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Inventions Ease the Plight of Trapped Miners
From copper-fibersocks to fiber-optic cable, innovation and improvisation make time more bearable for 33 Chilean.
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What tilities Have Learned From Smart-Meter Tests...
Utilities have learned a lot about how smart meters can compel consumers to save electricity. Unfortunately, too often they aren't putting the knowledge to good...
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Tech Spending Bounces Back as Profits Rise
Business spending on technology goods and services is returning as the economy mends, pumping new life into suppliers such as Cisco Systems Inc., though it has...
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Insurgents Hack .s. Drones
Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they...
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Squeezing Web Sites Onto Cellphones
When a group of engineers at National Instruments Corp. modified a 1988 Oldsmobile so it could be controlled by an iPhone, the company was quick to share the project...
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In Search For Intelligence, a Silicon Brain Twitches
Blue Brain is a supercomputer-powered software model designed to closely simulate the activity of a rat's neocortical column (NCC) in the hope of gaining insights...
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