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Luring Young Web Warriors Is a .S. Priority. It’s Also a Game.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano says her department is in dire need of computer hackers.
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AI Programmers Struggle to Make Games 'imitate Life'
Artificial intelligence in videogames should improve to incorporate more intelligent characters into games.
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Turing's 'universal Machine' Voted Top British Innovation
Alan Turing's Universal Machine has been voted the top British innovation of the past 100 years.
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The Cloud Within S
A new cloud architecture provides all necessary infrastructure, platform, and software services in the cloud through the cooperation of peers within the system. ...
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Employers Struggle to Fill Computer Security Jobs
Corporations and government agencies are scrambling to find new ways to attract people to jobs in information security, thanks to a growing gap between the demand...
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Ap Wins Big: Why a Court Said Clipping Content Is Not Fair se
A federal court has sided with the Associated Press and the New York Times in a closely watched case involving a company that scraped news content from the Internet...
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At 17, App Builder Rockets to Riches From Yahoo Deal
Seventeen-year-old Nick D'Aloisio is taking some time off from school in London, where he lives with his parents. He will let mom and dad help manage his money.
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Pentagon's Mad Scientists Want a Tattoo That Tracks Troops' Vitals
In its ongoing quest to measure every aspect of U.S. troops' physiology, the Pentagon's esoteric research enclave wants to develop a durable, unobtrusive device...
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Printable Robots Designed to Be Consumer-Friendly, Inexpensive
A new project to automate the design and manufacturing of consumer robots uses two-dimensional desktop technology fabrication methods.
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Berkeley Lab Researchers Use Metamaterials to Observe Giant Photonic Spin Hall Effect
A newly developed two-dimensional sheet of gold nanoantennas has recorded the strongest signal yet of the photonic spin Hall effect.
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Robot-Delivered Speech and Physical Therapy a Success in Umass Amherst Test
A humanoid robot used to deliver speech and physical therapy to a stroke patient has resulted in noticeable improvement in quality of life.
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European Computing Network of Excellence Sets Course For the Future
The HiPEAC European Network of Excellence recently released its latest computer systems roadmap.
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Swiss Supercomputer Aims to Predict Mountain Weather With Help of Gpus
The Swiss National Supercomputing Center will upgrade its supercomputer to more accurately predict the weather in the mountains of the Swiss Alps.
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It's Like They’re Reading My Mind
Whether it's our location, contact lists, calendars, photo albums, or search requests, app developers, advertising companies, and other tech firms are scrambling...
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Carnegie Mellon, Nsa Seek High School Hackers
Bored with classes? Carnegie Mellon University and one of the government's top spy agencies want to interest high school students in a game of computer hacking.
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Hong Kong Looks to Build nderground Datacentre Caves
With more than seven million people squeezed in to around 1,100sq km of land space, and property prices regularly ranking among the highest in the world, Hong Kong...
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U.s. Cybersecurity Policy Draws Interest from Companies, Lobbyists
The determination by Congress and President Obama to protect networks of critical U.S. industries from hackers and cyberspies is creating an explosive growth opportunity—for...
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From Complex Living Systems to Smarter Computers
The European Commission is funding a project to study complex living systems and apply its findings to technological systems, particularly robot swarms.
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How to Find the Right Twitter User in a Crisis
Researchers have developed a way to find people on Twitter who are tweeting useful information during a crisis.
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