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Pen-Based Computing: Still Looking For The Write App
The sector, once popular, is searching for applications and users.
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Why Nasa Looks to Europa to Find the Building Blocks of Life
When it comes to life, biologists have long hypothesised that its origins—on Earth, at least—were in thermal vents on the ocean floor, following a period of ...
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Hacker Mitnick Has a Plan to Help You Stay Safe Online
Even famed hacker Kevin Mitnick—labeled a "computer terrorist" by the FBI in the '90s—worries about getting hacked.
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Digital Reconstruction Restores Rare Dino Skull
Dinosaur fossils are valuable resources—yet access to them can be tricky.
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Self-Driving Car Advocates Tangle With Messy Morality
Sure, dealing with lane changes, firetrucks and construction projects is difficult for engineers building self-driving cars. But what about deciding which people...
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Vimeo Tech Chief Takes on 'terrifying' Online Video Challenges
Think online video is old hat? Think again.
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The Scent of a Comet: Rotten Eggs and Pee
Eau de Comet isn't, we now know, the most seductive scent floating around in our galaxy. The Rosetta probe's Rosetta Orbiter Sensor for Ion and Neutral Analysis...
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Intel Meets its 'makers,' with Chips For Diy Set and the Firms They'll Found
Intel's Edison chip has been launched in a rocket, floated in a weather balloon, fitted into a futuristic light-emitting dress and used to power a dancing robot...
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Internet of Things Gets a Hand from Arm's New Operating System
Desktops have Linux. Mobile devices have Android. The Internet of Things has...Mbed?
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Tiny Robot Learns to Fly a Real Plane
A small, hobby-sized robot could herald the pilot of the future.
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Scientists Make Quantum Leap, Teleport Data from Light to Matter
We're one step closer to creating the Ansible communicator in "Ender's Game," the warp drive envisioned by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre and a "Star Trek"...
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The History of the Predator, the Drone that Changed the World
These days, the word drone is used to refer to just about any kind of remote-controlled, unmanned aircraft.
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Loneliness Narrows the Uncanny Valley
Talking to inanimate objects when you're feeling lonely may not be so strange after all.
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Brain-to-Brain Verbal Communication in Humans Achieved For the First Time
Humans just got a step closer to being able to think a message into someone else's brain on the other side of the world.
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Can an Armadillo Paper Airplane Fly? Autodesk Says Yes
We've all made the standard paper airplane, that elongated triangle made up of six simple folds.
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'internet of Things,' Not Privacy, to Dominate at Black Hat
As many as 13 previously unknown vulnerabilities in home Wi-Fi routers and networked storage systems are set to be disclosed at the Black Hat computer security...
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Experimental Software Allows 3D Object Manipulation in 2d Photos
The scene in Blade Runner is famous: taking a grainy photo, Rick Deckard zooms, enhances and moves around corners just as you would a 3D space.
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No Guts, All Glory at Robot Soccer World Cup
Spectacular falls, miraculous goals, and footwork that would put the Premier League to shame—RoboCup 2014 has seen it all.
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Arm Tries to Spread Its Chips to Forests, Felds, and Factories
Forest fire on the way? Building stress getting too high? Farmland too moist?
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New York Subway Cell Coverage Stinks, But Here Are the Best Lines
The New York City subway system may run 24 hours a day and represent the most efficient means to get around the metropolis, but it has long been a sore spot for...
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