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Test Flight in Peru Enhances Archaeological Mapping Efforts

The Aurora Flight Sciences unmanned aerial vehicle will be integrated into a larger system that combines the flying device that can fit into a backpack with a…

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New Mars Rover: Digital Design and Testing Breakthroughs

It will reach the red planet on August 6, 2012, and begin to conduct various experiments to obtain new information, which it will transmit back to earth….

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High-Performance Fault-Tolerant Network for Modular Data Centers

Huang Feng, Li Dongsheng, and their group from the National Key Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Processing, School of Computers, National University of…

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Data Visualization Tool Finds "Unknown Unknowns"

The new data analysis and visualization tool offers improved ease of use compared to similar tools, the researchers say, and could be readily adapted for use…

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'Control-Alt-Hack' game lets players try their hand at computer security

Now you can at least try, no matter what your background, with a new card game developed by University of Washington computer scientists.”Control-Alt-Hack”…

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NIST Enhances Mobile Device Security Guidelines for Workers

Mobile devices allow workers, including government employees, to work in multiple locations and to improve their efficiency. But the same features that make…

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Home Technology runs your home smartly and remotely via web/mobile

The Home Technology system, which has been developed by the French-based company of the same name, acts as home-care support by monitoring and analysing the…

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European Science Champions Score an Early Goal for Cloud Computing

A collaboration between big science and big business, Helix Nebula joins the forces of leading IT providers and three of Europe’s leading research centres…

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FIFA Approves GoalRef: Smart Goal Technology for Football

In its meeting of Thursday 5th July 2012 the International Football Association Board (IFAB), the body which determines the laws of the game, approved both…

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New Method Prevents Mobile Data Abuse by Apps

In secrecy, the “apps” forward private data to a third party. Computer scientists from Saarbrücken have developed a new approach to prevent this data abuse….

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Catalysis: Blueprint for a break-up

Hydrogen gas (H2) is an ideal energy carrier for fuel cells, but finding sustainable ways to produce large quantities of hydrogen continues to be a…

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Robot Vision: New Actuator Mimics Human Eye Movement

Key to the new control system is a piezoelectric cellular actuator that uses a novel biologically inspired technology that will allow a robot eye to move more…

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See, feel, hear and control your environment, virtually

It’s not about how much information you have but what you can do with it that matters. This is the case for the deluge of data and information that abounds in…

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NASA's TRMM Satellite measures Debby's drenching Florida rains

Even though it never became more than a tropical storm, the residents of northern and central Florida will remember Debby. Debby, which formed as a tropical…

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Smartphones Boost Social Media and Gaming Use in Sweden

Each year, Nordicom at Gothenburg University carries out a nationally representative survey of media use among the Swedish people. Media Barometer 2011…

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Landsat sets the standard for maps of world's forests

Countries like Brazil are using data from NASA satellites to track and measure their forests in advance of a United Nations effort to reduce climate change by…

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