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Cybersecurity Protects Food, Agriculture
Protecting the U.S. food supply from cyberattack.
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Bluebrain: Noah Hutton's 10-Year Documentary About the Mission to Reverse Engineer the Human Brain
"Nothing quite like it exists yet, but we have begun building it," Henry Markram wrote in the June 2012 issue of Scientific American. He was referring to a "fantastic...
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Almost Being There: Why the Future of Space Exploration Is Not What You Think
Mocup is a tiny, adorable remote-controlled robot built from a Lego Mindstorms set with an off-the-shelf Beagleboard computer for a brain and a webcam for an eye...
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How to Steal Data from Your Neighbor in the Cloud
Cloud computing teaches people not to worry about physical equipment for hosting data and running software.
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Cray Bumps IBM From Top500 Supercomputer Top Spot
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Titan supercomputer system, a Cray XK7, was named the world's fastest supercomputer in the latest edition of the Top500 list.
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S Gov Galvanises Aust Cyber-Security Experts
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently awarded an $18 million contract to a consortium of research groups, including National ICT Australia...
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Ok, App, What Should I Wear to This Wedding?
New software could help people decide what to wear for weddings, job interviews, or first dates.
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Good Connections to Molecular Electronics
Researchers from the Max Planck Society's Fritz Haber Institute have gleaned insights into the optimization of molecular wires from conductance measurements on...
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Moore's Law Is Becoming Irrelevant
Companies like Apple and Samsung are the public face of the smartphone and tablet boom, but they all rely on ARM, the British company that licenses the energy-efficient...
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From Sudan to Cyber, Secret War with Iran Hots Up
From a suspected Israeli airstrike in Sudan to cyber warfare in the Gulf and a drone shot down over Israel, the largely hidden war between Iran and its foes seems...
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Climate Likely to Be on Hotter Side of Projections
A new NASA-funded study by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colo., finds climate model projections that show a greater rise in global temperature...
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Eye Am a Camera: Surveillance and Sousveillance in the Glassage
Digital eye glasses like Google’s Project Glass, and my earlier Digital Eye Glass, will transform society because they introduce a two-sided surveillance and sousveillance...
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Mars to Earth: How to Send Hd Video Between Planets
"It once was a small step... now it's six big wheels," exclaimed Curiosity's Twitter account after the Nasa rover landed on Mars in early August. The message itself...
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Cray's Next Supercomputer Has Speedy Interconnect
Cray's new XC30 supercomputer, known as Aries, features a new interconnect and a new routing topology that together could dramatically improve internal bandwidth...
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Registration Open For 20th Annual Nasa Great Moonbuggy Race
Registration is open for the 20th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race, which challenges high school, college, and university students around the world to build and...
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Silicon Valley Technology Could Be Key to Connect Cars For Safer Driving
While Google's self-driving car is getting heaps of attention, a lesser-known effort that would employ Silicon Valley technologies to make regular automobiles safer...
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Apple Said to Be Exploring Switch From Intel For Mac
Apple Inc. is exploring ways to replace Intel Corp. processors in its Mac personal computers with a version of the chip technology it uses in the iPhone and iPad...
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Professor Develops Eye Tracking Technology
Texas State University researchers have developed ocular biometric software that can be used in the medical field to identify eye movements associated with concussions...
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Intel Researchers Work on New Way to Display, Share Images
Intel researchers are developing Display without Borders, a system to display photos and videos in order to make them more social and collaborative.
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Everyone Wants a Slice of Raspberry Pi
It's 9am on a lovely autumn morning at Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, just outside Geneva.
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