New App Guides Commandos Parachuting Into Danger
By Spencer Ackerman Jumping out of an airplane wasn’t exactly a precision mission. Until now. Sure, executing a jump takes precision: troops need to descend […]
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Future computers that modify themselves
By Megan Fellman Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a new nanomaterial that can “steer” electrical currents. The development could lead to a computer that […]
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Those Scan Results Are Just an App Away
By Anne Eisenberg Dr. Gagnon, a radiation oncologist, uses the app when he sees patients in his Fairhaven, Mass., office. He pulls his iPhone out […]
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Psychopathic killers: Computerized text analysis uncovers the word patterns of a predator
By Jeffrey T. Hancock, Michael T. Woodworth, Stephen Porter The words of psychopathic murderers match their personalities, which reflect selfishness, detachment from their crimes and […]
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Now You See ‘Em, Now You Don’t: Stealth Weapons From Around the World
By Adam Rawnsley Not long ago, the U.S. was the only country in the world with aircraft that could stroll the skies without fear of […]
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The Social-Network Chip
By Kate Greene Looking at friends’ pictures on Facebook or searching résumés on LinkedIn are relatively simple computing tasks in which information is called up, […]
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Cyber threats 2012: search poisoning, mobile Web attacks, selling social-media data
By Jason Maderer The year ahead will feature new and increasingly sophisticated means to capture and exploit user data, as well as escalating battles over […]
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Crowdsourcing Democracy Through Social Media
By Michael Terrazas ATLANTA – Oct. 11, 2011 – Today the citizens of Liberia will participate in just their second presidential election since the country […]
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Why Simple File Sharing Is Serious Business
By Tom Simonite It could be among most obvious business plans ever: offer to store people’s files online so they can access them anywhere. The […]
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Startup Lets You Save and Share Parts of Web Pages
By Erica Naone The Web may make it easy to communicate with people thousands of miles away and put libraries full of knowledge at our […]
