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The One Good Thing About Cyberattacks
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The One Good Thing About Cyberattacks

The normally humdrum world of IT security is heating up, and not just because of comedian Stephen Colbert's controversial closing keynote at last week's RSA Conference...

The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple
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The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple

Shortly after Tim Cook succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple in August 2011, he told a confidant that he got up every morning reminding himself just to do the right...

Software Tools to Assure Security of Smartphones
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Software Tools to Assure Security of Smartphones

"Catastrophe is all but inevitable if cyber security measures fail to match the sophistication of saboteurs," says Suraj Kothari, Richardson Professor in Electrical...

Basic Questions About Pi Remain Unanswered
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Basic Questions About Pi Remain Unanswered

Pi stands apart, according to David H. Bailey and Jonathan Borwein. It is the only mathematical topic from antiquity still being researched today.

This Simple Data-Scraping Tool Could Change How Apps Are Made
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This Simple Data-Scraping Tool Could Change How Apps Are Made

The number of web pages on the internet is somewhere north of two billion, perhaps as many as double that.

Dream Job: Digital Instrument Creator
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Dream Job: Digital Instrument Creator

Sometimes playing a guitar with a plectrum isn't enough.

Five Reasons Why Your It Job Search Is Getting Harder
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Five Reasons Why Your It Job Search Is Getting Harder

Five major IT hiring trends have the potential to change the recruiting landscape over the next 12 months.

What Jobs Will the Robots Take?
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What Jobs Will the Robots Take?

Nearly half of American jobs today could be automated in within two decades, according to new research.

IBM Wants to See Your Watson Mobile Apps
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IBM Wants to See Your Watson Mobile Apps

IBM has announced its Watson Mobile Developer Challenge for mobile software developers to create applications that use its Watson cognitive computing platform on...

Meet the Seven People Who Hold the Keys to Worldwide Internet Security
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Meet the Seven People Who Hold the Keys to Worldwide Internet Security

In a nondescript industrial estate in El Segundo, a boxy suburb in south-west Los Angeles just a mile or two from LAX international airport, 20 people wait in a...

Futurist Says We'll ­se Lasers to Beam Our Minds Into Space Someday Soon
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Futurist Says We'll ­se Lasers to Beam Our Minds Into Space Someday Soon

The idea of erasing and implanting memories is a common feature of science fiction films such as Total Recall and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

The Evolution of the Twitter Revolution
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The Evolution of the Twitter Revolution

Experts say social media is playing an evolving role in organizing and broadcasting global protest movements. "It's becoming increasingly difficult to imagine...

Social Media’s 'law' of Short Messages
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Social Media’s 'law' of Short Messages

A newly published study shows a regular decline in the length of social media messages during public events as the volume of messages increases.

Xi Jinping Leads Internet Security Group
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Xi Jinping Leads Internet Security Group

President Xi Jinping will head the central Internet security and informatization leading group, according to a statement released after the first meeting of the...

A Four-Minute Explanation of Why Innovation Is So Important to the ­nited States
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A Four-Minute Explanation of Why Innovation Is So Important to the ­nited States

What makes America great?

New Search Engine Delivers Content Matched to Student Ability
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New Search Engine Delivers Content Matched to Student Ability

An Internet search engine developed specifically for schools is being tested as a way to increase reading abilities in challenged students and help motivate intellectual...

TrustyCon's RSA Conference Rebels Promise More to Come
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TrustyCon's RSA Conference Rebels Promise More to Come

What started as a one-man boycott of the annual RSA Conference here in response to the confab'sparent company's ties to the National Security Agency has begun to...

How an ­nlikely Group of High-Tech Wizards Revived Obama's Troubled Healthcare.gov Website
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How an ­nlikely Group of High-Tech Wizards Revived Obama's Troubled Healthcare.gov Website

Last Oct. 17—more than two weeks after the launch of HealthCare.gov—White House chief of staff Denis McDonough came back from Baltimore rattled by what he had learned...

Battery-Free Technology Brings Gesture Recognition to All Devices
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Battery-Free Technology Brings Gesture Recognition to All Devices

University of Washington computer scientists have built a low-cost gesture recognition system that runs without batteries and lets users control their electronic...

Publishers Withdraw More Than 120 Gibberish Papers
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Publishers Withdraw More Than 120 Gibberish Papers

The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer...
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