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Big Data at Your Service
The growing use of information and communication technology is generating vast volumes of structured and unstructured data that present an opportunity that European...
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Strong and Fast Markets, but No Time to Think
Financial markets have greatly improved over the past quarter-century.
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Newest Nasa Mars Mission Connects Past and Future
NASA's newest Mars mission, landing in two days, will draw on support from missions sent to Mars years ago and will contribute to missions envisioned for future...
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How Fbi Technology Woes Let Fort Hood Shooter Slip By
On November 5, 2009, an Army psychiatrist stationed at Fort Hood, Texas shot and killed 12 fellow soldiers and a civilian Defense Department employee while wounding...
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Icann Backflips on Batching For New Tlds
ICANN recently announced that it will no longer attempt to batch new generic top-level domains in groups of 500.
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Public Can Explore Time-Lapse Videos of Earth With New Tool From Carnegie Mellon and Google
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the U.S. Geological Survey have developed a tool for Google's Earth Engine that enables users to access 13 years of...
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A Computer Infection That Can Never Be Cured
French hacker Jonathan Brossard recently developed Rakshasa, software that can be hidden inside the hardware of a PC, creating a backdoor that would allow secret...
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A Workshop on Next-Generational Financial Cyberinfrastructure
The Next-Generation Financial Cyberinfrastructure Workshop drew participants from academia, industry, and government to consider the need for a new financial cyberinfrastructure...
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Is There a Virtual Mars in Our Future?
Imagine a day when virtual reality gets so good that you could take a computer-generated walk on the Martian surface, right here on Earth.
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A New High Performance and Fault-Tolerant Datacenter Network For Modular Datacenters Was Proposed
Scientists from China's National University of Defense Technology propose a hybrid intra-container network for a modular data center called SCautz, along with an...
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U.s. Sports Fans Using Proxy Servers to Watch Olympics on Bbc
The American network NBC has come in for a lot of flak since the weekend when its Olympics coverage began. The Twitter hadtag of #NBCfail began trending soon after...
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Upgrading the Internet for the Mobile age
Princeton University researchers have developed Serval, a system that makes small changes to the way programs download and manage data, which they say could greatly...
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Computers Can Predict Effects of HIV Policies
Brown University researchers have developed software that can model the spread of HIV in New York City over several years to make specific predictions about the...
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Inside the Quest to Put the World's Libraries Online
Making a vast, open, distributed network of books, records, and images available to anyone with an Internet link is the goal of the Digital Public Library of America...
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Honeybot Project Helps Researchers Wipeout Facebook and Twitter Botnets
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Washington have developed Sodexo, an automated "honeybot" system that protects against...
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Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion Neurons
For all their progress, computers are still pretty unimpressive.
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Nsa Boss Wants More Control Over the 'net
The U.S. Internet's infrastructure needs to be redesigned to allow the NSA to know instantly when overseas hackers might be attacking public or private infrastructure...
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Talk to Me, One Machine Said to the Other
Ocado, an online grocery store in England, prides itself on its delivery of refrigerated foods: When the company says the goods will arrive at a certain temperature...
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Declarations of Cyberwar
Debate continues to be focused on how cyberattacks relate to war and foreign policy and what the international community's appropriate response to such incidents...
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