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Platoon-Level 'Cloud' Lets Soldiers Swap Data, Increases 'Network Lethality'
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Planned Portuguese Eco-City Is Controlled By A Central Computer Brain
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Google's Chromebook Specs Revealed: Up to $499 for a Cloud-Based Laptop
Chromebooks Google Among the many announcements at Google's I/O developer conference were the final specs for the Chromebook, a new bare-bones notebook based on the Chrome OS platform. Your data is...
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PlayStation Network Hackers Used Amazon's Cloud Services To Launch Their...
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The Largest Telescope Ever Built Will Rely On Citizens to Analyze Its Reams...
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Steamy Cloud Servers Installed In Homes and Businesses Could Be Used As Furnaces
Data Center Microsoft Research scientists have proposed capturing waste heat from file servers and using it to heat buildings. The Planet via Flickr Finding a physical space to store our voluminous...
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Cloud-Based Quantum Computing Will Allow Secure Calculation on Encrypted Bits
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Holey Optochip! The One-Trillion-Bits-Per-Second Chip is Here
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Taiwanese Students Use Personal Seismic Sensors to Monitor Earthquakes
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Do You "Possess" What You View Online?
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Can't Define "The Cloud"? Who Cares?
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New Worldwide Network Lets Robots Ask Each Other Questions When They Get...
Making the Sausage Rosie the robot waits for the sausages to be cooked before taking them out of the water and serving them. TUM Robbie the robot is intimidated by breakfast. What the heck is a...
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How Software Will Make Computer Shopping Obsolete
Computer Shopping Paul Lachine Every new computer comes with one guarantee: There will be a faster, shinier, newer model in short order—and you will fawn over it. It's hard not to. Processors double...
View ArticleThe Largest Telescope Ever Built Will Rely On Citizens to Analyze Its Reams...
Australia wants to host the world’s biggest and most sensitive radio telescope, and as part of its bid to land the $2.1 billion Square Kilometer Array (SKA) the joint…
View ArticleSteamy Cloud Servers Installed In Homes and Businesses Could Be Used As Furnaces
Finding a physical space to store our voluminous cloud-based data is a problem, sure, but keeping the servers cooled down is another, much bigger problem--and an…
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I should perhaps begin by saying that I am as big a fan of the Net and the Web and the whole expanding “information universe” as anyone you are likely to meet. I find myself…
View ArticleCloud-Based Quantum Computing Will Allow Secure Calculation on Encrypted Bits
When quantum computers eventually reach larger scales, they'll probably remain pretty precious resources, locked away in research institutions just like our classical supercomputers. So anyone who...
View ArticleHoley Optochip! The One-Trillion-Bits-Per-Second Chip is Here
The high data loads of the future--and even the present--require that optical communications platforms continue to get faster, leaner, and cheaper. At the Optical Fiber…
View ArticleTaiwanese Students Use Personal Seismic Sensors to Monitor Earthquakes
Until buildings can be cloaked from earthquakes or built to levitate above them, seismic sensors will help warn people of impending temblors — but seismologists always need…
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