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New Targets For the Control of Hiv Are Predicted sing a Novel Computational Analysis
Virginia Tech researchers have developed a computational approach that can predict several human proteins that the human immunodeficiency virus requires to replicate...
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Sdsc Announces Scalable, High-Performance Data Storage Cloud
The University of California, San Diego's San Diego Supercomputer Center recently launched an academic-based cloud storage system designed specifically for researchers...
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Inside Facebook's Bid to Reinvent Music, News, and Everything
Earlier this year, Daniel Ek, the CEO of the music service Spotify, was in a car with Mark Zuckerberg. Ek was visiting the Facebook founder in California while...
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Policing the Digital Storage Landscape
Cyberlockers are the next frontier for storing music, movies, and other personal files on the Internet, but the entertainment industry wants lawmakers to ensure...
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Smarter Robot Arms
A combination of two algorithms developed at MIT allows autonomous robots to execute tasks much more efficiently—and move more predictably.
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'stingray' Phone Tracker Fuels Constitutional Clash
For more than a year, federal authorities pursued a man they called simply "the Hacker." Only after using a little known cellphone-tracking device—a stingray—were...
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Scientists se Brain Imaging to Reveal the Movies in Our Mind
Imagine tapping into the mind of a coma patient, or watching one’s own dream on YouTube. With a cutting-edge blend of brain imaging and computer simulation, scientists...
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Will We All Be Tweaking Our Own Genetic Code?
You have to wonder what's going on in the DNA of Harvard genetics professor George Church. What extra bit of code does he have that the rest of us don't? If genes...
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Mining Data For Better Medicine
The antidepressant Paxil was approved for sale in 1992, the cholesterol-lowering drug Pravachol in 1996. Company studies proved that each drug, on its own, works...
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Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets
Traction for the free-network movement is growing as activists, scholars, and entrepreneurs pursue efforts to repurpose existing online networks or create parallel...
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Fraunhofer SCAI Successfully Completes Pilot Project on Information Extraction from Chinese Scientific Literature
The Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing recently completed a pilot Chinese text mining project.
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App Lets niversity Students Send Video Instantly to Police
The University of Maryland at College Park has launched a phased rollout of a smartphone app that can provide students, faculty, and staff with a direct and instantaneous...
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Technically, Science Will Be Less Lonely For Women When Girls Are Spurred Early
Girls are being sent a message at a young age that careers in math and science are marked by social isolation and will make them seem less attractive. However,...
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Will We Ever Learn to Live with Artificial Humans?
How Japan's AKB48 has created a new level of artificial human—and what it tells us about the infamous Uncanny Valley.
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The War on Red-Light Cameras
Late last month, after a drawn-out battle dating back to November, Houston finally turned off its 70 red-light cameras. City residents voted them down in a referendum...
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Call It Your Online Driver's License
The White House's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace encourages the private-sector creation and public adoption of online user authentication...
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Researchers to Detail Hole in Web Encryption
Security researchers Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong will demonstrate an attack that compromises Transport Layer Security 1.0 at the Ekoparty conference in Argentina...
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Intel Runs PC on CPU Powered by Solar Cell
Intel recently demonstrated Claremont, an experimental low-power processor the size of a postage stamp that could run PCs using solar power by dropping energy consumption...
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Information Technologies Can Foster Freedom or Reinforce Repression
New communication tools such as text messaging and social networks my not be as uniformly beneficial or as robust as suggested by the media, which portrays them...
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