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We're Ahead of Schedule to Turn 'star Trek' Tech Into Reality
Most Star Trek stories from the vaunted franchise turning 50 this week take place in a distant future we're not likely to see.
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It's Official: You're Lost in a Directionless niverse
Ever peer into the night sky and wonder whether space is really the same in all directions or if the cosmos might be whirling about like a vast top?
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Nasa Aims at an Asteroid Holding Clues to the Solar System's Roots
For the next two years, NASA's latest robotic spacecraft will be chasing down an asteroid near Earth in the hopes of scooping up some of the most primordial bits...
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Mars Contamination Fear Could Divert Curiosity Rover
Four years into its travels across Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover faces an unexpected challenge: wending its way safely among dozens of dark streaks that could indicate...
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Carbon Nanotube Transistors Finally Outperform Silicon
Back in the 1990s, observers predicted that the single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) would be the nanomaterial that pushed silicon aside and created a post-CMOS...
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Jupiter's North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System
NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back the first-ever images of Jupiter's north pole, taken during the spacecraft's first flyby of the planet with its instruments...
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What Starlight Teaches S About Space (pretty Much Everything)
In the southern sky, there is a constellation called Centaurus, its arms outstretched and its flanks straddling the famous Southern Cross.
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Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research
A lonely 3-mile-high (5-kilometer-high) mountain on Ceres is likely volcanic in origin, and the dwarf planet may have a weak, temporary atmosphere.
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Building a New Tor that Can Resist Next-Generation State Surveillance
Since Edward Snowden stepped into the limelight from a hotel room in Hong Kong three years ago, use of the Tor anonymity network has grown massively.
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A Call From Outer Space, or a Cosmic Wrong Number?
It's probably just a piece of cosmic spam, the astrophysical equivalent of butt dialing. But nobody really knows for sure.
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New Digital Antenna Could Revolutionize the Future of Mobile Phones
Aalto University researchers have developed a method that enables antennas to make the shift from the analog to the digital world.
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Intelligent Technology--the Evolution and Future of Automation
Researchers argue core principles of automation and artificial intelligence must be reconsidered as the world experiences an information technology shift.
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Revealed: Google's Plan For Quantum Computer Supremacy
Somewhere in California, Google is building a device that will usher in a new era for computing.
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Forget Software: Now Hackers Are Exploiting Physics
Practically every word we use to describe a computer is a metaphor.
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The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors
Transistors, the electronic amplifiers and switches found at the heart of everything from pocket radios to warehouse-size supercomputers, were invented in 1947.
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Here's How Russian Hackers Could Actually Tip an American Election
Reports this week of Russian intrusions into U.S. election systems have startled many voters, but computer experts are not surprised.
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How Driverless Cars May Interact With People
There are plenty of unanswered questions about how self-driving cars would function in the real world, like understanding local driving customs and handing controls...
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Nasa's Next-Gen Ships Run on Last-Gen Chips
Earlier this summer, NASA announced that ARM Holdings' A53 will be the microprocessor core design at the heart of the agency's next generation of spacecraft.
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