Merchant Terminals Provide New Method For Stealing Customer's Credit Cards March 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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UK based Timesonline reports a flurry of credit card fraud in the first half of 2007. Researchers at Cambridge found chip and PIN merchant terminals lack necessary security encryption. The merchant terminal can be programmed ... | |
Cooperative system could wipe out car alarm noise June 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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The persistent, annoying blare of an ignored car alarm may become a sound of the past if a cooperative, mutable and silent network of monitors proposed by Penn State researchers is deployed in automobiles and parking lots. | |
 MIT team cooks up simple fuel recipe August 01, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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MIT student Jules Walter has seen firsthand the impact of deforestation in his native Haiti: Nearly 98 percent of the island's forests are gone, and more trees are being cut down every year. | |
The trouble with hybrids: Hybrid electric vehicles not as green as they are painted February 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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Hybrid electric vehicles that run on both conventional gasoline and stored electricity can be no more than a stop gap until more sustainable technology is developed, according to researchers in France. Writing in the Inderscience ... | |
There's History and Money in Obsolete Computers April 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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In the first purchase of his collection, Sellam Ismail loaded the trunk of his car with old computers he stumbled upon at a flea market for $5 apiece. Soon he had filled his three-car garage with what others would consider ... | |
The cell phone connects to the hip bone July 11, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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U.S. scientists are developing a technology that allows mobile electronic devices to communicate by sending vibrations through bones. | |
Heat wave may stress nation's power system August 07, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Increasing demands on an aging U.S. power infrastructure are likely to make headlines this week as temperatures in the Midwest and South approach 100 degrees. The nation’s economic growth since the 1950s has “outstripped ... | |
Dutch researchers demonstrate new control techniques for preventing aircraft crashes November 16, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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On Wednesday 21 November, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) will demonstrate how improved control techniques can reduce the risk of aircraft crashes. The demonstration involves reconstructing troubled flights – such ... | |
Green Home Tech Wins National Inventor Award May 13, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Green technology got another nod Thursday night when an environmentally friendly method for building homes took the top prize at an annual inventors challenge sponsored by The History Channel and a division of the Inventors ... | |
Smart Suit Doesn't Miss a Beat July 03, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Imagine wearing a smart T-shirt or a suit embedded with tiny electronics that can monitor your heart or respiratory function wirelessly. When dirty, you take it off and throw it in the wash or have it dry-cleaned. | |
Virtual reality can yield real legal woes March 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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What your avatar does in an online fantasy world may very well land you in court. As virtual worlds increasingly generate real-world legal disputes, a cyberlaw scholar at the Rutgers School of Law—Camden is authoring a book ... | |
 NIST 'Standard Bullet' fights gang violence January 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a copper bullet designed to help end criminal sprees without once being fired. Crime laboratories can use NIST's "Standard ... | |
Killer military robots pose latest threat to humanity February 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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A robotics expert at the University of Sheffield will today (27 February 2008) issue stark warnings over the threat posed to humanity by new robot weapons being developed by powers worldwide. | |
Another Worker Pays the Price for Fabricating Resume April 28, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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The book "Freakonomics" estimates that 50 percent of people lie on their resumes. Marilee Jones is one of them, and it cost her a high-profile job at MIT. | |
 Biometric Passport Control: No Place To Hide September 25, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Siemens is making border crossings in Europe more secure through biometric systems that store individual characteristics such as fingerprints and facial photos on a chip integrated into a passport. | |
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