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Researchers Use Flexible Channel Width to Improve User Experience on Wireless Systems
A new technique developed by researchers at North Carolina State University improves the performance of multi-hop wireless networks.
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System Improves Automated Monitoring of Security Cameras
MIT researchers have developed a system that can analyze several surveillance cameras more accurately and in less time than it would take a human operator.
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Prophets of Zoom
Deep-zooming software, known as zoomable user interfaces, enable information such as text, images, and video to sit on a single, limitless surface that can be viewed...
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Is It Possible to Wage a Just Cyberwar?
In the last week or so, cyberwarfare has made front-page news: the United States may have been behind the Stuxnet cyberattack on Iran; Iran may have suffered another...
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Stuxnet Expert Calls .s. the 'good Guys' in Cyber-Warfare
Sitting in the front row for the first full day of the International Conference on Cyber Conflict was one of the industry’s foremost "rock star" researchers, ...
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Nations Must Talk to Halt 'cyber Terrorism': Kaspersky
Eugene Kaspersky, whose lab discovered the Flame virus that has attacked computers in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East, said on Wednesday only a global effort...
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Cyberthreats Turn Into Megabucks
As Congress boosts spending on cybersecurity and mulls over new data safety requirements on private industry, some companies stand to get rich.
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Cyber-Attack Concerns Raised Over Boeing 787 Chip's 'back Door'
Two Cambridge experts have discovered a "back door" in a computer chip used in military systems and aircraft, such as the Boeing 787, that could allow the chip...
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Virtual Patient Under the Knife on Hi-Tech Operating Table
At St Mary's Hospital in London, surgeon Aimee Di Marco is about to cut up a body.
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Social Network Data Reveals Non-Members' Secrets
People who avoid social networking sites to maintain their privacy may not be as secure as they think, German computer scientists say.
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Training Cells to Perform Boolean Functions? It's Logical
Johns Hopkins University researchers have engineered cells that behave like AND and OR Boolean logic gates, producing an output based on one or more unique inputs...
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Uh Students Develop Prototype Device that Translates Sign Language
University of Houston researchers have developed the concept and prototype for MyVoice, a device that reads sign language and translates its motions into audible...
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Psc Provides Direct Link From Galaxy to the Xsede Backbone
Three Rivers Optical Exchange has established a high-bandwidth link from a Penn State bioinformatics program to the network backbone of the U.S. National Science...
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Idf Admits to Using Cyber Space to Attack Enemies
The IDF uses cyber space to gather intelligence, attack enemies, and conduct various military operations, the military revealed on Sunday in a posting on its official...
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Freaks, Geeks, and Microsoft
When the Kinect was introduced in November 2010 as a $150 motion-control add-on to Microsoft's Xbox consoles, it drew attention from more than just video-gamers...
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Could Ears Be the Perfect Biometric?
Ear identification could provide as distinctive a form of identification as fingerprints, says University of Southampton's Mark Nixon.
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Technology to Monitor Bird Sounds, Impacts of Environmental Change
Oregon State University researchers have developed a multi-instance, multi-label machine-learning system to simultaneously listen to multiple bird sounds.
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Finding Good Music in Noisy Online Markets
Columbia University researchers began an online social-media marketing experiment in 2004, creating nine versions of a music download site that presented the same...
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Iran: 'flame' Virus Fight Began with Oil Attack
Computer technicians battling to contain a complex virus last month resorted to the ultimate firewall measures—cutting off Internet links to Iran’s Oil Ministry...
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