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Flame One Year Later
It's been a year since the first reports of the Flame malware surfaced, and looking back at the 12 months since then, it seems more and more each day that the discovery...
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Rutgers Computer Scientists Receive Google Grant to Develop Personalized Data Search System
A Google grant will help two scientists develop a system for searching all one's personal data sources at the same time.
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Opening Doors to Foldable Electronics With Inkjet-Printed Graphene
Researchers have used a highly conductive, bendable graphene-based ink to inkjet-print graphene patterns that could be used as conductive electrodes.
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Google Preps Dart 1.0 to Challenge Javascript
Google is preparing to formally release Dart language version 1.0, as well as the 3.0 version of Google Web Toolkit.
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Inside Google's Secret Lab
Last February, Astro Teller, the director of Google's secretive research lab, Google X, went to seek approval from Chief Executive Officer Larry Page for an unlikely...
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Exascale Computing Needs More Funding, Say Federal Computer Scientists
The U.S. Department of Energy's supercomputer efforts need at least another $400 million annually to possibly build an exascale computer by 2020.
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AI Gets Involved With the Law
The application of artificial intelligence to the law aims to let automated systems handle arguments in which the logic is not clear.
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German Railways to Test Anti-Graffiti Drones
The idea is to use airborne infra-red cameras to collect evidence, which could then be used to prosecute vandals who deface property at night.
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Century-Old Science Helps Confirm Global Warming
A new NASA and university analysis of ocean data collected more than 135 years ago by the crew of the HMS Challenger oceanographic expedition provides further confirmation...
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Quantum Or Not, New Supercomputer Is Certainly Something Else
It's exactly the sort of futuristic thinking you'd expect from Google and NASA: Late last week, the organizations announced a partnership to build a Quantum Artificial...
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How Evolution May Help Build Better Robots
In the real world, animals have evolved the ability to get from point A to B by galloping, crawling, and jumping. Now, robots in the virtual world have accomplished...
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Building Supercomputers with Raspberries
At some point in the not-too-distant future, building powerful, miniature computing systems will be considered a hobby for high schoolers, just as robotics or even...
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Ibm's Watson Tries to Learn...everything
IBM has given Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute an open-ended three-year charter to improve the intelligence of IBM's Watson software.
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Rice Unveils Method For Tailoring Optical Processors
Rice University researchers have developed a method for arranging metal nanoparticles in geometric patterns that can act as optical processors.
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Cracking the 1,000-Core Processor Power Challenge
Researchers are working on solutions to growing power consumption, as mainstream processors are expected to contain hundreds of cores in the near future.
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Hackers Find China Is Land of Opportunity
Hacking is openly discussed and promoted in China.
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Google nveils Tornado Crisis-Response Map Effort For Moore, Ok
Google's Crisis Response unit created a crisis map Web page to assist the community of Moore, OK, in its cleanup and recovery.
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Marketing to the Big Data Inside S
Companies market to you according to your shopping habits, your age, your salary, and your social-media activities. In the future, they may be able to advertise...
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