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    University of Illinois Scientists' Answer To Big Data Is Virtual Reality

    Scientists across various fields today face the challenge of processing large amounts of data, wherein traditional applications fail to deliver. Researchers at....

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    FDA Approves Second Sight's Argus II Artificial Retina For Use

    Second Sight, a company which markets implantable visual prosthetics, has struck major success by winning approval from Federal Drug Administration (FDA) for....

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    German Student Builds Electromagnetic Harvester That Charges Battery

    Electromagnetism is virtually a trait of every gadget, an omnipresent feature in the electronic age. German student, Dennis Seigel notes that, and...

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    Lockheed Martin Completes Assembly Ahead Of NASA MAVEN's November Flight

    With Curiosity skimming the surface of Mars, NASA gears up its next expedition, MAVEN, for the Martian skies. NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and...

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    Researchers Emulate Peacock's Tail For Advanced Color Display

    Researchers at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor have drawn inspiration from nature to envision advanced displays and color development for e-readers....

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    The Latest Addition To The Prime Number Family Is 17-Million Digits Strong

    Okay, folks! We have a new 'largest known prime number' and it is 17-million digits long. For your curiosity, the number is ...

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    MIT Researchers Propose Practical Compressed Sensing

    Compressed Sensing has seen continuous research for the past 10 years, including the famous demonstration at Rice University in 2006 when researchers...

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    Google Glass Explorer Edition Hints At Bone-Conduction Audio

    Google Glass Explorer Edition is soon set to release to the chosen few developers who were lucky enough to attend the Google...

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    Solid-State Storage Super-Sizes to 2TB

    Solid state drives have proven to be better than hard disk drives in both their speed and efficiency. Flash storage vendor STEC...

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    Google Password Sync For Android; Coming Soon

    Google's Password Sync has been available as a feature on rival platform iOS since long but Android, while enjoying bookmarks and other...

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    A New Class Of Nanowires Bolster Solar Cell Performance

    Solar cells' unique selling points are all but efficiency. Naturally, scientists have been incessantly working towards generating more power out of the...

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    Curiosity Finds Drilling Spot Heaven For Water On Mars

    Five months ago, NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars with a mission to search for microbial life on the Red Planet and...

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    US Homeland Security Advises Against Java

    Apparently, Java has become a rather serious threat with US Homeland Security warning computer users against the potential vulnerabilities in Oracle Java...

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    MIT Graduate Invents Algorithm For More Competent Ad-Hoc Networks

    MIT graduate student Bernhard Haeupler has ensured with his new algorithm that ad-hoc networks could guarantee the transfer of information across all...

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    Keep Calm And Carry On, So Says The Smartphone

    Stress is not unknown to us but it gets the better of us on our bad days. Researchers are developing a smartphone...

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    Dyson Robot Vacuum Under Making; Ten Years Too Late?

    Dyson has finally made it to the age of robots, only that's so 2002! It's almost a decade since Dyson first entertained...

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    MIT and UC Berkeley Devise Smarter Ways To Beat Traffic Woes

    Cities are cursed with traffic agonies at rush hour. The obvious solution is to avoid hitting the road in that period but...

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    DARPA Mule Learns The Tricks Of The Trade

    #-Link-Snipped-# quadruped robot, has been training since its September public appearance. While more popular by the name of 'AlphaDog', the LS3's primary...

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    University Of Michigan To Test WiFi Connected Cars Technology

    While WiFi enabled cars are not a new concept in entirety, University Of Michigan is putting a share of them to test....

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    NASA Takes Curiosity Out For Its First Spin On Mars

    Mars rover Curiosity took its first test drive on the soil of Mars on Wednesday, reportedly as a prior exercise to the...

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    Harvard Scientists Squeeze 700 TB Of Data In A Single Gram Of DNA

    The world record for DNA data density has just been smashed by scientists from the Harvard’s Wyss Institute. Professor of Genetics at ...

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    Color-Changing, Malleable DARPA Robot For $100

    DARPA is currently developing a singular chameleon robot, which can alter its shape to fit in constrained spaces and light up in...

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    RNA Treatment Delivered Directly To Brain Can Help Treat Huntington's

    Alnylam, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company, has announced a clinical trial for genetic therapy based on RNA interference, or RNAi whose single dose...

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    Researchers Study Click-Spam, Devise A Way To Fight It

    Click-spam has recently evolved to become a tangible problem in the digital world. Commonly dismissed as Internet mischief, Click-spam is actually a...

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    Printer Reaches Maximum Resolution, Fits Images In Minimum Width

    World's highest resolution printer can now print images on minuscule objects, and by minuscule, they mean the thinnest overlooked strand of hair....

