10/27/12: Here are your weekly Tech Updates.
- Contest to build a disaster ready robot
- Fabric with the power to ward off pathogens
- US hits 4 of 5 targets in Pacific missile defense test
- With 'safe haven', desktop weaponeers resume work on 3D printed guns
- First missile launch from robotic navy boat
- Destroying nuclear waste with laser beams
- State-of-the-art beams from table-top accelerators: Part One: Focusing in on beam focus
- New self-healing coating for aluminum developed to replace cancer-causing product
- Molecular 3D bioprinting could mean getting drugs through email
- Scientists making fishy robots for naval research
- Self-powered sensors to monitor nuclear fuel rod status
- Google issues Maps API to keep closer tabs on vehicles
- Research team teaching robots to respond in disaster emergencies
- Living power cables discovered
- Danes develop eye-control software for phones, tablets
- Military plans new hypersonic flight after failure
- Ames Laboratory improving process to recycle rare-earth materials
- Scientists develop revolutionary nanotechnology copper solder
- NASA 3-D imaging radar to analyze, classify oil spills
- Next-generation antireflection coatings could boost solar photovoltaic cell efficiency
- Near-atomically flat silicon could help pave the way to new chemical sensors
- NASA pursues atom optics to detect the imperceptible
- Researchers discover new route to spin-polarized contacts on silicon

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