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Ibm's New Future: Quantum Computing
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Ibm's New Future: Quantum Computing

Over the next 20 years, the potential of quantum computing could lead to a development boom in chip and hardware design similar to what Silicon Valley experienced...

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All Your Bitcoins Are Ours

Malware authors move fast. Following on from the previous blog post on Bitcoin botnet mining, we have seen a recent Trojan in the wild targeting Bitcoin wallets...

New Software Improves the Maintenance and Management of Forests
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New Software Improves the Maintenance and Management of Forests

Forests could receive better maintenance and management using new software developed by a team at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. The software is designed...

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Nanomagnetic Computers Are the ­ltimate in Efficiency

Nanomagnetic computers would break the second law of thermodynamics if they used any less energy, according to new calculations from a team led by the University...

Computer Security: Is This the Start of Cyberwarfare?
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Computer Security: Is This the Start of Cyberwarfare?

The emergence of the Stuxnet worm signals that groups or nations could launch a cyberattack that targets critical infrastructure and threatens to cause physical...

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Can Wireless Networks Support the Promise of the 'cloud'?

Google, Apple, and Amazon are pushing more and more of your entertainment, your data—heck, your life—into the cloud. But what's it mean for the wireless network...

Nasa Spacecraft Confirms Theories, Sees Surprises at Mercury
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Nasa Spacecraft Confirms Theories, Sees Surprises at Mercury

NASA scientists are making new discoveries about the planet Mercury. Data from MESSENGER, the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, is giving scientists important...

Protecting Medical Implants from Attack
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Protecting Medical Implants from Attack

Millions of Americans have implantable medical devices, from pacemakers and defibrillators to brain stimulators and drug pumps; worldwide, 300,000 more people...

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Government in Cyber Fight but Can't Keep Up

The Pentagon is about to roll out an expanded effort to safeguard its contractors from hackers and is building a virtual firing range in cyberspace to test new...

Nanomagnetic Computers Are the ­ltimate in Efficiency
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Nanomagnetic Computers Are the ­ltimate in Efficiency

Computers that run on chips made from tiny magnets may be as energy-efficient as physics permits.

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Google Voice Search Offers Natural User Input

Google Voice Search for desktop computers isn't much more than the company porting a technology that's been on mobile phones for a while to PCs. But don't write...

Java Standards Process to Get an Upgrade
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Java Standards Process to Get an Upgrade

The Java Community Process (JCP) is poised for an upgrade designed to instill greater transparency, while JCP members who ignore their duties may be stripped of...

'smart Cars' That Are Actually, Well, Smart
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'smart Cars' That Are Actually, Well, Smart

MIT researchers are developing an intelligent transportation system algorithm that factors in models of human driving behavior to warn drivers of potential collisions...

Kissinger, Huntsman: ­.s., China Need Cyber Detente
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Kissinger, Huntsman: ­.s., China Need Cyber Detente

The United States and China need to forge an agreement restricting cyberattacks and designating some areas as out of bounds to hacking, say former U.S. Secretary...

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Protein Folding Made Easy

A McGill University researcher and Massachusetts Institute of Technology collaborators have achieved impressive results with an algorithm for predicting protein...

IBM at 100: From Typewriters to the Cloud
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IBM at 100: From Typewriters to the Cloud

Say IBM—and you probably still think of computers. But today, the firm that was once all about hardware, makes its living from more intangible technology.

F.b.i. Agents Get Leeway to Push Privacy Bounds
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F.b.i. Agents Get Leeway to Push Privacy Bounds

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household...

Bitcoin: The Hacker Currency That's Taking Over the Web
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Bitcoin: The Hacker Currency That's Taking Over the Web

Global, private and untraceable, it's the monetary system of choice for libertarians, geeks, businesspeople, and, apparently, drug kingpins.

Digging Into Data, Day 2: Making Tools and ­sing Them
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Digging Into Data, Day 2: Making Tools and ­sing Them

The creativity exhibited by scholars in the integration of big data and digital tools was highlighted in eight digital humanities research projects that won the...

Ornl Package Tracking System Takes Social Media to New Heights
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Ornl Package Tracking System Takes Social Media to New Heights

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed Tracking 2.0, supply chain software that provides a start-to-finish view as an item moves to its destination...
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