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    Biometric Bracelet Measures Unique Electric Impedance To Recognize Wearer

    Computer scientist Cory Cornelius at Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire, has developed a device that uses the unique response to a weak...

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    University Of Illinois Research Says DNA Can Shape Gold Nanoparticles

    Researchers at the University Of Illinois have found that DNA code, which holds the genetic code for nearly every biological molecule, can...

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    Facebook Opens To Real-Money Gambling In Britain

    Internet has taken over a lot of things, but here's an amusing way of losing your money, Gamble on Facebook! Facebook has...

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    Researchers Develop Machine Learning System That Identifies Cities By Architecture

    The test of Artificial Intelligence lies in emulating the human brain perfectly, but doing a better job at it. Researchers at Carnegie...

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    Spotify Finally Launches On Kindle Fire, Updates iOS App

    A busy day at the Spotify office, it seems, with the music streaming service finally landing on the coveted Kindle Fire while ...

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    Spice Up Your Resume With Seelio, Get Your Dream Job

    Moses Lee, a serial entrepreneur at the University of Michigan’s Engineering’s Center for Entrepreneurship has developed a social netwo...

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    Disney Researchers Unveil REVEL, Wearable Technology That Enhances Sense Of Touch

    Researchers at Disney Research, Pittsburgh have formulated a new wearable tactile technology which modifies the user's tactile perception of physical world by.....

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    Tokelau Drops Diesel To Become The First Solar-Powered Place On Earth

    Home to 1,400 people over an area of 10km<sup>2</sup>, Tokelau is soon going to be the first place on Earth which entirely...

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    Researchers Develop Cell Spray That Could Mend Hearts

    Researchers at the British Heart Foundation have developed a technique that could replace the scarred tissues in heart with working heart cells....

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    Twitter Launches "CashTags", Clickable Stock Symbols To Track Your Investment

    Twitter is arguably the best source for real-time data, and since its establishment has played a radical role as a social media...

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    Microsoft Awards $200,000 To Researcher For His Work On Exploit Mitigation Technology

    Vasilis Pappas, a Columbia University PhD student, was titled the winner of  the Microsoft BlueHat Prize contest for an exploit mitigation...

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    Google Science Fair: 17-Year-Old Builds Neural Network To Detect Breast Cancer

    Google Science Fair has served as an excellent platform for young minds to showcase their talent through visionary ideas aimed at making...

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    Glasgow Researchers Developing "Chemputer" That Could 3D Print Drugs

    Two years ago, when Professor Lee Cronin was invited to an architectural seminar to present his work on inorganic structures, he first...

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    UCLA Researchers Develop Transparent Solar Panels For Windows

    UCLA researchers have developed a new kind of solar panel which allows sunlight to pass through it paving the way for advanced...

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    Physicists Probe Into The Predictive Power Of Quantum Theory

    A team of physicists led by Terence E. Stuart, from the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada; ETH Zurich in Switzerland; and...

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    Google Acquires Popular iOS And OSX E-Mail Client, Sparrow

    Earlier this morning, in an official post on #-Link-Snipped-#, Google has announced the attainment of the famous OSX and iOS E-mail client...

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    Google+ Spreads Out, Opens API To More Businesses Including Flipboard

    On Wednesday, Google+ Product Manager#-Link-Snipped-# announced a new set of Google+ management APIs through a Google+ post. The beta version of the...

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    symCAT App Is Your Doctor On Call

    Most of us have a custom of "googling" our symptoms when we are feeling sick, and more often that not the result...

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    NASA Puts Robonaut 2 Simulator Up For Download

    Robonaut 2, which was launched up to the International Space Station back in February this year may be forever out of reach...

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    Symantec Security Update Causes Major Windows XP Failure

    Reuters has reported a bug in Symantec's latest software which has led some Windows PCs to fail in their operation. The update...

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    Imperial College Researchers Develop $60 Hands-Free Device; Write Emails With Eyes

    There are millions of people around the world, who due to disability of one kind or other are incapable of operating the...

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    MIT Brings Glasses-Free 3D TV A Step Closer To Reality

    Holograms, which are considered the future of television, are still out of reach when looking at the immediate future. But a new...

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    Ouya Garners Huge Support On Kickstarter, Races Past $2 Million Mark

    Ouya, the Android based gaming console startup which was launched yesterday on Kickstarter to gather funds, has already achieved its target of...

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    Mirror.ly Makes Changing Rooms Virtual For Online Retailers, Shoppers

    Online retail industry is a prospering and proliferating business but when it comes to apparels, users are often dubious about the cogency...

