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The Search For Analysts to Make Sense of 'big Data'
Businesses keep vast troves of data about things like online shopping behavior, or millions of changes in weather patterns, or trillions of financial transactions—information...
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Following Digital Breadcrumbs to 'big Data' Gold
What do Facebook, Groupon, and biotech firm Human Genome Sciences have in common? They all rely on massive amounts of data to design their products. Terabytes...
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Dna Sequencing Caught in Deluge of Data
BGI, based in China, is the world’s largest genomics research institute, with 167 DNA sequencers producing the equivalent of 2,000 human genomes a day.
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Cyber Security Must Focus on Users, Not Just Attackers
Cybersecurity measures must aim at users, not just attackers, according to researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park's Maryland Cybersecurity Center...
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Video Search Solves the News Segmentation Problem
Computer scientists at Paris-based search engine company Exalead have developed Voxalead, a video search service that automatically divides news broadcasts into...
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Free Software Activists to Take on Google With New Free Search Engine
The organizers of the YaCy free software project hope to one day replace centrally run search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Bing.
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A High-Tech Pioneer Reflects on the Digital Revolution
In an interview, Frederico Faggin, who led the design and development of the first microprocessor in 1970, says he sees a future in which quantum and cognitive...
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Comedy of Errors Led to False 'water-Pump Hack' Report
It was the broken water pump heard 'round the world. Cyberwar watchers took notice this month when a leaked intelligence memo claimed Russian hackers had remotely...
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Photoshopped or Not? A Tool to Tell
The photographs of celebrities and models in fashion advertisements and magazines are routinely buffed with a helping of digital polish.
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Soft Robots Inspired By Nature Could Become Our Flexible Friends
Robbie the Robot in the 1950s movie Forbidden Planet may have been endearing in a clunky, metallic way, but negotiating tricky terrain was never his strong point...
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Researchers Reduce Smart Phones Power Consumption By More Than 70 Percent
Aalto University researchers have developed new ways to significantly reduce power consumption for smartphones, particularly in locations that do not have reliable...
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Drone Pilots: The Future of Aerial Warfare
To understand how important remotely piloted aircraft are to the U.S. military, consider this: The U.S. Air Force says this year it will train more drone pilots...
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Robots in Reality
Consider the following scenario: A scout surveys a high-rise building that's been crippled by an earthquake, trapping workers inside. After looking for a point...
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Web Crawler Takes Aim at Child Exploitation
Simon Fraser University researchers have developed a Web crawling tool for tracking Web sites that exploit children, which could aid police in their investigations...
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Five Reasons the .s. Tech Lead Is in Danger
The United States is falling behind other countries in the race to build the next generation of supercomputers.
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It's a Drone's World. We Just Live in It
Drones have had a profound effect on the way America fights its wars, allowing it to fight in new theaters while minimizing the risk to troops.
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Making Collective Wisdom Wiser
Tel Aviv University researchers have developed database technology that can automatically evaluate information submitted by the crowd.
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Linking Supercomputers to Simulate the Sun, the Climate and the Human Body
The European Union funded research that developed a European infrastructure for supercomputing, enabling researchers to simulate the fusion of the sun, create new...
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11 Programming Trends to Watch
Eleven recent trends demonstrate how the programming industry is changing, with many new Java virtual machine-dependent languages are being developed, such as JRuby...
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