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Monday, November 8, 2010

Hurricane Forecasts Can Be Made Years in Advance

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The parade of storms that pummels the western fringe of the North Atlantic every year just got a bit more predictable. Scientists say they h...
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Friday, October 29, 2010

Why Your Electric Vehicle 'Fuel' Will Be Free

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How can EVs become more attractive to consumers price-wise? One of the ways can be from the realistic prospect of free 'fuel.' Imagi...
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Friday, October 22, 2010

Feds Plot ‘Near Human’ Robot Docs, Farmers, Troops

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Robots are already vacuuming our carpets, heading into combat and assisting docs on medical procedures. Get ready for a next generation of ...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

Computerized Grenade Launcher Heads to Afghanistan

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It looks like a piece of riot-control gear. It's got a computerized in-board targeting system. It can kill someone from 2,300 feet away,...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Comments on my blog

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You can now comment on my blog posts if you like. I didn't know until recently that Blogspot was changed so that blogs were set to a de...
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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Darpa's Self-Aiming "One Shot" Sniper Rifle Scheduled for Next Year

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A sniper crouches near an open window and zooms in on his target, who sits a half-mile away. He peers through a scope and holds his breath, ...
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Darpa Moves a Step Closer to Its Flying Humvee

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In the spring, the futurists at Darpa rethought troop transport. Instead of adding armor or changing the shape to deflect bomb blasts, the a...
Friday, September 10, 2010

Cyber Thieves Steal Nearly $1,000,000 from University of Virginia College

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Cyber crooks stole just shy of $1 million from a satellite campus of The University of Virginia last week, KrebsOnSecurity.com has learned....

Attackers Exploiting New Acrobat/Reader Flaw

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Adobe warned today that hackers appear to be exploiting a previously unknown security hole in its PDF Reader and Acrobat programs. In an adv...
Wednesday, September 8, 2010

DHS Cybersecurity Watchdogs Miss Hundreds of Vulnerabilities on Their Own Network

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The federal agency in charge of protecting other agencies from computer intruders was found riddled with hundreds of high-risk security hole...
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

New Audio Teen-Repellent

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Gallery Place business owners in the Chinatown area of Washington DC are using a new approach to chasing away loitering teenagers: zapping t...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Tiny Thorium Reactors Could Wean World Off Oil

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An abundant metal with vast energy potential could quickly wean the world off oil, if only Western political leaders would muster the will t...
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Monday, August 9, 2010

My New Home in Far North Dallas

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I have been on the waiting list for two terrific apartments for several months. It took so long for me to find an apartment because I'm...
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Spinal-Fluid Test Confirmed to Predict Alzheimer's

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The New York Times reports that researchers have found a spinal-fluid test can be 100 percent accurate in identifying patients with signific...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Download a Movie from iTunes in Less than 1 Second

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That's the promise of a research breakthrough from Intel that combines silicon chips and lasers to transmit data at 50 gigabits per seco...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Telemedicine Comes Into Its Own

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"Telemedicine — providing care using advanced communications technology may be coming into its own with a little help from Uncle Sam. T...
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Monday, July 12, 2010

NOAA interactive map tracks Gulf oil spill

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Geoplatform.gov/gulfresponse employs the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMAR) a web-based GIS platform developed by NOAA a...

Army’s Self-Driving Trucks Let Humans Watch for Bombs

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As insurgents in Afghanistan target the U.S. military's soft underbelly — its long logistics lines — trucking materiel through war zones...
Friday, July 9, 2010

Computer Mouse Turns Invisible

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In a magic trick that only geeks can pull off, researchers at MIT have found a method to let users click and scroll exactly the same way the...
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Sunday, June 13, 2010

3-D Printers Make Real Items From Design Downloads

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Home computer printers gave people the ability to produce bank statements, concert tickets, holiday cards and party invitations at the touch...
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