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The Brave New World of Tomorrow's Tablets
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The Brave New World of Tomorrow's Tablets

Tablets with paper-thin screens that can be folded and tucked into your back pocket, artificial intelligence and augmented reality—the stuff of science fiction...

Apple Granted 'the Mother of All Smartphone Software Patents'
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Apple Granted 'the Mother of All Smartphone Software Patents'

Both sides of the smartphone wars agree that the 25 patents granted Apple on Tuesday contain some powerful legal weapons.

Mahdi, the Messiah, Found Infecting Systems in Iran, Israel
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Mahdi, the Messiah, Found Infecting Systems in Iran, Israel

Who knew that when the Messiah arrived to herald the Day of Judgment he'd first root through computers to steal documents and record conversations?

The Moore's Law Moon Shot
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The Moore's Law Moon Shot

It is seemingly a fact of life that every new generation of computing gadget will be significantly more powerful than the one before, but a looming technical roadblock...

Nasa's Car-Size Rover Nears Daring Landing on Mars
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Nasa's Car-Size Rover Nears Daring Landing on Mars

NASA's most advanced planetary rover is on a precise course for an early August landing beside a Martian mountain to begin two years of unprecedented scientific...

Hacker Opens High Security Handcuffs with 3D-Printed and Laser-Cut Keys
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Hacker Opens High Security Handcuffs with 3D-Printed and Laser-Cut Keys

The security of high-end handcuffs depends on a detainee not having access to certain small, precisely-shaped objects. In the age of easy 3D printing and other...

The Death of Cash
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The Death of Cash

Café Grumpy is the kind of hipster hangout that wouldn't deign to trumpet itself.

Toward Achieving 1 Million Times Increase in Computing Efficiency
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Toward Achieving 1 Million Times Increase in Computing Efficiency

Northwestern University researchers say they have developed a new logic circuit family based on magnetic semiconductor devices that could result in logic circuits...

Exascale Computing By Decade's End
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Exascale Computing By Decade's End

Parallelism and technology scaling will make exascale computing possible by the end of the decade, says Intel Fellow Shekhar Borkar. By about 2018, engineers are...

Step Inside the Large Hadron Collider
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Step Inside the Large Hadron Collider

The Compact Muon Solenoid is one of two main detectors at the LHC. It weighs 12,500 tons, measures 69 ft. (21 m) in length, and is a key research tool for 2,000...

The Eyes Have It: Marketers Now Track Shoppers' Retinas
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The Eyes Have It: Marketers Now Track Shoppers' Retinas

Consumer-products companies are turning to new technology to overcome the biggest obstacle to learning what shoppers really think: what the shoppers say.

Tridium's Niagara Framework: Marvel of Connectivity Illustrates New Cyber Risks
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Tridium's Niagara Framework: Marvel of Connectivity Illustrates New Cyber Risks

John Sublett and his colleagues had an audacious, digital-age plan. They wanted to use the Internet to enable businesses to manage any kind of electronic device...

Laser Beam Keeps Robo-Plane Buzzing For Two Days Straight
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Laser Beam Keeps Robo-Plane Buzzing For Two Days Straight

LaserMotive has demonstrated a power system that can keep Lockheed Martin's Stalker unmanned aerial vehicle going for more than 48 hours with laser light—but that's...

Intel Fights to Keep Hp, Dell, and Other Customers from Defecting
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Intel Fights to Keep Hp, Dell, and Other Customers from Defecting

Some of chip colossus Intel's biggest customers and partners are exploring a competing microprocessor design, signaling the start of a much-anticipated tech donnybrook...

Wimpy Cores Are Coming to Facebook. But Which Cores?
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Wimpy Cores Are Coming to Facebook. But Which Cores?

Facebook has made waves by detailing its plans to use what an executive calls "cell-phone chips"—or "wimpy cores"—in its future data centers.

Green500 Turns Blue
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Green500 Turns Blue

The 20 most energy efficient supercomputers the most recent Green500 rankings are all IBM Blue Gene/Q systems. Each of the top 20 systems delivered more than 2...

Graphene Transistor Method Could Enable Fast Devices
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Graphene Transistor Method Could Enable Fast Devices

University of California, Los Angeles researchers have developed a scalable method for fabricating self-aligned graphene transistors that could lead to high-speed...

Solid-State Terahertz Devices Could Scan for Cancer
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Solid-State Terahertz Devices Could Scan for Cancer

Cornell University researchers have developed a method of generating terahertz signals on an inexpensive silicon chip. The method uses mainstream CMOS technology...

Future Planetary Rovers May Make Their Own Decisions
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Future Planetary Rovers May Make Their Own Decisions

It's a hot summer day, and your eyes spot an ice cream cart up ahead. Without even really thinking, you start walking that direction. Planetary scientists would...

The Drone Zone
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The Drone Zone

Holloman Air Force Base, at the eastern edge of New Mexico's White Sands Missile Range, 200 miles south of Albuquerque, was once famous for the daredevil maneuvers...
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