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Small Asteroid to Whip Past Earth on June 27, 2011

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Trajectory of 2011 MD from the general direction of the Sun.

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Smarter Task-Transfers Use Mobile Cameras

MIT and Google have devised a method of transferring tasks between your smartphone and your computer by merely pointing the cell-phone camera at your PC's screen.

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Google’s Deep Shot, developed with MIT, transfers tasks from the desktop to a smartphone, or vice versa, by merely pointing the phone’s camera at the PC screen.

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Cassini Captures Ocean-Like Spray at Saturn Moon

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Dramatic plumes (cloudy, white areas), both large and small, spray water ice out from many locations along the famed "tiger stripes" near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

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Getting Ready for the Next Big Solar Storm

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Modern power grids are vulnerable to solar storms.

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Japan Retakes Supercomputing Lead

The latest version of the Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers was released yesterday and, as expected, there are many changes.

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The K Computer at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science is the world’s most powerful supercomputer today.

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Smarter Security Screening Hands-Free

A smarter, yet relatively inexpensive, security screening technology requires no human intervention to detect explosives, according to its developers.

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Post-doctoral researcher Thierry Dubroca at the University of Florida measures the spectra of TNT to demonstrate the selectivity of the UV-based detector.

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Smarter Sensor Nets Monitor Any Environment

Wireless sensor networks originally designed to monitor data center server farms by IBM are being deployed in new environments where they repurpose software analytics and cloud computing capabilities to solve a wider array of societal problems.

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Paolo Dionisi Vici (left), associate research scientist in the Department of Scientific Research at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Hendrik Hamann (right), research manager at IBM, discuss the environmental sensor network for preserving art.

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Building a Smarter City

Technologies save money, time and lives in rapidly growing urban areas.

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At the new Rio Operations Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the incident commander's view provides a summary of everything happening around the city on a video wall.

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Smarter Cloud on-a-Chip Goes Green

Intel is distributing a smarter experimental cloud computer on-a-chip to research organizations worldwide.

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Intel's Cloud 2015 Vision aims to help businesses implement cloud computing solutions that are federated, automated and client-aware.

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Smarter Implants Shielded From Cyber-Attack

Medical implants today receive wirelessly transmitted instructions from physicians regarding how to dispense their therapy, opening them to cyber-attacks that could potentially be fatal. However, a novel shield technology could secure access to the implants by virtue of an add-on medallion worn by the patient.

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The shield uses two antennas, one to transmit the jamming signal and the other to relay authenticated programming commands to the implant.