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Cyber-Sleuth Sniffs Out Possible Online Threats in Homage of Osama Bin Laden
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Cyber-Sleuth Sniffs Out Possible Online Threats in Homage of Osama Bin Laden

While law enforcement officers monitor airports and U.S. embassies for possible retaliatory attacks following Osama Bin Laden's death, a renowned cyber-sleuth...

Intel Increases Transistor Speed by Building ­pward
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Intel Increases Transistor Speed by Building ­pward

Intel announced that by building a key portion of a microprocessor's transistor above the chip's surface, it has found a way to make smaller, faster, lower-power...

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China Sets Up Office For Internet Information Management

The Chinese government announced Wednesday the setting up of an office to manage Internet information in a statement of the State Council General Office. The...

May 5, 1992: Wolfenstein 3-D Shoots First-Person Shooter Into Stardom
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May 5, 1992: Wolfenstein 3-D Shoots First-Person Shooter Into Stardom

Id Software releases Wolfenstein 3-D, launching a huge computer-game category.

Researchers Use Xbox Technology to Improve Programs
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Researchers Use Xbox Technology to Improve Programs

University of Texas at Arlington researchers are using Microsofte's Xbox Kinect technology to improve virtual sign language software.

Engineering Universal Access For Learning
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Engineering Universal Access For Learning

Bowie State University is promoting a universal design for learning to overcome the technological, social, and psychological barriers to equal education.

Learning: No Longer a Textbook Case
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Learning: No Longer a Textbook Case

Wake Forest University researchers are using emerging technologies to develop a new teaching method that better engages students who have learning disabilities...

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Humanoid Robots Catch Imagination at National Symposium in Pune

Research and Development Establishment, Engineers, recently held a two-day symposium on robotics and autonomous vehicles, which featured 250 delegates who discussed...

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Best Practices For Keeping Your Home Network Secure

The cyber threat is no longer limited to your office network and work persona.

How Credit Card Data Is Stolen and Sold
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How Credit Card Data Is Stolen and Sold

Last week, after the Sony PlayStation Network was attacked by a group of unknown hackers, Sony's 77 million customers, along with security specialists and government...

Sohaib Athar on Twitter Fame After Bin Laden Raid (q&a)
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Sohaib Athar on Twitter Fame After Bin Laden Raid (q&a)

As U.S. special forces assaulted Osama bin Laden's walled compound in Pakistan, a Twitter user was already recording a rough outline of the events to come.  Sohaib...

Wall Street's Cult Calculator Turns 30
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Wall Street's Cult Calculator Turns 30

Matthew Rothman bought an HP 12c financial calculator for his first job out of college in 1989. Years later, he still has the same calculator. And he still uses...

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Data Analysis Is Creating New Business Opportunities

Sitting in the left-field upper deck to watch the San Francisco Giants play baseball on May 11 would cost you eight bucks if you'd bought the ticket in late April...

How Satellites Helped Get Bin Laden
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How Satellites Helped Get Bin Laden

The climax of the Osama drama took place on the ground in Pakistan, but the gutsy military operation would have been impossible to pull off without a web of orbiting...

Europe Leads in Pushing For Privacy of User Data
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Europe Leads in Pushing For Privacy of User Data

Europe is preparing to the lead the way in establishing new regulations for user data privacy, with plans to propose extending EU-wide rules about privacy breaches...

Robots Learn to Share, Validating Hamilton's Rule
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Robots Learn to Share, Validating Hamilton's Rule

French researchers are developing robots with altruistic traits based on Hamilton's rule, which states that an organism is more likely to express altruism with...

Wall Street Traders Mine Tweets to Gain a Trading Edge
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Wall Street Traders Mine Tweets to Gain a Trading Edge

Wall Street traders are using social networking sites and computer algorithms to decipher the mood of the public to predict market fluctuations.

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Helmet Camera Technology Enables Live Front-Line Video

Helmet-mounted cameras mean live video can be sent direct from the front line back to headquarters. This technology enabled military and intelligence chiefs to...

Online 24/7: "life Logging" Pioneer Clarifies the Future of Cloud Computing
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Online 24/7: "life Logging" Pioneer Clarifies the Future of Cloud Computing

Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell, paperless for more than a decade, envisions data centers saturated with information and services readily available via the...

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Army Wants Its Computers Acting Like Human Brains

The brain is our body’s natural multi-system parallel processing organ. Its job, on a continuous basis, is to compute a huge onslaught of incoming data and spit...
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