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    MIT's New Chip Harvests Energy From Multiple Sources - Heat, Light Or Vibrations

    PhD student Saurav Bandyopadhyay and MIT professor Anantha Chandrakasan have developed a new chip which could harness power from natural light, heat...

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    World's Fastest Camera Can Detect Rare Cancer Cells

    Researchers at UCLA have developed an optical microscope camera using advanced microfluidics technology and real-time processing to analyze blood samples. The...

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    PowerCloth 1G By Exotic Solar LLC Turns Your Cloth Into Charging Port

    Researchers from Exotic Solar LLC, a renewable energy startup company based in Salt Lake City, have developed a method to manufacture cheap...

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    RapidShare Introduces RapidDrive, Will Rival Dropbox

    RapidShare has announced a new file management tool with cloud sync called RapidDrive. RapidDrive molds into local storage by integrating with the...

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    Mathematicians Use Network Theory To Decipher Spain's Champion Style

    Maths and Sports have had an elusive relation for long, but sports like football have known to defy statistics with fewer attributes...

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    Amazon Smartphone Release On The Cards, Reports Bloomberg

    If sources at Bloomberg are to be believed, Amazon has a smartphone release under wing, and is currently working on the development...

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    Cotton T-shirts May One Day Double As Cellphone Chargers - USC Engineers

    Cotton has more to its fabric than meets the eye. Two engineers at the University of South Carolina have proved through their...

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    Desktop Gadgets Support Likely To Be Scratched Off Windows 8

    Those cute little handy desktop gadgets might not make it to Windows 8, sources from <em>Win8china say</em>. Surprisingly though, the Desktop Gadgets...

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    Stranger Visions: Reconstruction Through Genetic Surveillance

    With each living breath, and the places we go, we are unnoticeably leaving behind evidences of our existence that could trace back...

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    Smart Grid Billing Startup Helps Save Energy By Time-Shifting Use

    When supply does not meet demand, a "scarcity" is produced, a known threat to exhaustible sources like electricity. Founded in 2009, Startup...

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    Samsung Galaxy Chat With ICS And Full QWERTY Keyboard Launched

    The Galaxy series remains true to its title with the endless entries to the line, the latest of them all being the...

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    Researchers Create Clickjack Rootkit, Stay Ahead Of Hackers

    A Research Team led by Xuxian Jiang at North Carolina University is working on discovering smartphone flaws that are inherent to the...

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    Nokia N9 Firmware 1.3 Released, Fixes Almost 1,000 Bugs

    Symbian might be dead and while Lumia serves to be Nokia's savior for the immediate future, Nokia has taken the effort to...

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    Document Management Startup Doo.Net Stays Ahead With Windows 8 App

    Staying ahead of time, Document Management Start-Up Doo.net has launched a Metro-Style app for upcoming Windows 8 OS. Strangely though, the startup...

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    NASA Orion Capsule Unveiled At Kennedy Space Center; To The Mars By 2030?

    NASA offered a glimpse of its bright future with the unveiling of Orion capsule at the Kennedy Space Center on Monday, a...

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    Google Ears Ports From Jelly Bean To ICS

    Soundhound and Shazam now face direct competition from Google's new feature for Sound Search titled "Google Ears." Originally a function of Jelly...

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    VLC 2.0.2 Update For Windows And OSX Supports Retina Display

    VLC has updated its software to 2.0.2 for Windows and OSX, but the real breaking news here is the addition of support...

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    Windows 8 Might See A 'Curved' On-Screen Keyboard, Reports Say

    If sources are to be believed, Researchers at Microsoft are working on the concept of a curved on-screen thumb keyboard for Windows...

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    VLC Beta For Android Arrives On Google Play

    The Beta version of popular media player, VLC, has finally arrived for the Android platform. The VideoLAN team has underlined the fact...

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    Social Platform #Waywire - Being The Change You Want To See In The World

    The video opens with John. F. Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural speech, cut to present day world, with the youth expressing their views on...

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    Robotic Minion Starter Kit Just Needs Your Code!

    Interested in Robotics but undecided on where to start? Dustin and David Andrews on #-Link-Snipped-# have launched, what is called, a Robotic...

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    No Jelly Bean For Flash, HTML5 The Merciless

    The latest version of Android, titled Jelly Bean, is officially destitute of Flash Player support from Adobe. Starting August 15, Adobe will...

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    Lawyerbot Will Do The Donkey Work, Facilitates Database Search

    A recent judicial ruling in US has cleared the roads for "predictive coding", a technique implemented in order to sieve through a...