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Is Your Digital Information More at Risk Today Than It Was Ten Years Ago?
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Is Your Digital Information More at Risk Today Than It Was Ten Years Ago?

Researchers say that data breaches are not happening more frequently than they did a decade ago, and that in general they are not growing in size.

What Celebrities Can Teach Companies About Social Media
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What Celebrities Can Teach Companies About Social Media

Let's face it: Corporate America's social presence could use a celebrity makeover.

Tech Startups Chase Something Other Than Profits
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Tech Startups Chase Something Other Than Profits

At a demo day in San Francisco on Wednesday, Joyce Kim's presentation of her financial tech startup sounded a lot like a tech startup pitching venture capitalists...

Inside China's Plan to Give Every Citizen a Character Score
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Inside China's Plan to Give Every Citizen a Character Score

Where you go, what you buy, who you know, how many points are on your driving licence, how your pupils rate you.

Driverless Cars? Not So Fast
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Driverless Cars? Not So Fast

David Mindell, an MIT professor and author, argues that self-driving cars could be achieved without full autonomy.

Computer Science Now Top Major For Women at Stanford ­niversity
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Computer Science Now Top Major For Women at Stanford ­niversity

 Computer science has for the first time become the most popular major for female students at Stanford University, a hopeful sign for those trying to build up the...

New California Law Extends Privacy Rights to Electronic Data
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New California Law Extends Privacy Rights to Electronic Data

California now requires police to get a court order before they can search messages, photos and other digital data stored on phones or company servers in the nation's...

Pilots Can't Stop Cockpit Video Forever
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Pilots Can't Stop Cockpit Video Forever

It was after 11 p.m. on March 30, 2013, when the Alaska Department of Public Safety helicopter lifted off near Talkeetna, north of Anchorage, after rescuing a stranded...

A Shocking Way to Fix the Brain
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A Shocking Way to Fix the Brain

When Emad Eskandar talks about one of his neurosurgery patients with obsessive compulsive disorder, he's not talking about someone who arranges his record collection...

Electronics Get a Power Boost with the Addition of Simple Material
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Electronics Get a Power Boost with the Addition of Simple Material

Penn State materials scientist have given the workhorse transistor a big boost using a new technique to incorporate vanadium oxide into the device.

What's Our Obsession with Steve Jobs All About?
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What's Our Obsession with Steve Jobs All About?

The new movie "Steve Jobs" provides yet another take on the well known business celebrity. Thomas Streeter, professor of sociology at the University of Vermont,...

Smaller U.s. Businesses Fear Freeze from Eu Privacy Ruling
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Smaller U.s. Businesses Fear Freeze from Eu Privacy Ruling

U.S. businesses from online coupon company RetailMeNot Inc to security software company Symantec Corp said a European change to rules governing transatlantic personal...

Start-­ps Picked By Disney Hint at Future Tech For Children
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Start-­ps Picked By Disney Hint at Future Tech For Children

How will Disney use technology to captivate the children of the future?

New Programming Approach Seeks to Make Large-Scale Computation More Reliable
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New Programming Approach Seeks to Make Large-Scale Computation More Reliable

The GVR project looks to deny the physical limitations that threaten the progressive computing improvements described by Moore's Law.

 NSF Awards $74.5 Million to Support Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Research
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NSF Awards $74.5 Million to Support Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Research

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $74.5 million in research grants related to securing cyberspace. The funding will support 257 new projects involving...

New Report Puts Numbers on Data Scientist Trend
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New Report Puts Numbers on Data Scientist Trend

Data scientist–a job that barely existed a decade ago–has become one of the hottest and best-paid professions in the U.S.

Tech Companies Can Blame Snowden For Data Privacy Decision
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Tech Companies Can Blame Snowden For Data Privacy Decision

A ruling the Europe Union’s highest court yesterday may create enormous headaches for US tech companies like Google and Facebook.

Can the Pentagon Do Business with Silicon Valley?
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Can the Pentagon Do Business with Silicon Valley?

"Want to see the bin Laden compound?"

Doe Creates Center For Computational Materials at Argonne
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Doe Creates Center For Computational Materials at Argonne

The U.S. Department of Energy will provide $12 million over four years to establish a computational materials center at Argonne National Laboratory that will develop...

Enhancing Movement With Computational Models
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Enhancing Movement With Computational Models

MIT Ph.D. student David Hill maps human locomotion in detail to improve rehabilitative and assistive robotic devices.
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