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Medical Nanobots Coming to Your Bloodstream

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Billions of robots built from DNA can live inside a syringe, and can be injected into the body, where they carry out search and destroy missions as they interact with the body and with each other. They locate tumors, release medications at the right place and in the right dosage, link up with each other

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Google Reveals a Little About NSA Data Transfer

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Google Opens Up Some More: The ‘Secret’ Computer System It Uses To Give Info To NSA Is Secure FTP

from the oh-no,-the-terrorists-will-know-that-now! dept Google is continuing to open up about the supposed “secret” program by which it hands data over to the NSA that has been subject to so much attention over the last

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China Produces World’s Fastest Supercomputer

The Tianhe-2 supercomputer from China is slated to become the fastest in the world.

China appears to have once again taken the lead from the United States in the burgeoning supercomputing wars, developing a supercomputer that is twice as fast as anything America has to offer.

The Tianhe-2 supercomputer from China is slated to become the fastest in the world.

The new Tianhe-2 supercomputer, nicknamed the Milkyway-2, was

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Researchers Unveil Thought Controlled Helicopter

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Prof Bin He, who is behind new research, explained how it worked

Researchers have harnessed the power of thought to guide a remote-control helicopter through an obstacle course.

The demonstration joins a growing number of attempts to translate the electrical patterns of thoughts into motions in the virtual and real world.

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Google Glass: The Military Version

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Google Glass might be new on the scene, but wearable displays aren’t unseen technology. Head-mounted displays have been projecting information into fighter pilot’s eyeballs for years now, and we recently had the chance to get up close and personal with the latest and greatest systems out there.

The first thing we got to stick

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On the Spot GMO and Toxicity Tester Being Developed

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Consumers Will Soon Have Devices In Their Hands To Detect GMO and Toxic Foods

In the not too distant future, consumers will be able to run on-the-spot tests for environmental toxins, GMOs, pesticides, food safety and more with their smartphones and other hand-held devices. Every human being on every developed nation on Earth, whether living

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NASA and Google Team up on Quantum Computing

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NASA’s Ames Research Laboratory, in collaboration with Google and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), has announced plans to host a 512-quantum-bit (qubit), quantum computer at its new Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab.

The computer system selected for the facility is D-Wave Systems’ D-Wave Two. Quantum computing combines the principles of

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TrackingPoint: The Rifle That Decides When to Shoot

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A new rifle goes on sale on Wednesday, and it’s not like any other. It uses lasers and computers to make shooters very accurate.

A startup gun company in Texas developed the rifle, which is so effective that some in the shooting community say it should not be sold to the public.

It’s called the

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Yi Long: Chinese Stealth Drone Preps for Testing

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The Chinese military is making preparations for the inaugural flight test of its newly designed unmanned combat vehicle, bringing the Asian powerhouse into the stealth technology race, Chinese media report.

The “Yi Long” drone by China Aviation Industry Corporation (AVIC) (AFP Photo)

 

China’s first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), known as the Lijian (‘sharp

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100,000 Liberator Guns Downloaded So Far

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Downloads for 3D-printed Liberator gun reach 100,000, Groups looking to tighten US gun laws have expressed concern

 

The blueprint used to produce a 3D-printed plastic gun has been downloaded about 100,000 times since going online earlier this week, according to Forbes.

 

Defense Distributed told the news site

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First 3D Printed Gun Fired in Austin Tx. (Video)

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The world’s first gun made with 3D printer technology has been successfully fired in the US.

The controversial group which created the firearm, Defense Distributed, plans to make the blueprints available online.

The group has spent a year trying to create the firearm, which was successfully tested on Saturday at a firing range south

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New Breathalyzer Detects Drugs

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Your breath says a lot about you. Recent research has found that the chemicals present in each person’s breath can provide a unique “breathprint” that differs from person to person, while other scientists have worked on breathalyzer-like tests that can indicate the presence of a bacterial infection inside someone’s body.

 

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Don’t fear the robot-apocalypse, yet

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Ah, pity the robots, lonely even when not alone. Largely blind and deaf, they toil away in social isolation. From the frenetic factory line to the bustling warehouse floor, they solder and weld, assemble, pack and palletize, with nary a bleepity-bloop of gossip or grievance passing between them.

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Robots aspire to greater

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FAA: No, You Cant Hijack a Plane With Smartphone

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Aviation officials have taken a skeptical view of claims that it’s possible to hijack a commercial aircraft using a smartphone, with both the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Aviation Safety Administration (EASA) issuing statements to the effect that it simply couldn’t happen.

On Wednesday, Spanish security researcher Hugo Teso gave a

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Social Media Linked to Lower Academic Performance

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The widespread use of media among college students — from texting to chatting on cell phones to posting status updates on Facebook — may be taking an academic toll, say researchers with The Miriam Hospital’s Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine.

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According to a new study, freshmen women spend nearly half

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Will Monsanto Use Robot Bees to Pollinate Crops

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Maybe. Russ McSpadden writes at Earth First! Newswire:

Pollinators participate in the sexual-reproduction of plants. When you eat an almond, beet, watermelon or sip on coffee, you’re partaking of an ancient relationship between pollinators and flowers. But since the 1990s, worldwide bee health has been in decline and most evidence points to toxic

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FDR Fusion Drive Could Cut Mars Travel to 30 Days

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NASA, and plenty of private individuals, want to put mankind on Mars. Now a team at the University of Washington being funded by the space agency is about to start building a fusion engine that could get humans there in just 30 days and make other forms of space travel obsolete.

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Humanoid Robot Testing by Boston Dynamics

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Defense contractor Boston Dynamics has new video of its Terminator-like “PETMAN” robot standing, walking, posing and… wearing a chemical protection suit, for some reason.

The project is funded in part by the Defense Department’s Chemical and Biological Defense program, CNet reported Monday.

For the test seen embedded below, Boston Dynamics says that PETMAN was outfitted

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NASA Scientist Says Warp Drive is “Doable”

“Perhaps a Star Trek experience within our lifetime is not such a remote possibility.” These are the words of Dr. Harold “Sonny” White, the Advanced Propulsion Theme Lead for the NASA Engineering Directorate. Dr. White and his colleagues don’t just believe a real life warp drive is theoretically possible; they’ve already started the work

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Will Zuckerberg Steal Your Soul?

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Mark Zuckerberg’s master plan: Transforming your smartphone into his mobile advertising billboard

The home screen of your smartphone, Mark Zuckerberg told the world on Thursday, is the “soul of your phone.” Zuckerberg then proceeded to demo “Home,” Facebook’s bold new plan to take over the prime real estate of all Android mobile devices,

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