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  1. Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results May Be Due to Bad Cables 22 Feb 2012, 11:01 pm
    The sensational result that neutrinos can travel faster than the speed of light may be undone by nothing more than a simple mechanical error.
  2. Real Fish Welcome Robotic Overlord Into Their School 22 Feb 2012, 7:41 pm
    A robotic fish has sailed across an aquatic uncanny valley by tricking real fish into following it upstream.
  3. Collaborate and edit anywhere with the updated Google Docs for Android 22 Feb 2012, 7:12 pm
    As I was sitting on the ferry commuting to Google’s Sydney office this morning, two thoughts occurred to me. First, Australia is beautiful. If you’ve never been here, you really should visit. And. […]
  4. Priceless Science: Striking Finds From a Rare-Book Fair 22 Feb 2012, 11:30 am
    From Audubon’s The Birds of America, a first edition of which sold last month at auction for $7.9 million, to Copernicus’ heliocentric sketch that changed the world, we’ve selected the most rema. […]
  5. Google to sell heads-up display glasses by year’s end 22 Feb 2012, 10:16 am
    Google-made glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyeballs in real time will go on sale to the public by the end of the year, according to unnamed Google employees, the N. […]
  6. Taser’s latest police weapon: the tiny camera and the cloud 22 Feb 2012, 10:04 am
    TASER International has announced new kind of camera called AXON flex, to be worn by police officers. The half-ounce unit is about the size of a cigar stub and clips on to a collar or sunglasses of. […]
  7. A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 22 22 Feb 2012, 5:01 am
    Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  8. Ubuntu for Android Turns Your Phone Into a Desktop Computer 22 Feb 2012, 1:27 am
    Cramming a desktop environment onto a smartphone is a fun project that promises very little actual usefulness. But now Canonical's Ubuntu for Android takes a different approach, surfacing the desktop. […]
  9. Apache Web Server Gets First Facelift in 6 Years 22 Feb 2012, 12:56 am
    The world's most popular web server just got a facelift. On Tuesday, for the first time in over six years, the Apache Software Foundation unveiled a new version of its eponymous web server, which runs. […]
  10. How Many Different Ways Can the Same iPad 3 Rumors Be Reblogged? 22 Feb 2012, 12:41 am
    We know. You're excited about the iPad 3. We are too. And so is just about everyone else who follows consumer tech hardware. Rumors about Apple's upcoming tablet have been pouring in for months, and w. […]
  11. How Patent Battles Threaten the Simple Act of Unlocking a Phone 21 Feb 2012, 10:31 pm
    Unlocking a smartphone is perhaps its most basic function. It's a no-frills feature, but an important one. And yet over the past six months, the simple act of unlocking a phone has grown absurdly cont. […]
  12. Apple's iCloud Has Solar Lining 21 Feb 2012, 9:09 pm
  13. NASA Launches Rocket Into Northern Lights 21 Feb 2012, 8:42 pm
    Scientists recently sent a 46-foot rocket sailing through the shimmering green band of energy known as the northern lights.
  14. Barfipelago: Using Twitter to Fight Virus Outbreak 21 Feb 2012, 8:20 pm
    Norovirus can spread among people very, very fast. But not as fast as Twitter. When an outbreak hit the annual Archipelago journalism conference -- subsequently dubbed "Barfipelago" -- attendees and o. […]
  15. Barfipelago: Using Twitter to Fight Virus Outbreak 21 Feb 2012, 8:20 pm
    Norovirus can spread among people very, very fast. But not as fast as Twitter. When an outbreak hit the annual Archipelago journalism conference -- subsequently dubbed "Barfipelago" -- attendees and o. […]
  16. Barnes & Noble Delivers New 8GB Tablet, Disappointing Earnings 21 Feb 2012, 3:57 pm
    The new tablet and price drop are aggressive, revenue-boosting moves coming on the same day as B&N's quarterly earnings report.
