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Preparing For Warfare in Cyberspace
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Preparing For Warfare in Cyberspace

The Pentagon’s new 33-page cybersecurity strategy is an important evolution in how America proposes to address a top national security threat. It is intended to...

Clarkson Adds Master's in Data Analytics
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Clarkson Adds Master's in Data Analytics

Clarkson University will offer a new master of science degree in the field of data analytics, beginning this fall. The new graduate degree has been approved by...

Advancing Security and Trust in Reconfigurable Devices
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Advancing Security and Trust in Reconfigurable Devices

A research team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute is studying a range of security challenges involving field programmable gate arrays.

Ethics of Embryo Editing Paper Divides Scientists
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Ethics of Embryo Editing Paper Divides Scientists

In the wake of the first ever report that scientists have edited the genomes of human embryos, experts cannot agree on whether the work was ethical. They also disagree...

MIT Report Details Benefits of Investment in Basic Research
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MIT Report Details Benefits of Investment in Basic Research

A report by a committee of MIT researchers and research administrators examining how funding cutbacks will affect the future of scientific studies in the United...

Passive Cooling System For Processors Could Save U.s. $6.3 Billion a Year
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Passive Cooling System For Processors Could Save U.s. $6.3 Billion a Year

A patented passive cooling system for computer processors developed at The University of Alabama in Huntsville could save U.S. consumers more than $6.3 billion...

In Nato Cyber Wargame, Berlya Fends Off Arch-Enemy Crimsonia
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In Nato Cyber Wargame, Berlya Fends Off Arch-Enemy Crimsonia

Somewhere near Iceland, a new NATO member, Berlya is under cyber-attack, most likely launched from its arch-rival Crimsonia, although the Berlyans can’t be completely...

Just How Hackable Is Your Plane?
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Just How Hackable Is Your Plane?

Chris Roberts knows a lot about hacking planes. But not because he's trying to make them fall out of the sky.

Highly Conductive Germanium Nanowires Made by a Simple, One-Step Process
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Highly Conductive Germanium Nanowires Made by a Simple, One-Step Process

Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology have deposited germanium nanowires on indium tin oxide substrate using a simple, one-step process...

How a Computer Can Help Your Doctor Better Diagnose Cancer
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How a Computer Can Help Your Doctor Better Diagnose Cancer

A research team has developed a computational model that aims to automatically suggest cancer diagnoses by learning from thousands of data points from past pathology...

Researchers Test Brain Activity to Identify Cybersecurity Threats
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Researchers Test Brain Activity to Identify Cybersecurity Threats

Iowa State University researchers measured brain activity to identify what might motivate an employee to violate company policy and sell or trade sensitive information...

Statcast Arrives, Offering Way to Quantify Nearly Every Move in Game
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Statcast Arrives, Offering Way to Quantify Nearly Every Move in Game

Which outfielders take the most efficient routes to a fly ball? Which pitcher's curveball has the highest spin rate? Which batter has the fastest speed to first...

Cloud Security Reaches Silicon
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Cloud Security Reaches Silicon

MIT researchers have implemented in silicon a system for defending against memory-access attacks.

Homeland Security Is Laying Roots in Silicon Valley, and You Might Not Like Its Reasons
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Homeland Security Is Laying Roots in Silicon Valley, and You Might Not Like Its Reasons

The Department of Homeland Security plans to open an office in California's Silicon Valley to recruit talent from the technology sector and build relationships...

Materials Scientists Put New Spin on Computing Memory
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Materials Scientists Put New Spin on Computing Memory

A group of researchers from Drexel University is trying to make computer memories smaller, denser, and more energy conscious with help from a new class of materials...

Security Professionals Stymied By Outdated Visualization Tools
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Security Professionals Stymied By Outdated Visualization Tools

Earlier this year, the film Blackhat got high marks for realistic scenes in which hackers and information security specialists work at their computers to hunt down...

How Click Farms Have Inflated Social Media Currency
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How Click Farms Have Inflated Social Media Currency

Every Morning, Kim Casipong strolls past barbed wire, six dogs, and a watchman in order to get to her job in a pink apartment building decorated with ornate stonework...

Machine Dreams
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Machine Dreams

There is a shrine inside Hewlett-Packard's headquarters in Palo Alto, in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Iowa State Developing Computer Security Literacy Curriculum
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Iowa State Developing Computer Security Literacy Curriculum

Iowa State University researchers are developing a computer security literacy curriculum designed for middle school and high school students.

Revamped E-Paper Could Make Large Displays Like Whiteboards
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Revamped E-Paper Could Make Large Displays Like Whiteboards

Researchers from the University of Tokyo have revamped an old e-paper concept to make an inexpensive handwriting-enabled e-paper well suited to large displays...
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