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Amateur Effort Finds New Largest Prime Number
The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project has scored its 14th consecutive victory, discovering the largest prime number so far.
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Researchers Push the Boundaries of Virtual Reality
University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) researchers have developed virtual reality technology that creates an environment that interacts with users' sense ofView...
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sing Twitter to Predict the Influence of Lifestyle on Health
University of Rochester researchers have used Twitter to model how factors such as social status, exposure to pollution, and interpersonal interaction can influence...
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Which iPhone App May Get You Into Stanford? The One You Make
Standing out from the crowd of applicants vying to get into Stanford University's Computer Science undergraduate program is no easy task.
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Invisible Fences
When European farmers arrived in North America, they claimed it with fences.
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A Tiny Computer Attracts a Million Tinkerers
Raspberry Pi may sound like the name of a math-based dessert. But it is actually one of the hottest and cheapest little computers in the world right now.
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nseen, All-Out Cyber War on the .s. Has Begun
There's a war going on, and it's raging here at home—not in the streets or the fields, but on the Internet.
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These Machines Will Be Able to Detect Smells Your Own Nose Cannot
Admittedly, it's a little hard to imagine smell scientists, but research published last week has those who study the sense of smell taking sides.
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Smartphone Sensors Reveal Security Secrets
Data captured by smartphone sensors could help criminals guess codes used to lock the gadgets, say security researchers.
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How to Build a Nanotube Computer
IBM researchers have assembled 10,000 carbon nanotube transistors on a silicon chip, which they say is a breakthrough that could lead to a new way of producingView...
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Force-Feedback For Smartphones Tilts Game-Playing Field
Researchers in Germany are working on force-feedback technology with gamers in mind. Called muscle propelled force feedback, the system does not have any motors...
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Doctoral Student Designs Microphones That Monitor Road Traffic
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne doctoral student Patrick Marmaroli has created an automatic road traffic sensor based on dual microphones that pick upView...
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MIT Researchers Improve Quantum-Dot Performance
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a process that produces quantum dots that are uniform in size and shape, give off brightView...
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Security Protocol For Online Banking, Facebook Has 'serious Weaknesses'
Royal Holloway, University of LondonA man-in-the-middle attack against the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol can be used to intercept sensitive personal data...
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Phreaks and Geeks
One of the most heartfelt—and unexpected—remembrances of Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide last month at the age of 26, came from Yale professor Edward Tufte.
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Broad Powers Seen For Obama in Cyberstrikes
A secret legal review on the use of America's growing arsenal of cyberweapons has concluded that President Obama has the broad power to order a pre-emptive strike...
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Mind-Meld Brain Power Is Best For Steering Spaceships
University of Essex researchers have developed a simulator in which pairs of brain-computer interface (BCI) users had to steer a craft toward the exact center of...
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Intel, niversities Are Working on Transformable Cpus
Processors that change configuration depending on workload to greatly increase central-processing unit (CPU) performance and energy efficiency are the focus ofView...
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A System That Uses Video Surveillance Cameras to Alert Security Agents of Dangerous Situations
Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M) researchers have developed an intelligent system that analyzes video surveillance camera images in real time, detects abnormal...
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