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Rice University grad student Ryan Guerra is on a mission to extend the range of WiFi signals from a few hundred feet to a mile thanks to some nifty engineering and a few empty TV channels.
Personal computers that are optimized to interact with the cloud and give end users the best possible experience when accessing applications and services are being developed and marketed.
Artificial brains have long been a central theme in science fiction but they inched one step closer to reality at the University of Southern California where researches have created synthetic synapses.
Just as engineering innovations have a 30-year shelf life, institutional safeguards, whether financial or nuclear power regulation, need to evolve and change hands every two or three decades.
With huge budgets and entire departments dedicated to social media, big business has conceived of some very innovative ways to use social media that small business can take advantage of.
For years, architects and urban planners have occupied themselves with dreaming up clever new ways to revitalize America's deteriorating urban centers - transforming warehouses into upscale lofts, finding creative new […]
In 10 years we'll have three dimensional virtual realities that will seem just like real reality, beamed straight from eyeglasses into our retinas.
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Virtualization is the hottest new technotrend, with everything from commerce and supply chain management to storage and processing power migrating into the cloud and into virtual realities.
Every Wednesday, Michio Kaku will be answering reader questions about physics and futuristic science. If you have a question for Dr. Kaku, just post it in the comments section below […]
Donald Trump has been running around the countryside, playing the CEO of Village Idiot, Inc. to the hilt these last few weeks, and our lazy, unprincipled national media corps has […]
In the midst of another April’s Poetry Month, it’s worth considering how closely the sister arts of verbal poetry and visual poetry can be. The almost symbiotic relationship of British […]
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In the 1999 film "The Matrix," characters could simply learn a new set of skills by uploading a program into their brains. When (if ever) will we be able to […]
The seemingly constantly restless Tungurahua had a significant explosive eruption, prompting evacuations of schools and villages near the volcano. Tungurahua produced a 7 km / ~23,000 foot ash plume, which […]
In Guantánamo Files, the New York Times coverage of Guantánamo from WikiLeaks documents, one piece in particular caught my attention: a discussion of the difficulty of judging detainees’ risk of […]
Have you ever seen the French film Trop Belle Pour Toi? It’s the story of a married car dealer who has an affair with his very ordinary secretary. Doesn’t sound […]
Less than a decade after sending its first human into orbit, Beijing is working on a multi-capsule outpost in space. The project proves that power is shifting among nations with space ambitions.
The Allen Telescope Array, a set of 42 radio telescopes that has been searching for alien signals and conducting astronomical research since 2007, has been shut down due to budget cuts.
The 25th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster, the explosion in 1986 of a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine, comes at a time of international concern.
The increasing number of urban gardens that are springing up across cities like Washington, D.C. are much more than the addition of new green space, they are important sites of […]