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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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On-Chip Random Key Generation Done sing Carbon Nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes are small and can be semiconducting, which makes lots of people excited about using them as a replacement for features etched in silicon.
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Tiny, Blurry Pictures Find the Limits of Computer Image Recognition
Computers have started to get really good at visual recognition.
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Gene Editing Shows Promise in Treating Muscular Dystrophy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is one of the most common fatal genetic diseases. It causes muscle degeneration and eventually death due to weakened heart and lung...
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Ipv6 Celebrates Its 20th Birthday By Reaching 10 Percent Deployment
Twenty years ago this month, RFC 1883 was published: Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification.
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Two Atoms Make Quantum Memory, Processing Gate, and Test of Entanglement
Quantum systems are inherently fragile as any interactions with the outside world can change their state.
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Attempt No Landing There? Yeah Right—We're Going to Europa
It is a nightmare glacier, tormented by the giant of our Solar System ever looming on its horizon.
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MIT ses Wireless Signals to Identify People Through Walls
MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab is developing a device that uses wireless signals to identify human figures through walls.
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How the Nsa Can Break Trillions of Encrypted Web and Vpn Connections
For years, privacy advocates have pushed developers of websites, virtual private network apps, and other cryptographic software to adopt the Diffie-Hellman cryptographic...
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How the Nfl—not the Nsa—is Impacting Data Gathering Well Beyond the Gridiron
As guards were going so far as to check inside NFL fans' wallets as part of routine security measures before a recent preseason game at Levi's Stadium, a different...
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Reflective Satellites May Be the Future of High-End Encryption
Quantum key distribution is regularly touted as the encryption of the future. While the keys are exchanged on an insecure channel, the laws of physics provide a...
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Robokiller Wins Ftc Prize By Annihilating Robocalls
A new technology called "RoboKiller" has won a $25,000 grand prize from the Federal Trade Commission in the agency's "Robocalls: Humanity Strikes Back" contest...
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Intel and Micron nveil 3d Xpoint, a Brand New Memory Technology
Intel and Micron have unveiled what appears to be the holy grail of memory.
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Toss Your Manual Overboard; Augmented Reality Aims at Big Industry
For better or for worse, augmented reality (AR) is charging forward in the consumer space—but there's a place for AR in the industrial world as well.
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'epic' Fail—how Opm Hackers Tapped the Mother Lode of Espionage Data
Government officials have been vague in their testimony about the data breaches—there was apparently more than one—at the Office of Personnel Management.
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Atomic Telescope Brings Atoms to Standstill
One of the abiding mysteries of physics is how to make the transition between quantum and classical objects.
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Nasa Bids Farewell to Messenger, Its Mercury Orbiter
A bit over 3,900 days ago, NASA sent a probe on a meandering course through the inner Solar System.
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Augmented Reality Gets to Work—and Gets Past the 'glassholes'
Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that has been on the cusp of becoming the next big thing for over 20 years.
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For a Brighter Robotics Future, It's Time to Offload Their Brains
Robots already stand in for humans in some of the dullest and most dangerous jobs there are, handling everything from painting cars to drilling rocks on Mars.
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Doing Astronomy with Neutrinos
The IceCube detector, located at the South Pole, monitors a cubic kilometer of ice for the flashes of light produced as energetic particles traverse the ice.
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