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How Google's Ear Hears
How Google's Ear Hears
The new voice-search application for the iPhone marks a milestone for spoken interfaces.
Obama's NASA Dilemma
Obama's NASA Dilemma
The fate of the U.S. space program hangs in the balance.
An Algorithm with No Secrets
An Algorithm with No Secrets
Cryptographers will compete to define a new standard.
The Coming Wireless Revolution
The Coming Wireless Revolution
Gadgets that operate over television frequencies promise to transform the wireless landscape.

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One Account to Rule Them All
A new service combines many ways of communicating.
Laser Lunar Landing System
NASA is developing optical sensors for safer touchdowns.
Firefox on Your Cell Phone
Can Fennec, Mozilla's new mobile browser, compete?
Borderline Security
RFID chips in U.S. passport cards and some driver's licenses are at risk of being counterfeited or tracked, researchers say.
Opening the Airwaves
By opening up its network, Verizon Wireless hopes to see all sorts of new devices connect.
A Better Network for Outer Space
Why Vint Cerf wants to put Internet-style networking in space.
Searching for the Mobile Web
Industry leaders hope that new technologies will make mobile search more usable.
Telescopes See Farther
Advances in adaptive optics are bringing the universe into focus.
A Helmet Patch to Measure Blasts
Researchers are developing a cheap, lightweight plastic strip that can be worn on a soldier's helmet to help diagnose brain injury.
Sticky Nanotape
Carbon-nanotube adhesive outperforms gecko feet and could aid climbing robots.
Ensuring Chip Stability
Hardware bugs could be avoided by limiting chips to tested behaviors.
China's Eye on Web Chatter
Poorly protected files reveal a massive surveillance scheme.
Wireless at Fiber Speeds
New millimeter-wave technology sends data at 10 gigabits per second.
Android Has Arrived
Google's phone has plenty of potential, but some say its mechanism for delivering applications could lead to problems.
Awaiting the Google Phone
Whether Google has succeeded in revolutionizing the cell phone may depend on who you ask.
A Face-Finding Search Engine
A new approach to face recognition is better at handling low-resolution video.

Communications Blogs

Astronauts Lose $100,000 Tool Kit
Test-Driving Google Voice Search
Repairing Hubble
New Slices of Spectrum
Rich Miner Speaks
Dear Mr. President
What Happened at the Large Hadron Collider
Robert Scoble's Opinions on EmTech08
Using the Technological Capability We Have
A Goal of Impermanence

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Nuclear Deterrence in the Age of Nuclear Terrorism
Nuclear Deterrence in the Age of Nuclear Terrorism

Graham Allison, a professor of government at Harvard University and the director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, talks about the threat of nuclear terrorism.
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