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Java Compiler Would Enable High-Quality Code, Efficient Memory se
Representatives from Oracle and other participants in the OpenJDK discussion group are advocating for the Graal project, an effort to implement a dynamic compiler...
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New System Allows Robots to Continuously Map Their Environment
MIT researchers have developed a system that enables robots to create and continuously update a three-dimensional map of their environment using a low-cost camera...
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Infrared and 3D Vision Systems Combine to Help Pilots Avoid Crash Landings
When large airliners approach an airport for a landing, a combination of radio signals and high-intensity lighting shows the pilot exactly where the runway is,...
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Social Apps 'harvest Smartphone Contacts'
Twitter has admitted copying entire address books from smartphones and storing the data on its servers, often without customers' knowledge.
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What Dropbox Can Teach S About Cloud Computing
Dropbox is the most deceptively simple of services.
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Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery
When Kenneth G. Lieberthal, a China expert at the Brookings Institution, travels to that country, he follows a routine that seems straight from a spy film.
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The Other Academic Freedom Movement
In the summer of 1991, Paul Ginsparg, a researcher at the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory, set up an email system for about 200 string theorists to exchange papers...
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Protests Erupt Across Europe Against Web Piracy Treaty
More than 25,000 demonstrators recently took part in protests across Europe against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a controversial international anti-piracy...
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The Joy of Checks
Researchers at Newcastle, York, and Northumbria universities have developed a way of making quick and easy electronic transfers while retaining the paper check...
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Researchers Crack Online Encryption System
An online encryption technique widely used to safeguard email, e-commerce, and other sensitive Internet transactions is crackable, according to a study by U.S....
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Syrian Opposition Seeks to Wipe the Assad Name Off the Map--Via Google
Syrian activists are using Google's Map Maker crowdsourcing software to oppose the Assad regime by renaming streets and landmarks after their revolutionary idols...
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Computer Programs That Think Like Humans
University of Gothenburg researchers have developed software that can score 150 on a standard IQ test.
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The Age of Big Data
Good with numbers? Fascinated by data? The sound you hear is opportunity knocking.
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How Networks of Biological Cells Solve Distributed Computing Problems
Distributed computing is all the rage these days. The idea is to break down computational tasks into convenient chunks and distribute them across a network to a...
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Official Underlines Iran's Capability to Counter Cyber Attacks Against N. Facilities
Head of Iran's civil defense organization General Gholam Reza Jalali stressed that the Iranian experts and engineers are capable of countering the enemies' cyber...
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Linux Job Openings on the Rise: Dice Report
Dice reports that although Linux skills are in demand, finding talent is difficult for many organizations, which has boosted salaries and bonuses for Linux professionals...
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Chemist Applies Google Software to Molecular World
Washington State University researchers have adapted Google's PageRank software to create moleculaRnetworks, a program that enables scientists to virtually study...
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pgrading the Hurricane Forecast
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have developed a hurricane forecasting system that improves...
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Darpa Dodges Obama Budget Death Ray, Keeps Its $2.8 Billion
For most of the U.S. military's far-flung community of scientists and engineers, Monday was a day to pop a Xanax.
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