Hackers Are Using Find My iPhone to Hold iOS Devices for Ransom
By Adam Clark Estes A strange rash of virtual iPhone kidnappings in Australia recently spread to the United States, and boy, are they strange. Hackers […]
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New method discovered to protect against chemical weapons
By Staff Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered that some compounds called polyoxoniobates can degrade and decontaminate nerve agents such as the deadly sarin […]
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“Thermal Touch” can turn any surface into an augmented reality touchscreen
By Dario Borghino Augmented reality company Metaio is developing “Thermal Touch,” a technology that combines infrared and visible light cameras to detect the heat signature […]
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Social Media Based Crisis Training Event Brings SDSU Students, Scientists, Journalists and Community Together
This past weekend, San Diego State was host to unique crisis training event that brought together SDSU students, faculty, journalists, geologists and the San Diego […]
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High-tech spider for hazardous missions
By Editor Enviably agile and purposeful, the mobile robot makes its way through grounds rendered off-limits to humans as the result of a chemical accident. […]
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Electric multicopter flies manned for the first time
By Editor The e-volo electric multicopter has been taken on its first manned test flight by inventors Thomas Senkel, Stephan Wolf and Alexander Zosel in […]
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Analysis: CIA Open Source Center monitors Facebook, Twitter, blogs
By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS The Associated Press has been given unprecedented access to the United States Central Intelligence Agency’s Open Source Center, which is tasked with, […]
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Here’s Facebook’s Massive Arctic Server Farm
By Sam Biddle What do you get when you spend over $700 million on a new Swedish party house for your servers? This. 300,000 feet […]
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Lighting Sheets Made of Tiny LEDs
By Kevin Bullis A company called Nth Degree Technologies hopes to replace light bulbs with what look like glowing sheets of paper (as shown in […]
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What Is Google Ripples?
By Mario Aguilar Google released a bunch of new Google+ features yesterday, including “What’s Hot” and Instagram-ish photo filters—those weren’t big surprises. But Google Ripples? […]
