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A fleet of 100 floating robots took a trip down the Sacramento River on May 9, in a field test. The devices, equipped with GPS-enabled smartphones, demonstrated the next generation of water-monitoring technology, promising to transform the way government agencies track one of the state's most precious resources.

Using breakthrough techniques on some of the world's fastest supercomputers -- scientists have reported a landmark calculation of a kind of subatomic particle decay that's important to understanding matter/antimatter asymmetry. The research helps nail down the exact process of kaon decay, and is also inspiring the development of a new generation of supercomputers.

The "experts" are at it again and I feel that it's my duty to set 'em straight.

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The social network's new photography app appears to replicate many features of Instagram which it is buying for $1bn.

A cybercrime mastermind who hijacked the PCs of more than 30 million people has been jailed for four years.

Being able to break security doesn’t make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer. - Eric Raymond

Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working. - Dave Barry, Claw Your Way to the Top