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  • Aussie team takes DARPA race smarts to business

    An Australian team has used knowledge gained from the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge to help corporate and government projects.

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    For Tony Tether, an upcoming race of robot cars isn't just about creating new technology for the military. It's also designed to inspire a new generation of technologists.

  • High schoolers take on experts in robot race

    Nineteen teams, including one from a California high school, have qualified to enter a robotic-car race with a purse of US$1 million, and six more may be allowed to join, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said this week.

  • Empty promises and tech's future

    In his first campaign for president, Bill Clinton assured Americans that he would boost government's involvement in science and technology.

  • US Defence pulls open source funding

    The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons.

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  • Intel hammering out robot standards

    Intel is developing standards for building inexpensive robots that eventually could automatically inspect industrial equipment or take aerial photographs.

  • CPU roadmap: server processors

    In the world of processors, attention seems firmly focused on the fast-paced desktop and mobile markets. But that doesn't mean that there's nothing going on in server-land.

  • OpenBSD 3.3 released despite funding cut

    The latest version of the popular OpenBSD (Berkley Software Distribution) was released today, and is available for download from FTP sites.

  • Software heals systems while they work

    Researchers claims to have developed software that can repair a database that has been attacked, even as it continues to process transactions.

  • A day at the office in 2013

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Reviews (7)

  • Intel hammering out robot standards

    Intel is developing standards for building inexpensive robots that eventually could automatically inspect industrial equipment or take aerial photographs.

  • Software tweak may make operating systems safer

    The OpenBSD project is making changes in its latest operating system release that it believes could eliminate a class of security bugs that has plagued computers for decades.

  • Humans look to robot race

    Commentary: Cars are fun, but they kill people. Can the US defence industry help change this unendearing side effect of modern motoring?

  • Meet Intel's resident Nostradamus

    David Tennenhouse is one of Intel's big-picture guys, looking for the next decade's big thing. His forecasts for the chipmaker and the industry may surprise you.

  • OpenBSD 3.3 released despite funding cut

    The latest version of the popular OpenBSD (Berkley Software Distribution) was released today, and is available for download from FTP sites.

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