Earlier this year, the FBI used a computer eavesdropping technique to ensnare two alleged Russian hackers.

BBC: FBI keeps its bugging secrets

However Christian Marois, of the NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Canada and his colleagues, developed a computer processing technique that was able to separate the light from HR 8799 from the light the planets are emitting they are still so young that they are glowing from heat left over from their formation about 60m years ago.

ECONOMIST: Planets are seen outside the Solar System

The computer's timing and technique are flawless, and it never plays a false note.

ECONOMIST: Musical computers

Nanotechnology techniques such as self-assembling promise researchers an intriguing alternative to continuing to refine the most commonly used technique for building transistors on silicon computer chips, namely, optical lithography.

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MRI, which stands for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, is a radiology technique which uses magnetism, radio waves, and a computer to produce a range of images of the body.

BBC: MRI scanner

Simon Clutterbuck, James Jacobs and Dr. Richard Dorling won for inventing a technique which has made huge advances in bringing to life computer-generated characters such as Gollum in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit.

BBC: The Hobbit picks up technical Oscar

Risco endeavored to inject molecular biology into computer sciences, having been inspired by a magazine article about a data encryption technique called steganography, the science of communicating in a manner that hides the existence of the communication.

CNN: Romanian teenager wins 'junior Nobel Prize' competition

The most common threat was a technique known as spear-phishing, which can corrupt a company's computer system by uploading malicious attachments and gaining access to sensitive information.

CNN: Homeland Security cites sharp rise in cyber attacks

Because the technique uses off-the-shelf wireless transceivers similar to those used in home computer networks, "the cost of this system will be cheaper than existing methods of monitoring breathing, " says Neal Patwari, senior author of a study of the new method and an assistant professor of electrical engineering.

ENGADGET: Researchers use wireless network to monitor breathing, could save lives