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Administrators dismiss it as ‘napkin drawing’.

The Internet, and to a degree wireless networking developments, are an attractive source of inspiration for NASA engineers. After all, with budget constraints on everyones minds, if lessons can be lea

Penn State engineers demonstrate speeds of 100Gbps.

Security Engineers at the Cupertino have cancelled their planned session at this week's Black Hat security convention in Las Vegas.

Google's services suffer under the yoke of engineers.

There's been lots of talk about the touchscreen support within Microsoft's Windows 7, but up till now we haven't seen much detail. Now Microsoft has released videos showing iPhone-like multi-touch gesture control.

Investigators baffled over source of fire.

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Boffins manage to control spectral properties of ultrafast light pulses.

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