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Israel Launches Cyber Warfare Training Program
Israel is recruiting top students for a new cyberwarfare training program. The program shows how Israel is advancing in the field of cybernetics to develop "high...
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Robotic 'pack Mule' Would Relieve Equipment Burden For Soldier in the Field
DARPA researchers are developing the Legged Squad Support System, a robotic system designed to carry 400 pounds of equipment, walk 20 miles at a time, and serve...
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Visionary Images: The Lost Fractals of Benoît Mandelbrot
Many people know Benoît Mandelbrot from the computer screensavers of a pre-LCD era. Others have a deeper understanding of his mathematics, the repeating geometries...
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Supercomputers From IBM sed to Improve Jobs in Nevada
The Desert Research Institute is teaming up with IBM to help improve Nevada's economy. "This is a transformative step because we're partners with IBM to build...
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Five Linux Predictions For 2013
Continued improvements to Linux in 2013 should lead to new applications for the open source operating system. The trend of smaller and less expensive computers...
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Pentagon Looks to Fix 'pervasive Vulnerability' in Drones
The U.S.'s fleet of robotic drone aircraft has a "pervasive vulnerability" because their control algorithms are written in a fundamentally insecure manner, according...
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Outmaneuvered at Their Own Game, Antivirus Makers Struggle to Adapt
The antivirus industry has a dirty little secret: its products are often not very good at stopping viruses.
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Agile Developers Needed, Demand Outpaces Supply: Study
The number of advertised agile software development jobs outnumbers active candidates by 4.59 to one, according to a recent Yoh Services study.
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The Life-Saving Real World Results of Intelligent Vehicle Systems
The European field-operational test on active-safety functions in vehicles project recently completed the first-ever pan-European field operational test to assess...
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Marking the Birth of the Modern-Day Internet
A long time ago, my colleagues and I became part of a great adventure, teamed with a small band of scientists and technologists in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Ftc Offers $50,000 Reward to Help Stop Robocalls
Unwanted telemarketing calls, trademarked for interrupting dinners across the nation, have become such a nuisance over the years that the Federal Trade Commission...
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How To Charge Your Laptop
Whether they're in our computers, cell phones, or cars, the only time we think about batteries is when they're almost dead and we need to find some place to charge...
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Privacy by the Numbers: A New Approach to Safeguarding Data
In 1997, when Massachusetts began making health records of state employees available to medical researchers, the government removed patients' names, addresses,...
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Computer Code Frees S to Think in New Ways
Throughout this past year, U.K. Education Secretary Michael Gove was on a campaign to replace the British schools' ICT curriculum with a computer science program...
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Free Search Engine Connects Classrooms With Science and Technology
A mobile version of the Gooru educational search engine, which is funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, is now available. The Gooru Collections iPad app...
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Who Needs Magic Carpet? Tmu Has Virtual Body Chair
Virtual body technology developed at the Tokyo Metropolitan University uses the five senses to recreate experiences such as feeling the wind, stepping on the ground...
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Scientists Construct First Map of How the Brain Organizes Everything We See
Our eyes may be our window to the world, but how do we make sense of the thousands of images that flood our retinas each day?
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niversity Wins Record $1.17 Billion Verdict Against Marvell Semiconductor
A Pittsburgh jury found that hard drive control chips made by Marvell Semiconductor infringe two patents owned by Carnegie Mellon University.
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