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Nasa Fashions Mountain Climbing Robot
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has unveiled Axel, a prototype rover that is capable of traversing extremely rough terrain, including...
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Hospitals With Better It Have Fewer Deaths, Study Shows
Patients have better outcomes in hospitals that make greater use of technology, concludes a collaborative study involving multiple universities and healthcare systems...
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Fingerprints and Faces Can Be Faked, But Not Brain Patterns
The European Union-funded HUMABIO project is combining new types of biometric recognition systems with the latest sensor technologies to develop better security...
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Wi-Fi Networks Offer Rich Environment For Spread of Worms
Malicious software code could infect an entire city in a period of several weeks by traveling over Wi-Fi networks that overlap each other, concludes a study by...
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Google and Amazon to Put More Books on Cellphones
Google has made 1.5 million books accessible on mobile devices such as the iPhone and the T-Mobile G1. The titles are the public domain books Google previously...
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Ibm's Power Play: New Supercomputer Called Fastest Ever
IBM has won a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to build what it says will be the world's fastest computer...
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Google Earth Dives Deep, Filling in Its Maps' Watery Gaps
When Google Earth first launched, the two-thirds of the planet that is covered by water was simply left blue. "We had this arbitrary distinction that if it was...
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Surprise! Tech Is a Safe Career Choice Today
The technology profession is proving to be one of the safest careers available during the current economic crisis, providing good pay and solid job security. "The...
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Leading Futurists, Thinkers to Launch Silicon Valley niversity
Leading thinkers and futurists will launch Singularity University, an institution based in Silicon Valley that will offer a wide range of programs focusing on multiple...
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Certain It Skills in Demand Despite Economy
According to a recent study by IT staffing company Veritude, the overall weakness in the U.S. economy is forcing employers to become more tactical in their hiring...
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Data Mining Promises to Dig p New Drugs
European researchers have developed a robot called Eve that uses artificial intelligence, data mining, and knowledge discovery technology to analyze the results...
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Is Technology Producing a Decline in Critical Thinking and Analysis?
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) professor Patricia Greenfield says that critical thinking and analysis skills decline the more people use technology...
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Microsoft Searches For Group Advantage
Microsoft researchers are investigating if using data from several members of a social group, a technique Microsoft calls "groupization," can lead to better search...
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Web 3.0 Emerging
Web 3.0 is generally defined as Semantic Web technologies that run or are embedded within large-scale Web applications, writes Jim Hendler, assistant dean for information...
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Closing the Gap Between High-Speed Data Transmission and Processing
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) engineers have set world-record speeds for real-time signal processing while working to develop the first terabit-scale...
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Obama Unveils Cybersecurity Agenda
U.S. President Barack Obama has laid out a number of goals for improving the security of the nation's information networks. For instance, he has promised to declare...
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Researchers Cool Cpus With Nano-Size Fridges
As chips become increasingly dense, the extreme heat they generate has pushed researchers to search for ways to mitigate it. Intel, RTI International, and Arizona...
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Predicting Breakdowns
Researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and Lockheed Martin are working on a sensor-based monitoring system that assesses the health of a vehicle...
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Fight Brews Over How to Build a Better Internet
The U.S. Internet infrastructure is slower and more expensive than many other developed nations, and reaches fewer of its citizens. About 10 percent of U.S. households...
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