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Blinding the Watchman
Internet constellations could thwart killer asteroid discovery algorithms.
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Submarine Internet Cables Are a Gift For Spooks
It's a golden age for spying. The subsea fibre-optic cables that carry telephone and Internet traffic are a technological marvel—and a gift to intelligence agencies...
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The Watchers
Looking down from 500 miles above Earth's surface, you could watch the FedEx Custom Critical Delivery truck move across the country along 3,140 miles of highway...
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Rosphere: a Spherical Robot For Exploration Missions
The ROSPHERE spherical robot has no wheels or legs, but is able to scroll by itself to conduct missions in wild environments, and is inherently stable.
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New Algorithm Finds Best Routes For One-Way Car Sharing
A newly developed vehicle-routing algorithm is designed to help rebalance one-way vehicle-sharing systems.
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Gauging the Risk of Fraud From Social Media
A researcher is working to enable more accurate predictions of a person's risk of fraudulent behavior by linking social media data with government data.
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Privacy Paradox: Americans Happy to Share Personal Data With Big Business
It's official: Americans may freak out when government collects their data to track terrorists, but they would happily have banks use it to catch some jerk trying...
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N.s.a. Leak Puts Focus on System Administrators
Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked details about American surveillance, personifies a debate at the heart of technology...
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Linux Foundation Sees Broadening Role For Developers
The Linux Foundation is expanding its training options to help Linux developers.
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Printing Tiny Batteries
Researchers have printed precisely interlaced stacks of tiny battery electrodes, each less than the width of a human hair.
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Tech Stars Get the Superhero Treatment
A new line of comic books tells the life stories of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and other leaders in high technology.
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Keeping Computers Cool From the Inside
New techniques could cut the power required to avoid overheating.
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Google Street View Maps First Skyscraper, Dubai's Burj-Khalifa
For years, the Google Street View team has captured the world's most interesting places and put the 360-degree imagery on Google Maps for the world to experience...
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A New Method that Is 700 Times Faster Than the Norm Is Developed to Magnify Digital Images
Researchers have developed an algorithm that can magnify images 700 times faster than conventional methods.
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Cheap, Color, Holographic Video
A new way to create holograms could significantly lower the cost of color holographic-video displays and boost conventional 2D display resolution.
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Sandia Hosts Annual Robot Rodeo
The Western National Robot Rodeo and Capability Exercise draws bomb squad teams to see who can most effectively use robots to defuse dangerous situations.
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Web's Reach Binds N.s.a. and Silicon Valley Leaders
When Max Kelly, the chief security officer for Facebook, left the social media company in 2010, he did not go to Google, Twitter, or a similar Silicon Valley concern...
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A Detailed 3-D Atlas of a Human Brain
BigBrain is an electronic model that will enable scientists to explore the anatomy of a single brain in far greater detail than previously possible.
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Sizing p Big Data, Broadening Beyond the Internet
In his young career, Jeffrey Hammerbacher has been a scout on the frontiers of the data economy.
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Where Rich People Live (AKA Maps of iPhone Use)
Our stuff often says a lot about us, whether we own a hybrid car or a station wagon, a MacBook Pro or an ancient desktop.
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