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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.

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.
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