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Meeting Cellebrite Israel's Master Phone Crackers
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Meeting Cellebrite Israel's Master Phone Crackers

Cellebrite was in the headlines earlier this year when it was rumoured to have helped the FBI to crack an iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter.

Computer Engineers Boost App Speeds by More Than 9 Percent
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Computer Engineers Boost App Speeds by More Than 9 Percent

Researchers have found a way to boost the speed of computer applications by more than 9 percent with techniques that allow a computer's processor to retrieve data...

Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation
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Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation

SRI International, the Silicon Valley research lab where Apple's virtual assistant Siri was born, is working on a new generation of virtual assistants that respond...

Titanic Clash Over Crispr Patents Turns Ugly
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Titanic Clash Over Crispr Patents Turns Ugly

Geneticist George Church has pioneered methods for sequencing and altering genomes.

A Conscious Coupling of Magnetic and Electric Materials
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A Conscious Coupling of Magnetic and Electric Materials

Scientists have successfully paired ferroelectric and ferrimagnetic materials so that their alignment can be controlled with a small electric field at near room...

Meet Rutgers' Radical Supercomputing Guru
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Meet Rutgers' Radical Supercomputing Guru

Rutgers Professor Shantenu Jha wants to enhance personalized medicine, global health, science, and engineering through high-performance computing.

For the Debaters: What Shall We Do About the Tech Careening Our Way?
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For the Debaters: What Shall We Do About the Tech Careening Our Way?

Here's a question I’m hoping comes up at Monday's presidential debate: Secretary Clinton and Mr. Trump, what would you do about self-driving trucks?

Reconfigurable Chaos-Based Microchips Offer Possible Solution to Moore's Law
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Reconfigurable Chaos-Based Microchips Offer Possible Solution to Moore's Law

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed nonlinear, chaos-based integrated circuits that enable computer chips to perform multiple functions...

Jpl Seeks Robotic Spacecraft Development For Asteroid Redirect Mission
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Jpl Seeks Robotic Spacecraft Development For Asteroid Redirect Mission

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has issued a request for proposal (RFP) seeking design, development and build of the robotic spacecraft...

Big Step For Quantum Teleportation Won't Bring ­S Any Closer to Star Trek. Here's Why
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Big Step For Quantum Teleportation Won't Bring ­S Any Closer to Star Trek. Here's Why

Two teams have set new distance records for quantum teleportation: using the weirdness of quantum mechanics to instantly transfer the condition or "state" of one...

The Bot Economy Is Growing Even Faster Than the App Economy Did
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The Bot Economy Is Growing Even Faster Than the App Economy Did

Move over apps, it's time for the bots to shine.

Self-Organized Circuitry May Form Basis For Multifunction Chips
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Self-Organized Circuitry May Form Basis For Multifunction Chips

An ORNL study found that complex oxide materials can self-organize into electrical circuits, which creates the possibility for new types of computer chips.

Why Scientists Must Share Their Research Code
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Why Scientists Must Share Their Research Code

Many scientists worry over the reproducibility of wet-lab experiments, but data scientist Victoria Stodden's focus is on how to validate computational research:...

Apple Offers Free App to Teach Children Coding (ipads Sold Separately)
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Apple Offers Free App to Teach Children Coding (ipads Sold Separately)

Apple plans to release a free coding education app on Tuesday that it developed with middle-school students in mind, in the latest salvo among technology companies...

America's Secret Cold War Mission to Build the First Chinese Computer
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America's Secret Cold War Mission to Build the First Chinese Computer

It was the summer of 1959, and the United States needed a Cold War win.

Faster Parallel Computing
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Faster Parallel Computing

A new programming language called Milk delivers fourfold speedups on memory access problems common in the age of big data.

Hardware Giants Hope the Past Can Save Their Future
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Hardware Giants Hope the Past Can Save Their Future

HP. Dell. EMC. Intel. The giants of computer hardware aren't what they were ten years ago.

Tuning Materials and Devices to Adapt to Their Environment
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Tuning Materials and Devices to Adapt to Their Environment

Researchers at UCSB are trying to leverage advanced and scalable materials deposition techniques to create tunable, high-frequency integrated circuits and devices...

New Computer Chip Manufacturing Method Squeezes More Onto Limited Wafer Space
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New Computer Chip Manufacturing Method Squeezes More Onto Limited Wafer Space

Computer chip integration is impeded by limits on the size of transistors approaching the atomic scale. Now, a team of engineers has devised a reproducible and...

With the Iphone 7, Apple Changed the Camera Industry Forever
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With the Iphone 7, Apple Changed the Camera Industry Forever

Camera companies, like traditional phone manufacturers, dismissed the iPhone as a toy when it launched, in 2007.
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