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This Strange-Looking Drone Can Adjust Its Own Route Mid-Flight
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Autonomous drones can move quickly in open air, but cluttered environments are much harder. Buildings, trees, narrow passages and other obstacles leave little room...
New Hardware Attack Exposes a Blind Spot in Secure Cloud Computing
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The Unexpected Threat Military Radar Is Now Tracking: Birds
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SIM cards are normally treated as trusted components whose main job is to connect a device to a cellular network. New security research shows...
No GPS? This Quantum Sensor Navigates by Reading the Earth
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