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Here Are Eff's Most Influential Cases from Its First 25 Years
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Here Are Eff's Most Influential Cases from Its First 25 Years

On Friday, July 10, the Electronic Frontier Foundation celebrated its 25th anniversary.

Lawrence Livermore Licenses Computer Network Security Tool
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Lawrence Livermore Licenses Computer Network Security Tool

A computer network security tool developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory computer scientists and engineers has been licensed to Cambridge Global Advisors...

U.S. Team Takes First Place at International Mathematical Olympiad
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U.S. Team Takes First Place at International Mathematical Olympiad

A six-person team representing the United States took first place at IMO 2015, the 56th International Mathematical Olympiad, held in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

The Women Who Rule Pluto
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The Women Who Rule Pluto

For all the firsts coming out of the New Horizons mission—color footage of Pluto, photos of all five of its moons, and flowing datastreams about Pluto's composition...

Researcher Devises Method to Untangle, Analyze 'Controlled Chaos'
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Researcher Devises Method to Untangle, Analyze 'Controlled Chaos'

A mathematical framework developed Indiana University researcher Filippo Radicchi could analyze interactions among highly complex systems and help improve their...

Robotics and the Law: When Software Can Harm You
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Robotics and the Law: When Software Can Harm You

It is imperative that the law deal effectively with the rise of robotics and artificial intelligence, says Ryan Calo, assistant professor in the University of Washington...

European Labs Set Sights on Continent-Wide Computing Cloud
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European Labs Set Sights on Continent-Wide Computing Cloud

From astronomy to genomics, scientists are increasingly storing and studying their data sets on shared remote ‘cloud’ computing servers, accessed through the Internet...

China's Tianhe-2 Remains Atop Top500 Supercomputer List
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China's Tianhe-2 Remains Atop Top500 Supercomputer List

For the fifth consecutive time, the Tianhe-2 supercomputer developed by China's National University of Defense Technology, has retained its position as the world's...

Screen Addiction Is Taking a Toll on Children
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Screen Addiction Is Taking a Toll on Children

Excessive use of computer games among young people in China appears to be taking an alarming turn and may have particular relevance for American parents whose children...

Computing at the Speed of Light
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Computing at the Speed of Light

Sergio Cantu, a second-year Ph.D. student at MIT, studies lasers to increase computational speed and security.

Study Highlights Striking Racial and Gender Gaps in High School STEM
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Study Highlights Striking Racial and Gender Gaps in High School STEM

High school boys are more likely to take engineering and technology classes and to consider pursuing postsecondary STEM majors, despite the fact that male and female...

Researchers Develop Basic Computing Elements For Bacteria
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Researchers Develop Basic Computing Elements For Bacteria

Sensors, memory switches, and circuits can be encoded in common human gut bacterium.

Moxie Marlinspike: The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts
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Moxie Marlinspike: The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts

In the past decade, Moxie Marlinspike has squatted on an abandoned island, toured the U.S. by hopping trains, he says, and earned the enmity of government officials...

Toss Your Manual Overboard; Augmented Reality Aims at Big Industry
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Toss Your Manual Overboard; Augmented Reality Aims at Big Industry

For better or for worse, augmented reality (AR) is charging forward in the consumer space—but there's a place for AR in the industrial world as well.

Rowan Vr Center Expands Research, Partnership Opportunities
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Rowan Vr Center Expands Research, Partnership Opportunities

A new Virtual Reality Center at Rowan University provides state-of-the-art research capabilities to Rowan students and professors as well as regional businesses...

The Secret Startup That Saved the Worst Website in America
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The Secret Startup That Saved the Worst Website in America

Loren Yu was on a weekend trip in Los Angeles when he received an urgent email from a friend. The friend, Kalvin Wang, had a proposition.

I Spent Spring Break Teaching Girls to Code
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I Spent Spring Break Teaching Girls to Code

During spring break, I taught thirty girls how to complete projects in game design with Scratch, develop apps with MIT AppInventor, create robotics programs with...

Seven Teams Reach 2016 DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge Finals
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Seven Teams Reach 2016 DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge Finals

Seven teams have earned the right to compete in the finals of DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge, a tournament designed to speed the development of automated security...

The 24/7 Search For Killer Quakes
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The 24/7 Search For Killer Quakes

At 17 minutes past midnight on Saturday 25 April, Rob Sanders's computer started chiming with alerts.

Analyzing Galaxy Images with Ai: Astronomers Teach a Machine How to 'see'
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Analyzing Galaxy Images with Ai: Astronomers Teach a Machine How to 'see'

A team of astronomers and computer scientists at the University of Hertfordshire have taught a machine to analyze galaxy images with artificial intelligence.
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