popular science in pictures
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The Large Hadron Collider shows its insides as upgrade work commences
Almost a year after the Higgs boson announcement, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is getting upgraded.
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Japan's NHK develops robot camera array for Matrix-like effects
Japan's public television broadcaster, NHK, has developed an array of video cameras that are synchronized to create "bullet time" shots like those popularized in the film The Matrix.
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Japan's Sharp looks to cleaning robots and strawberries to supplement TV biz
Ailing Japanese TV maker Sharp says it will try to break into a host of new industries, from industrial cleaning robots to raising strawberries, to supplement its core LCD business.
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Japan's NHK shows off haptic TV, mini 8k video camera
Japan's public television broadcaster, NHK, is working on technology that will allow people to watch TV with their fingers.
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Aibo, Walkman, Transformers, and Paro the baby robot seal in Japan tech hall of fame
An exhibition in Osaka, central Japan, has assembled a hall of fame for Japanese tech products, with hits including Sony's Walkman and Aibo, an original Tranformer toy, and Paro the baby seal robot on display.
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40 years ago, Ethernet's fathers were the startup kids
Bob Metcalfe, Dave Boggs and the rest of the scientists at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1973 were a lot like young developers at a Silicon Valley startup today.
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Worst security snafus of 2012
The first half of 2012 was pretty bad - from the embarrassing hack of a conversation between the FBI and Scotland Yard to a plethora of data breaches - and the second half wasn't much better, with events including Symantec's antivirus update mess and periodic attacks from hactivists at Anonymous.
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Can the US military fight a war with Twitter?
Students at a U.S. military graduate school in California are mining social media with new methods that may change the way the armed forces collect intelligence overseas.
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NASA research finds way into IT, consumer products
Aware of a history of heart disease in his family, then-50-year-old Gary F. Thompson saw his doctor for a checkup before he ran a Los Angeles marathon in the mid-1990s.
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The computer, once a tool for scientists, is becoming a collaborator
Computer science -- it's not just about hardware and software anymore.
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