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US 'falling way behind' on high-speed internet

US 'falling way behind' on high-speed internet

Law professor Susan Crawford says that American Internet service is falling behind other nations because cable companies have such dominance in many markets, and that will undermine our ability to compete in a global economy.

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Woolly mammoths' taste for flowers may have been their undoing

Woolly mammoths' taste for flowers may have been their undoing

New research shows that these giant creatures depended on flowers rather than grass as a vital source of protein. When the flowers disappeared, the mammoths did, too.
by Geoff Brumfiel

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This artificial hand feels what you touch

This artificial hand feels what you touch

It's not quite the bionics of science fiction, but European researchers have created a robotic hand that gave an amputee a sense of touch he hadn't felt in a decade.
by The Associated Press

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Experiment adds sense of touch to artificial hand

To feel what you touch -- that's the holy grail for artificial limbs. In a step toward that goal, European researchers created a robotic hand that let an amputee feel differences between a bottle, a baseball and a mandarin orange.
by The Associated Press

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Car-to-car talk: Hey, look out for that collision!

Your car might see a deadly crash coming even if you don't, the government says, indicating it will require automakers to equip new vehicles with technology that lets cars warn each other if they're plunging toward peril.
by The Associated Press

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Yahoo email account passwords stolen

The breach is the second problem for Yahoo's mail service in two months. In December, the service suffered a multi-day outage that prompted Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer issue an apology.
by The Associated Press

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New machine can sequence $1,000 human genome

New machine can sequence $1,000 human genome

Kenneth Beckman, director of the Biomedical Genomics Centers at the University of Minnesota, calls next-generation sequencing "the killer app of genomics."

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Asteroid belt may be just one big melting pot of space rocks

Asteroid belt may be just one big melting pot of space rocks

The asteroid belt, a ring of rubble between Mars and Jupiter, has sometimes been written off as discarded leftovers from the solar system's start. But new research shows that the belt actually formed during an unruly later era, when planets themselves were on the move.
by Geoff Brumfiel

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China's Jade Rabbit rover may be doomed on the moon

China's Jade Rabbit rover may be doomed on the moon

The rover was part of a headline-grabbing push by China to get to the moon. On December 14, the nation's Chang'e 3 lander gently touched down on the lunar surface. It was the first spacecraft to make a soft landing there in nearly four decades.
by Geoff Brumfiel

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Government, Internet companies reach deal on disclosure

The Justice Department reached agreements with Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc., Facebook Inc. and LinkedIn Corp. that would resolve those companies' legal challenges before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The companies had asked judges to allow them allow them to disclose data on national security orders the companies have received under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
by The Associated Press

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