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Google Wants to Replace Your Passwords With a Ring
Google has developed rings designed to be worn on the finger that provide security for logging into a computer or an online account.
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Studies Expose Gender Bias in Tech Job Listings
A series of studies has found a subtle gender bias in the way companies word job listings in fields such as engineering and programming.
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Steganography Is No Laughing Matter
A computer scientist has developed an approach to steganography that uses jokes to make hidden messages less obvious.
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Researchers Find 25 Countries Using Surveillance Software
As many as 25 governments, some with controversial human rights records, appear to engage in surveillance of citizens using off-the-shelf software.
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Physicists Say They Have Found a Higgs Boson
It helps solve one of the most fundamental riddles of the universe: how the Big Bang created something out of nothing 13.7 billion years ago.
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10 Extraordinary Pentagon Mind Experiments
It’s been 30 years since the first message was sent over initial nodes of the Arpanet, the Pentagon-sponsored precursor to the internet. But this month, researchers...
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Cryptographers Demonstrate New Crack For Common Web Encryption
It's long been known that one of the oldest and most widely used standards for encrypting Web sites has some serious weaknesses. But one group of researchers has...
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Quantum Computing Moves Forward
Technologies under development aim to exploit quantum behavior for computing and other applications.
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U.s. Security Chief Warns of Rising Cyber Threats
Cyberattacks represent the greatest threat to U.S. security, according to a new report by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
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ltra-High-Speed Optical Communications Link Sets New Power Efficiency Record
IBM researchers have found a way to move large amounts of data within supercomputers while limiting power consumption.
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The Future of Ion Traps
Researchers say ion-trap technology could be a scalable option for quantum information processing.
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Peter G. Neumann: Top Cop on the Hair-Raising Cybersecurity Beat
The threat is always there—in your car, at the office, on the table next to where you sleep at night: a near-biblical plague of worms, phisher kings, identity thieves...
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Foreign Students Now a Majority in .s. Computer Science Grad Schools
Foreign students represent the majority of students in U.S. computer science department graduate programs.
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Pentagon Creating Teams to Launch Cyberattacks as Threat Grows
The Pentagon's Cyber Command will create 13 offensive teams by the fall of 2015 to help defend the nation against major computer attacks from abroad, Gen. Keith...
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Google Concedes That Drive-By Prying Violated Privacy
Google on Tuesday acknowledged to state officials that it had violated people's privacy during its Street View mapping project when it casually scooped up passwords...
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Controversial Quantum Computer Aces Entanglement Tests
A few days ago, I held a quantum computer in my hand—or did I?
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Nasa Explores Network to Sustain Large Data Dumps, Space Travel
NASA is studying what technology will be needed after 2022 in order to support future space communication and navigation.
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Microsoft nveils Self-Sketching Whiteboard Prototype
Microsoft researchers are developing a whiteboard that can interpret users' sketches to complete the diagrams they are drawing.
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