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Reliable Communication, ­nreliable Networks
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Reliable Communication, ­nreliable Networks

A new model of wireless networks that better represents the real world could lead to more robust communications protocols.

Computing and Networking Capacity Increases at Academic Research Institutions
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Computing and Networking Capacity Increases at Academic Research Institutions

Academic research institutions have experienced a significant increase in cyberinfrastructure resources since 2005, according to a new report from the U.S. National...

Despite Job Boom, Fewer Students Study Tech
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Despite Job Boom, Fewer Students Study Tech

The number of computer and IT jobs grew 13 percent from 2003 to 2012, but the number of people with degrees in these fields from U.S. colleges and universities...

Will These Guys Kill The Computer Interface As We Know It?
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Will These Guys Kill The Computer Interface As We Know It?

David Holz took the main stage at this year's South by Southwest Interactive, the annual innovation conference in Austin, Texas, looking like a hobbit on casual...

Crypto Experts Issue a Call to Arms to Avert the Cryptopocalypse
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Crypto Experts Issue a Call to Arms to Avert the Cryptopocalypse

At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, a quartet of researchers, Alex Stamos, Tom Ritter, Thomas Ptacek, and Javed Samuel, implored everyone involved...

Code.org Ramps ­p With 3.5m Students
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Code.org Ramps ­p With 3.5m Students

Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi says about 90 percent of U.S. schools lack computer science programs due to a shortage of funds and teachers. There are over 40,000 high...

The 'Maker Movement' Inspires Shift in STEM Curriculum
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The 'Maker Movement' Inspires Shift in STEM Curriculum

A new curriculum from the Digital Harbor Foundation, BatelleEd, and Arizona State University reflects a shift that is occurring in education, from passive to active...

Fbi Taps Hacker Tactics to Spy on Suspects
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Fbi Taps Hacker Tactics to Spy on Suspects

Law-enforcement officials in the U.S. are expanding the use of tools routinely used by computer hackers to gather information on suspects, bringing the criminal...

The Future of Graphics and Gaming
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The Future of Graphics and Gaming

See the best new ideas in computer graphics and interaction from last week’s Siggraph conference.

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Google's Science Fellows Challenge the Company's Fund-Raising For Senator Inhofe

Ten years ago this week, Senator James M. Inhofe, the Republican from Oklahoma, used a two-hour floor speech to launch his campaign on the credibility of climate...

Giant Electromagnet Arrives at Fermilab
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Giant Electromagnet Arrives at Fermilab

For three nights in July, a big rig traveled slowly down the roads of suburban Illinois bearing an American flag and the warning sign "Oversize Load." The warning...

Vampir Takes a Bite Out of Inefficiency
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Vampir Takes a Bite Out of Inefficiency

Vampir, a software development toolset, can analyze in detail a running application as it is executed on the hundreds of thousands of processors of the Titan supercomputer...

NSA Announces Winner of Its First Annual 'Science of Security Competition'
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NSA Announces Winner of Its First Annual 'Science of Security Competition'

A research paper that was highlighted last year at an international symposium is the winner of the National Security Agency's first annual Science of Security (SoS)...

Obama Nominates Astrophysicist to Lead Nsf
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Obama Nominates Astrophysicist to Lead Nsf

Astrophysicist France Anne Cordova has been tapped to head the US National Science Foundation (NSF), which has been run by an acting director since March 2013.

Miscreants of the Internet Love to Torture Brian Krebs
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Miscreants of the Internet Love to Torture Brian Krebs

What is Brian Krebs?

Cold War Nuclear Stockpile Vault Declassified
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Cold War Nuclear Stockpile Vault Declassified

Los Alamos National Laboratory opened a recently declassified vault that was used to store nuclear materials during the Cold War to tours last month.

Top Robotic Helicopter Team Sets Sights on Impossible Mission
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Top Robotic Helicopter Team Sets Sights on Impossible Mission

If the mission sounds impossible, that's because it is — at least with today's technology.

Testing the Future: Astronaut in Space Remote-Controls Robot in California
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Testing the Future: Astronaut in Space Remote-Controls Robot in California

On a pebbled field built next to a parking lot, a small rover scoots forward and expels a long sheet of polyimide plastic from its backside, the third film the...

The Bell Labs of Quantum Computing
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The Bell Labs of Quantum Computing

Raymond Laflamme can't yet sell you a quantum computer. But he'll sell you a $13,000 logic board for measuring entangled photons.

The Brains Behind Research on the Brain
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The Brains Behind Research on the Brain

While studying physics and electrical engineering as an MIT undergraduate in the late 1990s, Mehmet Fatih Yanik managed to avoid taking any biology classes until...
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