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Making Quantum Cryptography Truly Secure
An overlooked loophole in quantum key distribution technology was demonstrated by an eavesdropping method created and operated by researchers at the National University...
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Has Facebook Peaked?
Facebook's active user base grew by only 1.7% in May. That's about half its usual growth rate, and it came after similarly slow growth in April. According to Inside...
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Who Is Behind the Hacks?
Every day there's another report of a computer hack. Yesterday it was a video game company and a U.S. Senate database. And today it could be the Federal Reserve...
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Thieves Found Citigroup Site an Easy Entry
Think of it as a mansion with a high-tech security system—but the front door wasn’t locked tight.
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A Test For Consciousness
How will we know when we've built a sentient computer? By making it solve a simple puzzle.
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.s. Looking For Revolutionary Binary Code System
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is using its Binary Executable Transforms program to developed revolutionary technologies for analyzing...
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Researchers Improve Method For Finding Genetic Mistakes That Fuel Cancer
Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have developed the Clipping Reveals Structure algorithm, which helps identify the chromosomal rearrangements...
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Fire-Breathing Dragon Roars to Life
The first practical technique for recreating the sound of fire, based on its behavior, for virtual worlds has been devised by Jeff Chadwick and colleagues at Cornell...
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A Preview of Future Disk Drives
A new type of data storage technology, called phase-change memory, has proven capable of writing some types of data faster than conventional flash based storage...
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World Ipv6 Day Concludes Without Major Problems
World IPv6 Day has come and gone and — as on January 1, 2000 when the world held its breath for Y2K zero hour — it's safe to say that no disaster has befallen the...
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Computer Studies Made Cool, on Film and Now on Campus
When Keila Fong arrived at Yale, she had never given much thought to computer science. But then last year everyone on campus started talking about the film "The...
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Air France Crash Suggestion: Have Planes Send Black Box Data By Satellite
When Air France flight 447 crashed on a stormy night off Brazil in 2009, it took its secrets with it to the bottom of the Atlantic. There was no distress call...
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Intel Teaches Machines to Build Own Device Drivers
Intel researchers are developing a method to automate the process of writing device drivers and porting them to different operating systems.
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We've Bin Watching You!
With Bincam, Newcastle University computer scientists have used a camera phone and Facebook to introduce an element of competition to recycling and minimizing waste...
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Dawn Captures Video on Approach to Asteroid Vesta
Scientists working with NASA's Dawn spacecraft have created a new video showing the giant asteroid Vesta as the spacecraft approaches this unexplored world in...
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Future of Virtual Reality: What Pregnancy Feels Like
Men can gain a better understanding of what women experience during pregnancy by wearing a new device developed at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology...
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New Parallelization Technique Boosts Our Ability to Model Biological Systems
A new technique for using multicore chips more efficiently has been developed by researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU).
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IBM Helps Build Students' Software Development Skills
IBM announced during its Innovative 2011 conference that it is bringing its Jazz development environment to universities. JazzHub is part of an effort to assist...
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.s. nderwrites Internet Detour Around Censors
The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy "shadow" Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments...
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