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The Army Wants You ... To Be a Virtual Lab Rat
In the Army's latest call for research proposals, the service is looking for ways to develop a "Virtual Laboratory of Aggregate Behavior," or VLAB. Put simply, the program would yield a digital domain wherein hundreds or thousands of civilians could assemble and partake in "randomized controlled trial experiments" of the Army's design.
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Russian Drill Penetrates 14-Million-Year-Old Antarctic Lake
After 20 years of drilling, a team of Russian researchers has breached the prehistoric Lake Vostok, which has been trapped deep beneath Antarctica for the last 14 million years.
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A Rose by Any Other Name Might Smell as Sweet, But it Would Probably Be Larger
The JS1K contest seeks the web's smallest, most impressive JavaScript experiments. This year's love-themed entries include a remarkable 3D rose rendered with less than 1k of code.
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Rdio's Android Player Gets a Much-Needed Update
The subscription-based streaming music service has just released a completely redesigned Android app that fixes all of the little annoyances.
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Superbowl at Sea: Marines Prep for Huge Wargame with Gridiron Fight
ABOARD THE U.S.S. WASP -- Very early Monday morning, over 14,000 U.S. sailors, Marines and their foreign allies will launch the most ambitious naval war game in a decade, testing their ability to come ashore by sea and air from dozens of miles out in the Atlantic Ocean against a hostile force, (hopefully) demonstrating that amphibious warfare is back after ten years of grueling land battles. And tonight, in the hangar deck of this 40,000-ton assault ship, no one cares.
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Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the Future Is Here
Robotic vehicles, from Google to Mercedes, have arrived. So what form and purpose will these cars have when we finally let go of the wheel?
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Feb. 6, 1959: Titan Launches; Cold War Heats Up
The United States successfully test-fires its first Titan I intercontinental ballistic missile. The threat of global nuclear holocaust moves from the plausible to the likely.
Categories: Internet
API: Three Letters That Change Life, the Universe and Even Detroit
There was a time when APIs were just a way of building applications for a desktop operating system like Microsoft Windows. But in the age of the internet, they have the power to plug applications into, well, almost anything. They've already transformed websites like Google and Facebook and Twitter into services that talk to a world of other applications, across PCs as well as mobile phones. But that's small potatoes. They're also reinventing old-world operations, including mobile carriers like AT&T and even auto makers like GM.
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