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New Wireless Technology Transforms the Remote

New remote control devices that use radio frequency rather than infrared to communicate are under development and making their way to market. The new devices overcome limitations of the IR-based devices and could greatly expand the functionality of the traditional remote control.

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Remote control devices using RF4CE technology could be used as a dashboard that monitors all types of systems in the home.

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Motion Control Vaults Augmented Reality

Augmented reality (AR) dazzled consumers at the recent Mobile World Congress (MWC 2012, Feb. 27-Mar.1, Barcelona) where splashy "x-ray-glasses" revealed hidden content. However, new behind-the-scenes motion-processing developments promised that there is much more to come.

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Novel AR demo developed with Qualcomm's Augmented Reality SDK by independent gaming developer Sahar Fikouhi reveals 3D objects hovering above an iPad's screen when scanning it with an iPhone's camera

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At 10, GRACE Continues Defying, and Defining, Gravity

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On March 17, 2002, NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) launched the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), a novel space mission that has given scientists a new understanding of changes in Earth's natural systems.

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Astronomers Find Cosmic Lenses with Feeding Black Holes

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The Hubble Space Telescope's sharp view was used to look for gravitational arcs and rings (indicated by arrows), which are produced when one galaxy acts as a lens to magnify and distort the appearance of another galaxy behind it. In this case, the foreground galaxies contain actively accreting black holes called quasars.

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Intel Courts Green Datacenters

Intel’s first server processor designed exclusively for the "green" datacenters of the future features eight cores per chip, a supercomputer-on-a-chip architecture, and novel new turbo- and energy efficiency-modes.

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Intel's newest Xeon E5-2680 processor offers a 70 percent improvement in performance for the same power consumption.

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NASA Releases New WISE Mission Catalog of Entire Infrared Sky

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This is a mosaic of the images covering the entire sky as observed by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), part of its All-Sky Data Release.

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Personal DNA Testing Made Easy

University of Illinois chemists coupled functional DNA sensors and glucose meters for fast, easy, portable detection of drugs, toxins, disease markers and other molecules in blood, water or food.

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As a home DNA detector, the ubiquitous glucose meter could become a general purpose detector that not only determines which type of virus or bacteria is in your bodily fluids or foods, but also quantifies the seriousness of the infection by revealing how much is present.

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Cassini Spies Wave Rattling Jet Stream on Jupiter

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Following the path of one of Jupiter's jet streams, a line of V-shaped chevrons travels west to east just above Jupiter's Great Red Spot.

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Cassini Captures New Images of Icy Moon

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NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this raw, unprocessed image of Saturn's moon Rhea on March 10, 2012. The camera was pointing toward Rhea at approximately 26,019 miles (41,873 kilometers) away.

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Mixed Future Awaits Hyper-Connected Youth

New 'lower class' will be those who are not up to speed

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Millennials can balance a lot of information. But, according to a new study, they give it superficial attention and are easily distracted.