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Blinding the Watchman
Internet constellations could thwart killer asteroid discovery algorithms.
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Why You Can't Vote Online Tuesday
A decade and a half into the Web revolution, we do much of our banking and shopping online. So why can't we vote over the Internet? The answer is that voting presents...
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Intel Wants to Put a Supercomputer in Your Pocket
Five years from now, says Intel, your phone could double as a supercomputer. That's the goal of Intel's experimental Single-chip Cloud Computer project, or SCC.
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Efficiency Breakthrough Promises Smartphones that Use Half the Power
Powering cellular base stations around the world will cost $36 billion this year—chewing through nearly 1 percent of all global electricity production. Much of...
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The States with the Riskiest Voting Technology
Next Tuesday's presidential election will likely be extremely close, magnifying the potential impact of vote-counting errors.
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Quantum Entanglement Shows that Reality Can't Be Local
Quantum entanglement stands as one of the strangest and hardest concepts to understand in physics.
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Ping-Pong Robot Learns to Play Like a Person
A robot that learns to play ping-pong from humans and improves as it competes against them could be the best robotic table-tennis challenger the world has seen.
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Why Is This Supercomputer So Superfast?
The world's fastest supercomputers have come back to the U.S. In June, the title was claimed by a machine named Sequoia at Lawrence Livermore Labs. Monday, at the...
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The World Is Not Enough: Google and the Future of Augmented Reality
It is The Future. You wake up at dawn and fumble on the bedstand for your (Google) Glass. Peering out at the world through transparent screens, what do you see?
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Most U.s. Drones Openly Broadcast Secret Video Feeds
Four years after discovering that militants were tapping into drone video feeds, the U.S. military still hasn't secured the transmissions of more than half of its...
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When Is a Cyberattack an Act of War?
On the night of Oct. 11, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta stood inside the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, housed in a former aircraft carrier moored at a New...
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The 'copycat' War: Iran Strikes Back
The growing evidence that Iran was behind a number of recent cyber attacks against Western and Arab institutions has raised concerns in many quarters about how...
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.s. Looks to Replace Human Surveillance with Computers
Computer software programmed to detect and report illicit behavior could eventually replace the fallible humans who monitor surveillance cameras.
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A Spy-Gear Arms Race Transforms Modern Divorce
Danny Lee Hormann suspected his wife was having an affair.
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The Consequences of Machine Intelligence
The question of what happens when machines get to be as intelligent as and even more intelligent than people seems to occupy many science-fiction writers.
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Rapture of the Nerds: Will the Singularity Turn S Into Gods or End the Human Race?
Hundreds of the world’s brightest minds—engineers from Google and IBM, hedge funds quants, and Defense Department contractors building artificial intelligence—were...
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Robots Get Around By Mimicking Primates
Give a friend directions, such as, "it's across the street from a petrol station, just after a red brick building on the right..." and you can be pretty sure they'll...
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Nasa's Spitzer Sees Light of Lonesome Stars
A new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggests a cause for the mysterious glow of infrared light seen across the entire sky.
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New Finding Could Pave Way to Faster, Smaller Electronics
University of California, Davis researchers are using a new technique to investigate the magnetic properties of gallium manganese arsenide, a type of dilute magnetic...
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ahuntsville Students Hope Glove Keyboard Will Revolutionize se of Devices With One Hand
University of Alabama Huntsville engineering students have developed the generally accessible universal nomadic tactile low-power electronic typist keyboard, a...
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