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Rsa Gets a Security Chief

RSA, the computer security unit of EMC that was hacked, has named Edward Schwartz as chief security officer, promoting him from the same role at NetWitness, a...

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Emc's Rsa Security Breach May Cost Bank Customers $100 Million

The security breach at EMC Corp.'s RSA unit may cost the banking industry as much as $100 million to replace identification tokens that left their computers vulnerable...

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Many Stuxnet Vulnerabilities Still Unpatched

The media storm over the Stuxnet worm may have passed, but many of the software holes that were used by the worm remain unpatched and leave Siemens customers...

Next Mars Rover Faces Race Against Time, Funding
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Next Mars Rover Faces Race Against Time, Funding

NASA's next Mars rover faces looming technical, financial, and scheduling challenges before its planned launch in November, according to an internal audit released...

Penn Researchers Develop Biological Circuit Components, New Microscope Technique For Measuring Them
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Penn Researchers Develop Biological Circuit Components, New Microscope Technique For Measuring Them

University of Pennsylvania researchers have developed a method for integrating biological molecules directly with electronic circuits so they can operate in open...

Brain Calisthenics For Abstract Ideas
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Brain Calisthenics For Abstract Ideas

Like any other high school junior, Wynn Haimer has a few holes in his academic game. Graphs and equations, for instance: He gets the idea, fine—one is a linear...

Ipv6 Day: Kicking the Tires of a Next-Gen Net Today
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Ipv6 Day: Kicking the Tires of a Next-Gen Net Today

The computing industry has begun a major 24-hour test today to work the kinks out of IPv6, a disruptive but necessary overhaul of the Internet's inner workings...

A European Project Applies the Social Networking Principle to Scientific Research
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A European Project Applies the Social Networking Principle to Scientific Research

Researchers at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid's Ontological Engineering Group  are participating in the Wf4Ever project, which is applying the principles...

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Microsoft Research Virtualizes Idle Desktops to Save Power

Microsoft Research India scientists have developed LiteGreen, power-saving technology that can virtualize enterprise desktops in a virtual machine and migrate them...

Leia in Your Living Room: Projecting a Star-Wars-Style Hologram With a Microsoft Kinect
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Leia in Your Living Room: Projecting a Star-Wars-Style Hologram With a Microsoft Kinect

Michael Bove, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Object-Based Media Group, recently purchased a Kinect for his graduate students to experiment...

Leakage of Private Information From Popular Websites Is Common, New Study Finds
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Leakage of Private Information From Popular Websites Is Common, New Study Finds

Worcester Polytechnic InstituteWorcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers recently conducted a study of more than 100 popular Web sites and found that about...

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After Delay, Hacker to Show Flaws in Siemens Industrial Gear

A security researcher who says he's found serious problems with Siemens computers used in power plants and heavy industry is now expecting to go public with his...

Air France Crash Probe Raises Pilot Training Questions
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Air France Crash Probe Raises Pilot Training Questions

Air France Flight 447 stalled high over the Atlantic Ocean and plunged into the sea even as the pilots repeatedly tried to pull the nose up—a reaction opposite...

The Defenders: Inside an Online Siege
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The Defenders: Inside an Online Siege

In a quiet, windowless auditorium in Bristol, in the west of England, Lucy Robson and her team hunch over their laptops as the seconds on a giant clock above...

Scientists Undeterred By Hubble Successor's Costs
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Scientists Undeterred By Hubble Successor's Costs

The successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is facing cost overruns and years of delay before it launches, but that hasn't dampened the enthusiasm of scientists...

Watson's Lead Developer: 'deep Analysis, Speed, and Results'
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Watson's Lead Developer: 'deep Analysis, Speed, and Results'

David Ferrucci’s official title is "IBM Fellow and Leader of the Semantic Analysis and Integration Department at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center." But to the...

Long Live the Qubit!
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Long Live the Qubit!

A quantum computer is a device—still largely theoretical—that could perform some types of calculations much more rapidly than classical computers. While a bit...

Internet Architect Vint Cerf to Young People: Science and Tech Careers Can Be Rewarding
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Internet Architect Vint Cerf to Young People: Science and Tech Careers Can Be Rewarding

Vint Cerf, one of the Internet's original inventors, notes in an interview that although industry awards are important, they do not receive enough visibility. 

Building a Better Dam Map
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Building a Better Dam Map

A geographically explicit, high-resolution global database of large dams and reservoirs has been developed by a team of scientists at McGill University.

Researcher Reveals How 'computer Geeks' Replaced 'computer Girls'
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Researcher Reveals How 'computer Geeks' Replaced 'computer Girls'

As late as the 1960s, computer programming was perceived as a natural career choice for savvy young women, explained historian Nathan Ensmenger in a recent speech...
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