeley researchers have developed the Floating Sensor Network project, which offers a network of mobile sensors that can be rapidly...
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Here Comes the Sunstorm
With a peak in the cycle of solar flares approaching, U.S. electricity regulators are weighing their options for protecting the nation's grid from the sun's eruptions—including...
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Researchers Propose Solution to 'Bufferbloat'
Xerox PARC's Van Jacobson and Pollere's Kathleen Nichols have developed Controlled Delay, a queue management mechanism designed to solve the "bufferbloat" problem...
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The Elusive Capacity of Networks
Researchers at MIT, the California Institute of Technology, and the University of Technology in Munich have shown that in a wired network, network coding and error...
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Free, Browser-Based 'wolfenstein 3d' Released By Bethesda
Bethesda Softworks has released a free, browser-based version of the iconic first-person shooter, Wolfenstein 3D.
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Implanted User Interfaces: I've Got You Under My Skin
The human body is regularly augmented with technology, from pacemakers and hearing aids to magnets people embed under their skin to give them a new sense. However...
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Intel Futurist on Why We Should Not Fear the Future
Much of Intel's success as a microprocessor manufacturer over the past four decades has come from the company's ability to understand and anticipate the future...
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Iran Slams Google for Leaving Persian Gulf Nameless
Iran on Saturday criticized Google for leaving the body of water separating it from the Arabian peninsula nameless on its online map service, saying it would hurt...
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