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Making Sense of Patterns in the Twitterverse
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Making Sense of Patterns in the Twitterverse

The winner of the best paper award at IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics 2013 conference this month described a powerful digital system capable of analyzing...

Securing the Cloud
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Securing the Cloud

A new algorithm solves a major problem with homomorphic encryption, which would let Web servers process data without decrypting it.

Despite Uncertainties, 46% of IT Employees are Looking
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Despite Uncertainties, 46% of IT Employees are Looking

The percentage of IT employees interested in getting a new job is rising, even as they lose confidence in the economic outlook, new survey data shows.

Memoir Describes Z Accelerator Experiments
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Memoir Describes Z Accelerator Experiments

The swan song of retiring Sandia physicist Tom Sanford is in a technical, yet personal, memoir about experiments that changed the course of research at particle...

How You and I Could Become Nodes in the Internet of Things
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How You and I Could Become Nodes in the Internet of Things

Ever wonder what the network infrastructure of the future will be? Try looking in the mirror.

Opening Dropbox
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Opening Dropbox

If you walk the halls at MIT, you may notice a lot of students wearing T-shirts bearing the Dropbox logo. It's a simple design—an opened box—but one that carries...

The $7,000 Computer Science Degree and the Future of Higher Education
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The $7,000 Computer Science Degree and the Future of Higher Education

Georgia Tech is rolling out an program that makes it possible for students to earn a three-year master's degree in computer science entirely online — and for...

Make Patent Trolls Pay in Court
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Make Patent Trolls Pay in Court

From an early age we are taught the importance of fighting fairly.

New All-Solid Sulfur-Based Battery Outperforms Lithium-Ion Technology
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New All-Solid Sulfur-Based Battery Outperforms Lithium-Ion Technology

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed and tested an all-solid lithium-sulfur battery with approximately four times the energy density of conventional...

Nasa Spacecraft Sees Tornado's Destructive Swath
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Nasa Spacecraft Sees Tornado's Destructive Swath

A new image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the extent of destruction...

Wisee ­ses Wi-Fi Signals to Recognize Body Gestures
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Wisee ­ses Wi-Fi Signals to Recognize Body Gestures

Researchers say they have found a way to detect and recognize human gestures based on how they affect Wi-Fi signals.

How a 16-Year-Old Won a Scholarship to Apple's Wwdc
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How a 16-Year-Old Won a Scholarship to Apple's Wwdc

A 16-year-old programmer named Ash Bhat is attending Apple's WWDC next week for free. How? He created an iOS app that earned him one of 150 scholarships.

In China, an Empire Built By Aping Apple
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In China, an Empire Built By Aping Apple

China is notorious for its knockoffs. But now comes a knockoff of one of the gods of American ingenuity: Steven P. Jobs.

The CIA Invests in Narrative Science and Its Automated Writers
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The CIA Invests in Narrative Science and Its Automated Writers

Narrative Science has already proven that its robot writers can make sentences that are good enough for newspapers and internal company reports. Now they're going...

Fixing America's Patent Problem Means Going Beyond Trolls
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Fixing America's Patent Problem Means Going Beyond Trolls

The so-called patent troll has become one of the tech industry’s favorite monsters in recent years, and on Tuesday the Obama administration announced it would ...

As Facebook Grows ­p, Grand Ambitions Get Reality Check
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As Facebook Grows ­p, Grand Ambitions Get Reality Check

Facebook, which once seemed poised to take over the Internet, is showing its limitations: a host of newer services are gaining ground among trend-setting youth;...

Educators Offer Strategy to Clean Up Cheating in Moocs
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Educators Offer Strategy to Clean Up Cheating in Moocs

Two University of Virginia researchers offer a solution to the potential for widespread cheating in massive open online courses, an obstacle to the courses' widespread...

Spintronics Approach Enables New Quantum Technologies
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Spintronics Approach Enables New Quantum Technologies

Researchers highlight the power of emerging quantum technologies in two papers recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Hack a Virus, Win a Prize: Scientist Recognized For 'useful' Germ Modding
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Hack a Virus, Win a Prize: Scientist Recognized For 'useful' Germ Modding

The inventor of a viral technology behind tomorrow's electric car batteries, flexible touchscreen computers, and non-invasive cancer screening was awarded a $500...

Indianapolis Speedway and ­niversity Library Put Racing History Online
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Indianapolis Speedway and ­niversity Library Put Racing History Online

A new digital collection made possible by the collaboration of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the University Library at Indiana University-Purdue University...
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