  17. Not Dead Yet: Moon Still Seismically Active 21 Feb 2012, 3:15 pm
    Earth's moon seems seismically quiet -- its major volcanic and tectonic activity is confined to its distant past. But recent images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal smaller features that h. […]
  18. Drones in Afghanistan, drones in … Akron? 21 Feb 2012, 1:49 pm
    Now that American civilians have wide latitude to use drone aircraft, the potential is dizzying: shooting Hollywood films, crop dusting, monitoring weather, spying on neighbors, photographing celebr. […]
  19. Braille-like texting app speeds up typing on smartphones 21 Feb 2012, 1:43 pm
    Ever need to text a note under the table during a meeting or during class without anyone knowing it? Georgia Tech researchers have a solution: a free open-source iPhone app called BrailleTouch. No, it. […]
  20. E-prescription systems may reduce costly and dangerous medication-related errors 21 Feb 2012, 1:18 pm
    E-prescription systems have emerged as a more effective method for entering drug orders, as a response to the problem of medication errors, according to Patexia. With an e-prescription system, the hea. […]
  21. Prune bad brain wiring with magnetic pulses 21 Feb 2012, 1:05 pm
    Zapping the brain with a weak magnetic pulse can wipe out unwanted neural connections, in mice at least. The discovery could lead to treatment for conditions associated with abnormal neural circuitry,. […]
  22. Traffic intersections of the future will control autonomous vehicles 21 Feb 2012, 12:46 pm
    Intersections of the future won’t need stop lights or stop signs. They’ll look like a somewhat chaotic flow of driverless, autonomous cars slipping past one another as they are managed by a virt. […]
  23. Top 10 iPad/iPhone Gaming Peripherals 21 Feb 2012, 11:00 am
  24. A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 21 21 Feb 2012, 5:01 am
    Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  25. Single-atom transistor is ‘end of Moore’s Law’ and ‘beginning of quantum computing’ 20 Feb 2012, 1:30 pm
    The smallest transistor ever built has been created using a single phosphorous atom by an international team of researchers at the University of New South Wales, Purdue University and the University. […]
  26. Lighting a fire under satellite broadband 20 Feb 2012, 1:13 pm
    ViaSat is hoping to leave the rest of the satellite broadband universe in the dust with Exede, a new satellite broadband service that the Carlsbad, Calif., satellite communications company claims will. […]
  27. Pentagon’s project ‘Avatar’: same as the movie, but with robots instead of aliens 20 Feb 2012, 1:10 pm
    Soldiers practically inhabiting the mechanical bodies of androids, who will take the humans’ place on the battlefield. Or sophisticated tech that spots a powerful laser ray, then stops it from oblit. […]
  28. Nanoparticles in food, vitamins could harm human health 20 Feb 2012, 1:06 pm
    Billions of engineered nanoparticles in foods and pharmaceuticals are ingested by humans daily, and new Cornell University research warns they may be more harmful to health than previously thought. Th. […]
  29. Das Model S Professional Keyboard Brings the Clickety-Clack to Your Mac 20 Feb 2012, 12:30 pm
  30. Unifying silicon- and DNA-based computing 20 Feb 2012, 12:06 pm
    A North Carolina State University chemist has found a way to give DNA-based computing better control over logic operations. His work could lead to interfacing DNA-based computing with traditional sili. […]
  31. Graphene-based chips a step closer 20 Feb 2012, 11:47 am
    Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new method for chemically altering graphene, a development that could be a step toward the creation of faster, thinner, flexible electronics. Gr. […]
  32. Disease-Fighting Secrets of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes 20 Feb 2012, 11:35 am
    New strategies to alter the genes of mosquitoes hold promise for fighting the spread of diseases such as malaria and dengue fever. This gallery of GM mosquitoes covers some of the latest research.
  33. H5N1 influenza virus research to continue, says WHO 20 Feb 2012, 11:03 am
    Despite biosafety and biosecurity concerns, research on the naturally occurring H5N1 influenza virus “must continue in order to protect public health”: that was the consensus of global public heal. […]
  34. A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 20 20 Feb 2012, 5:01 am
    Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  35. A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 19 19 Feb 2012, 5:01 am
    Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
  36. "Hack of All Trades" - An Interview With Eureka Co-Creator Andrew Cosby (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) 18 Feb 2012, 12:30 pm
  37. Company unveils DNA sequencing device meant to be portable, disposable and cheap 18 Feb 2012, 10:49 am
    DNA sequencing is becoming both faster and cheaper. Now, it is also becoming tinier. Oxford Nanopore Technologies said on Friday that by the end of 2012 it would begin selling a “pay-as-you-go” d. […]
  38. A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Feb. 18 18 Feb 2012, 5:01 am
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  39. Gadget Lab Podcast: Mountain Lion, Android Phones and a Scary Set of Knives 18 Feb 2012, 12:46 am
  40. Why Apple Didn't Include Siri in OS X Mountain Lion 17 Feb 2012, 8:11 pm
    Apple's latest OS X update, Mountain Lion, adds a slate of new features, nearly all derived from iOS 5. There's one big omission, however: Siri, Apple's voice-controlled virtual assistant, does not ma. […]