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Researchers Find Way to Measure Effect of Wi-Fi Attacks
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a way to measure how badly a Wi-Fi network would be disrupted by different kinds of attacks.
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Safeped Helps Cities Fix Dangerous Intersections
TAU researchers have developed SAFEPED, a computer simulation that integrates robotics and statistics on driver and pedestrian behavior to determine the environmental...
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Rice Breakthrough Could Double Wireless Capacity With No New Towers
Rice University researchers have developed technology that could enable wireless phone companies to double their network's throughput without adding new cell towers...
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Data Analytics: Crunching the Future
The technicians at SecureAlert's monitoring center in Salt Lake City sit in front of computer screens filled with multicolored dots. Each dot represents someone...
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In Plane View
An airplane’s digital flight-data recorder, or "black box," holds massive amounts of data, documenting the performance of engines, cockpit controls, hydraulic...
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On Your Mark, Get Set, Hack!
During a "hackathon" last year, GroupMe co-founders Steve Martocci and Jared Hecht built a group text-messaging service in one 24-hour stretch. In August, the...
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Court Case Asks if 'Big Brother' Is Spelled GPS
The precedent is novel. More precisely, the precedent is a novel. In a series of rulings on the use of satellites and cellphones to track criminal suspects, judges...
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Patents, Anyone? Gadget Makers Continue to Square Off in Court
Whatever your stance on the current state of patent law—it's essential to protecting intellectual property, it's detrimental to innovation, or something in between—the...
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Innovation Is Step Toward Digital Graphene Transistors
Purdue University researchers have created a type of graphene inverter, a key building block of digital transistors.
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Quantum Computing With Light
Researchers at MIT and Harvard University have conducted an experiment that enables a single photon to control the quantum state of another photon, a development...
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Linux Foundation Chief Talks About Torvalds' Leadership, Html5 and Mobile's Future
Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin says in an interview that the desktop platform's relevance is diminishing as technologies such as smartphones, connected...
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New Technologies to Lighten the Web's Energy Load
An international research team has developed a chip that promises to reduce the carbon footprint of the Internet's core telecommunications and computing technology...
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Understanding and Improving Crowdsourcing Models
A network of researchers are attempting to create more efficient and useful crowdsourcing models that could be used to predict everything from terrorist attacks...
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Can Brain Research Keep S Safe?
Human conflict is often associated with the emergence of a new science or technology. The Civil War's Gatling gun changed battlefield tactics and led to modern...
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New Emotion Detector Sees When We're Lying
A sophisticated new camera system can detect lies just by watching our faces as we talk, experts say. The computerized system uses a simple video camera, a high...
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Bike Crash Wiped Details; Gps Data Filled Them In
After racing and biking back roads on the San Francisco Peninsula for almost half a century without serious incident, on July 3 I crashed while riding downhill...
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Parallel Programming Skills Crisis Could Stall Server Evolution
The lack of parallel programming expertise worldwide will become a major issue for the IT industry over the next 10 years, warns a RMIT University report.
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Application Development Boosts It Job Market: Dice Report
The number of available technology jobs as of Sept. 1 stood at 82,836, with 50,659 full-time positions, 35,378 contract positions, and 1,565 part-time positions...
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Ibm's Futuristic Storage Aims For Speed, Density
IBM is developing super-fast, super-dense storage media that could be available within 10 years.
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