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Colin Powell's E-Mail Tips: ­se Private Phone Line, Personal Aol Account… and Keep Mouth Shut
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Colin Powell's E-Mail Tips: ­se Private Phone Line, Personal Aol Account… and Keep Mouth Shut

In an e-mail exchange with then-incoming Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State Colin Powell warned that the State Department Diplomatic...

Exascale Computing Project Announces $39.8 Million in Funding
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Exascale Computing Project Announces $39.8 Million in Funding

The U.S. Department of Energy's Exascale Computing Project announced $39.8 million in full funding for 15 application development proposals and seed funding for...

Cyber Skills in High Demand Well Into the Future
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Cyber Skills in High Demand Well Into the Future

The cybersecurity job market is wide open — if you have the skills. If you don't, there are plenty of opportunities to get up to speed and perhaps boost future...

How Apple Helped Create Ireland's Economies, Real and Fantastical
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How Apple Helped Create Ireland's Economies, Real and Fantastical

There are two equally valid, yet seemingly incompatible, ways of viewing Apple Computer's relationship with Ireland.

Does the Messaging Service Telegram Take Privacy Too Far?
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Does the Messaging Service Telegram Take Privacy Too Far?

The encryption of digital information is considered the best protection against hackers, snoops or potential enemies looking to poke around into private exchanges...

The Fbi's Latest Mission: Be Cool Enough to Recruit Hackers
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The Fbi's Latest Mission: Be Cool Enough to Recruit Hackers

The FBI has struggled for years to attract enough fresh hacker talent to defend America's computers.

How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a Smartphone
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How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a Smartphone

Want to invisibly spy on 10 iPhone owners without their knowledge? Gather their every keystroke, sound, message and location?

Lincoln Laboratory Lends a 3-D-Printed Hand
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Lincoln Laboratory Lends a 3-D-Printed Hand

Researchers improve the designs for low-cost 3-D-printed arms and hands.

This Is Your Company on Blockchain
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This Is Your Company on Blockchain

You don't have to be an expert on digital currencies like bitcoin to be intrigued by the potential of the technology underlying them. Blockchain, as it’s called...

Computers on the Reef
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Computers on the Reef

Blue spires seem to pop out of the photograph in one place; a patch of bushy forms of pinkish-purple in another.

Three Grand Challenges For Brain Science That Can Be Solved in 10 Years
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Three Grand Challenges For Brain Science That Can Be Solved in 10 Years

One of the great scientific challenges is to understand the human brain.

Chicago Becomes First City to Launch Array of Things
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Chicago Becomes First City to Launch Array of Things

Chicago this week is installing the first of an eventual 500 nodes for the Array of Things, a "fitness tracker" that will collect data on the city's environment...

Can You Hear Me Now? Spotty Reception in the Heart of Silicon Valley
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Can You Hear Me Now? Spotty Reception in the Heart of Silicon Valley

My phone connection kept dropping out, which didn’t make sense because I was in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Pay Attention! Tesla's Autopilot Will Lock Out Lackadaisical Drivers
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Pay Attention! Tesla's Autopilot Will Lock Out Lackadaisical Drivers

Driver-assist functions are coming quickly these days.

Majority of Mathematicians Hail from Just 24 Scientific 'families'
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Majority of Mathematicians Hail from Just 24 Scientific 'families'

Most of the world's mathematicians fall into just 24 scientific 'families', one of which dates back to the fifteenth century.

The Hype, and Hope, of Artificial Intelligence
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The Hype, and Hope, of Artificial Intelligence

Earlier this month, on his HBO show "Last Week Tonight," John Oliver skewered media companies' desperate search for clicks.

Bounty Hunters Are Legally Hacking Apple and the Pentagon–for Big Money
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Bounty Hunters Are Legally Hacking Apple and the Pentagon–for Big Money

Nathaniel Wakelam became a bounty hunter when he was 18.

China's $100 Billion Chip Supremacy Bid Unrealistic: Bain
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China's $100 Billion Chip Supremacy Bid Unrealistic: Bain

China faces an uphill battle in its push to become the global leader in computer chips because of a lack of technological know-how and talent, according to an analysis...

Happy 25th Birthday to the World Wide Web
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Happy 25th Birthday to the World Wide Web

Internauts, today we celebrate this glorious technology that brings us all together! On August 23, 1991--25 years ago today--the public gained access for the first...

Obama's Science Legacy: Betting Big on Biomedical Science
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Obama's Science Legacy: Betting Big on Biomedical Science

When president-elect Barack Obama chose physicist John Holdren as his top science adviser in December 2008, some biomedical researchers worried that the pick signalled...
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