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Infrared and 3D Vision Systems Combine to Help Pilots Avoid Crash Landings
When large airliners approach an airport for a landing, a combination of radio signals and high-intensity lighting shows the pilot exactly where the runway is,...
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Wireless Sensors Monitor Brain-Waves on the Fly
A fighter pilot heads back to base after a long mission, feeling spent. A warning light flashes on the control panel.
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Tiny Biocomputers Move Closer to Reality
Several research groups are developing DNA-based circuits that could one day monitor and treat disease from inside the body.
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Did a U.s. Radar Research Station Disable Russia's Phobos Probe?
Soon after the ill-fated Phobos-Grunt spacecraft stalled in Earth orbit, a former Russian official implicated "powerful American radars" in Alaska. Is there a...
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Cyberwar Most Likely to Take Place Among Smaller Powers, Experts Say
Most Americans who worry about cyberwarfare are concerned that it will be directed against the United States. But the truth is that cyber conflict is far more...
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Panoramic Tool Lets sers Observe Dynamic Imagery
New imagery available through Carnegie Mellon's GigaPan Time Machine lets users move in space and time to explore the sun, a beehive, or the chlorophyll content...
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IBM Simulates 4.5% of the Human Brain, and All of the Cat Brain
Supercomputers can store more information than the human brain and can calculate a single equation faster, but even the biggest, fastest supercomputers in the world...
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Precision-Controlled Microbots Show They Could Take On Industrial-Scale Jobs
A pioneering research institute that introduced the computer world to the mouse, hypertext, and networks is now setting its sights a bit lower.
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Instant Health Checks For Buildings and Bridges
During 2011's deadly onslaught of earthquakes, floods and tornadoes, countless buildings had to be evacuated while workers checked to make sure they were stable...
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Security and Surveillance Pervades Post-9/11 New York City
From building-blocking bollards to millimeter-wave scanners, the September 11 terrorist attacks have led to significant changes in security techniques and technology...
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A Test For Consciousness
How will we know when we've built a sentient computer? By making it solve a simple puzzle.
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Why Bayes Rules: The History of a Formula That Drives Modern Life
Google has a small fleet of robotic cars that since autumn have driven themselves for thousands of miles on the streets of Northern California without once striking...
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Online 24/7: "life Logging" Pioneer Clarifies the Future of Cloud Computing
Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell, paperless for more than a decade, envisions data centers saturated with information and services readily available via the...
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Car Computer Controls Could Be Vulnerable to Hackers
Researchers claim to wirelessly break into automobile networks to take control of brakes and steering as the automobile industry shores up defenses.
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Being John Malkovich: Personal Control of Individual Brain Cells
In philosophy of mind, a "cerebroscope" is a fictitious device, a brain-computer interface in today's language, which reads out the content of somebody's brain...
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Hackers Harness Microsoft's Kinect For Business and Pleasure
Gamers and hackers could control the office as well as games with Microsoft's Kinect.
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Solid-State Memories Pave the Way to Practical Quantum Communication
Two groups of physicists have managed to shift the quantum entanglement between two photons onto an entangled state between one photon and a quantum memor.
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How Can Online Advertising Companies Be Kept from Tracking Web Surfers?
The FTC is calling for "do not track" software, but one privacy and security expert said such programming would have to be incorporated into a browser for it...
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Power Hackers: The U.s. Smart Grid Is Shaping Up to Be Dangerously Insecure
Achieving greater efficiency and control of the electricity grid requires hooking almost every aspect of it up to the Internet, making it more vulnerable to cyber...
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