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Blinding the Watchman
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Gps-Free Tech Can Track Miners' and Soldiers' Boots nderground
A mining crew is trapped deep underground after a cave-in. Firefighters run into a smoke-spewing high-rise to battle a violent blaze. A team of soldiers breaches...
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Google's Street View Goes Into the Wild
Google's Street View maps are headed into the backcountry. Earlier this week, two teams from Google strapped on sophisticated backpacks jammed with cameras, gyroscopes...
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In Mobile World, Tech Giants Scramble to Get p to Speed
Intel made its fortune on the chips that power personal computers, and Microsoft on the software that goes inside. Google’s secret sauce is that it finds what you...
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Google and Microsoft nder Threat from the March of the Mobiles
We're used to the idea of "peak oil"—that there's only a finite amount of that stuff in the ground. What's the equivalent in the computing field?
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Virtues of the Virtual Autopsy
Once a common medical procedure, the standard autopsy is passing out of use.
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Microsoft's Plan to Bring About the Era of Gesture Control
While most of the headlines about Microsoft this fall will concern its new operating system, Windows 8, and its new Surface tablet, the company is also working...
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ist Conference Presents Prototype Interface Projects
User interfaces have moved beyond mice and keyboards to touch screens, voice controls, and visual inputs like the Microsoft Kinect as was demonstrated at the recent...
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'live-Fire' Cyberwar-In-A-Box Tests Mettle of Military, It Pros
In August, a collection of military, government, and nongovernmental humanitarian organizations from 22 countries in the Pacific gathered in Singapore for Pacific...
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Another Advance on the Road to Spintronics
Researchers say spintronic technology could be used to make dilute magnetic semiconductors by adding a small amount of magnetic atoms to normal semiconductors,...
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Researchers Develop Fast Image Processing For Industry
Researchers at Sweden's Lulea University of Technology have developed LTU-CUDA, software for fast image-processing tasks.
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In Des Moines, Turning Off Beacon Unleashes a Storm
A Des Moines television station has turned off the lights on the city's Weather Beacon, igniting a tempest among residents who were raised to look downtown for...
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One Step Closer to a Brain
A few months ago Google shared with us another challenge it had taken on. It wasn't as fanciful as a driverless car or as geekily sexy as augmented reality glasses...
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3 Questions: A Web For Everyone
During the opening ceremonies of this summer’s Olympic games in London, a musical performance culminated with a stage-set house rising into the rafters to reveal...
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Steven Sinofsky: Microsoft's Controversial Mr. Windows 8
Two years ago, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie was working on a file synchronization technology that would make stashing and grabbing pictures, documents...
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Magic Finger Device Suggests New Day For Calling p Content
Researchers at Autodesk Research, the University of Alberta, and the University of Toronto have presented a new device called Magic Finger, which enables a user's...
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At Technology High School, Goal Isn't to Finish in 4 Years
Flakes of green paint are peeling from the third-floor windowsills.
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Zero-Day Attacks Are Meaner, More Rampant Than We Ever Thought
Computer attacks that target undisclosed vulnerabilities are more common and last longer than many security researchers previously thought. The finding comes from...
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A Complex Logic Circuit Made From Bacterial Genes
Washington University in St. Louis professor Tae Seok Moon hopes to develop biological circuits made from genes and regulatory proteins.
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Google Throws Open Doors to Its Top-Secret Data Center
If you're looking for the beating heart of the digital age—a physical location where the scope, grandeur, and geekiness of the kingdom of bits become manifest—you...
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