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NEWS
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3D
video for the rest of us
Now that digital cameras are a dime a dozen, it's
no longer far-fetched to imagine the average person installing
a dozen digital cameras to support three-dimensional videoconferencing...
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Infectious
antivirus protection
One way to curb computer viruses is to beat them
at their own game...
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Energy-free
communications
According to the laws of physics, you have to
expend energy to communicate. It turns out, though, that
you don't have to send that energy to the other party...
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A
motivated room
Intelligent rooms aim to track movement, recognize
gestures and understand spoken commands in order to control
lights, project information on the walls and tell you
who called while you were out...
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Bits
and pieces
A microfluidic bubble blower, bacterial photographic film
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FEATURES
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View
from the High Ground: Cornell's Jon Kleinberg
Six degrees of separation, buying gasoline
by the molecule, the science of popularity, all just getting
along online, intellectual prosthetics, Big Science, making
up questions, and telling stories.
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How
It Works: Quantum cryptography
Perfectly secure communications comes down to using the
quirks of quantum physics to reliably detect eavesdroppers.
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