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  New California laws will provide free digital textbooks to university students

  By Andrew Webster on September 30, 2012 11:58 pm + 85 comments

  The Obama administration has said that it wants all students using digital textbooks within five Continue reading…

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  California governor signs laws protecting social media accounts from employers, universities

  By Jeff Blagdon on September 28, 2012 06:34 am + 17 comments

  The fight to prevent California employers and universities from demanding your Facebook login as a Continue reading…

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  Cambridge researchers develop cheap, inkjet-printed liquid crystal lasers

  By Jeff Blagdon on September 21, 2012 05:59 am + 3 comments

  Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a way to produce high quality liquid Continue reading…

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  Learn to build a Raspberry Pi operating system, courtesy of Cambridge University

  By Adi Robertson on September 3, 2012 03:11 pm + 18 comments

  The $25 or $35 Raspberry Pi computer is a favorite of coders, who've turned it into a synth and e Continue reading…

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  Uncovering the 'anternet': Stanford researchers find insects' behavior mirrors our own networks

  By Jeff Blagdon on August 27, 2012 07:28 am + 29 comments

  Stanford professors have discovered that ants are so efficient at foraging, the way they determine Continue reading…

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  Michigan's $22 million connected vehicle pilot program aims to make cars as smart as phones

  By Jeff Blagdon on August 22, 2012 03:39 am + 10 comments

  While Google is hard at work on self-driving cars, the US Department of Transportation and Continue reading…

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  Room-temperature maser could make talking to space a much simpler affair

  By Louis Goddard on August 16, 2012 07:01 am + 19 comments

  Scientists at the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have managed to produce a solid-state Continue reading…

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  Researchers creating 'Hell Cell' microbe that could survive on Mars

  By Evan Rodgers on August 8, 2012 03:36 pm + 27 comments

  Undergraduate researchers at Stanford and Brown Universities are at work creating what they call a Continue reading…

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  Emergency response app that uses full-3D campus renders to guide officers tested by UNC Charlotte

  By Justin Rubio on July 29, 2012 06:23 am + 21 comments

  The UNC Charlotte police department recently ran a training exercise to test a new app with hopes to Continue reading…

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  Scientists restore light sensitivity in blind mice using simple chemical injection

  By Vlad Savov on July 26, 2012 07:06 am + 9 comments

  Eyesight restoration has deservedly been the subject of much research over the years, but the latest Continue reading…