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Moving Common Apps to the Cloud Promises Significant Energy Savings
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Moving Common Apps to the Cloud Promises Significant Energy Savings

A six-month study led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found that moving common software applications used by 86 million U.S. workers to the cloud...

The Nsa Could Collect Far More Than Your Phone Records from Mobile Operators
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The Nsa Could Collect Far More Than Your Phone Records from Mobile Operators

The revelation that the National Security Agency is collecting our phone records has generated considerable outrage, but phone call metadata is just the beginning...

Vulcan Brings 5 Petaflops to Collaborations With Industry and Academia
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Vulcan Brings 5 Petaflops to Collaborations With Industry and Academia

The Vulcan supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is now available for collaborative work with industry and research universities to advance...

'chinese Google' ­nveils Visual Search Engine Powered By Fake Brains
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'chinese Google' ­nveils Visual Search Engine Powered By Fake Brains

Chinese search giant Baidu has served up its first ever visual search engine, which allows users to finally query the web using only images as input instead of...

Spies Like ­s: How We All Helped Build Prism
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Spies Like ­s: How We All Helped Build Prism

It used to be that the National Security Agency and its ilk had to pay through the nose for the latest in spying technology.

Titan Completes Acceptance Testing
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Titan Completes Acceptance Testing

ORNL's Titan supercomputer has completed rigorous acceptance testing to ensure the functionality, performance, and stability of the machine, one of the world's...

Hands-Free Talking and Texting Are Unsafe, Report Finds
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Hands-Free Talking and Texting Are Unsafe, Report Finds

Using hands-free devices to talk, text, or send e-mail while driving is distracting and risky, says a new University of Utah study issued by the AAA Foundation...

DARPA Robotics Challenge: The Search For the Perfect Robot Soldier
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DARPA Robotics Challenge: The Search For the Perfect Robot Soldier

The Atlas robot looks something out of the post-apocalyptic future, or maybe a Will Smith blockbuster. It's a 330lb cyborg with eerily human-like hands and a head...

How the ­.s. ­ses Technology to Mine More Data More Quickly
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How the ­.s. ­ses Technology to Mine More Data More Quickly

When American analysts hunting terrorists sought new ways to comb through the troves of phone records, e-mails, and other data piling up as digital communications...

Uc San Diego Launches New Research Computing Program
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Uc San Diego Launches New Research Computing Program

The University of California, San Diego has deployed a new high-performance research computing system called the Triton Shared Computing Cluster, serving researchers...

Drone Nation: A New Industry Takes Flight
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Drone Nation: A New Industry Takes Flight

By 2025 the drone industry will employ 100,000 people and be worth $82 billion globally, according to the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International...

High-Tech Cheaters Pose Test
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High-Tech Cheaters Pose Test

As computer-based testing becomes more common across the country, cheaters and those trying to prevent it are going high-tech.

'hidden' Economy in Silicon Valley Built Without Advanced Degrees
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'hidden' Economy in Silicon Valley Built Without Advanced Degrees

Silicon Valley is world-renowned for the Nobel Prize winners and MacArthur "geniuses" behind theoretical breakthroughs in science, technology, engineering, and...

Data From First Mooc Offers Preliminary Insights Into Online Learning
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Data From First Mooc Offers Preliminary Insights Into Online Learning

Researchers looked for clues about online learning by analyzing the pageviews, clickstreams, and discussion threads of students taking 6.002x, the free online version...

Hacking the Drone War's Secret History
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Hacking the Drone War's Secret History

In 2008 U.S. troops in Iraq discovered that Shi’ite insurgents had figured out how to tap and record video feeds from overhead American drones. Now you too can...

The Body Electric: Researchers Move Closer to Low-Cost, Implantable Electronics
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The Body Electric: Researchers Move Closer to Low-Cost, Implantable Electronics

New technology under development at Ohio State University is paving the way for low-cost electronic devices that work in direct contact with living tissue inside...

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As Data Floods In, Massive Open Online Courses Evolve

In 2012, education startups attracted millions of students—and a surge of interest from universities and the media—by offering massive open online courses, or MOOCs...

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.
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