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Developing Unbreakable Phone Screens
Seeking to head off a shattering experience when a smartphone is dropped.
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'next Gen Stats' Offer New Insights For Nfl Fans and Coaches
As Richard Sherman sprints side-by-side with Calvin Johnson, who is running faster?
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Latest Self-Driving Google Car Heading to Public Streets
Google has announced plans to debut the latest version of its self-driving car on public roads this summer.
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Self-Driving Cars Getting Dinged in California
Four of the nearly 50 self-driving cars now rolling around California have gotten into accidents since September, when the state began issuing permits for companies...
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Nyc Subways Slowly pgrading from 1930s-Era Technology
New York City's subways—the nation's biggest mass transit network—serve more than 6 million daily riders who depend largely on a signal system that dates back to...
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MIT Engineers Have High Hopes For Cheetah Robot
A new cheetah-inspired robot can run on batteries at speeds of more than 10 miles per hour, jump about 16 inches high, land safely, and continue running for 15...
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How to Teach Self-Driving Cars Ethics of the Road
A large truck speeding in the opposite direction suddenly veers into your lane.
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MIT Finger Device Reads to the Blind in Real Time
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing an audio reading device to be worn on the index finger of people whose vision is impaired...
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Michigan Man Among 1st in U.s. to Get 'bionic Eye'
A degenerative eye disease slowly robbed Roger Pontz of his vision.
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Call of Cyber Duty: Military Academies Take on Nsa
If Douglas MacArthur or Ulysses S. Grant went to the U.S. Military Academy today, they might be testing their defensive skills hunched in front of a computer screen...
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High-Tech Items Giving Deaf-Blind Online Access
Tanisha Verdejo loves to surf the Internet for shopping deals. She chats on Facebook, learns about new recipes and enjoys sending emails to friends and family.
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Nsa Surveillance Exposes Political Party Divisions
The debate about whether to continue the dragnet surveillance of Americans' phone records is highlighting divisions within the Democratic and Republican parties...
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Fda Approves Pill Camera to Screen Colon
A kinder, gentler approach to one of the most dreaded exams in medicine is on the way: U.S. regulators have cleared a bite-size camera to help screen patients who...
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Selling Social Media Clicks Becomes Big Business
Celebrities, businesses, and even the U.S. State Department have bought bogus Facebook likes, Twitter followers or YouTube viewers from offshore "click farms,"...
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Pilot se of Automation Eyed in Air Crashes
Pilots are becoming so reliant on the computer systems that do most of the flying in today's airliners that on the rare occasions when something goes wrong, they're...
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Fledgling 3D Printing Industry Finds Home in Nyc
It looks like a bakery. A warm glow emanates from the windows of big, oven-like machines, and a dusting of white powder covers everything.
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Nsa Revelations Reframe Digital Life For Some
In Louisiana, the wife of a former soldier is scaling back on Facebook posts and considering unfriending old acquaintances, worried an innocuous joke or long-lost...
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In Worldwide Surveillance Age, U.s. Has Big Edge
The saga of Edward Snowden and the NSA makes one thing clear: The United States' central role in developing the Internet and hosting its most powerful players has...
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Secret to Prism Program: Even Bigger Data Seizure
In the months and early years after 9/11, FBI agents began showing up at Microsoft Corp. more frequently than before, armed with court orders demanding information...
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ssr's Old Domain Name Attracts Cybercriminals
The Soviet Union disappeared from the map more than two decades ago. But online an 'e-vil empire' is thriving.
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