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Aiming to Power Ever More Complex Graphics, Nvidia Plans Quad-Core Mobile Chip This Year

Chipmaker Nvidia plans this year to introduce a four-core processor, code-named Project Kal-El, that should offer roughly five times the processing power of its...

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Mature Mobile Industry Moves to Keep Customers It Has

In the pioneer days of the mobile phone industry, wireless carriers raced to put phones in the hands of the unconnected masses. With cellphones now ubiquitous...

Stuxnet Virus Targets and Spread Revealed
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Stuxnet Virus Targets and Spread Revealed

A powerful internet worm repeatedly targeted five industrial facilities in Iran over 10 months, ongoing analysis by security researchers shows.

Testing Technicolor Physics
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Testing Technicolor Physics

The Large Hadron Collider is attempting to produce the Higgs boson, a fundamental particle that scientists believe gives matter its mass and is a central feature...

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Taiwan to Launch New Supercomputer in July

Taiwan expects to have a new supercomputer up and running in July. Working at 170 trillion floating point calculations per second, the newest Taiwanese supercomputer...

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Maryland Agencies Hope to Expand Cybersecurity Talent Pool

Maryland is home to several key U.S. cybersecurity agencies, and Maryland government and industry officials are increasing their efforts to cultivate new employees...

Does Sex Discrimination in Science Keep Women Down?
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Does Sex Discrimination in Science Keep Women Down?

Today, more than half of all Ph.D.s in the life sciences are awarded to women, compared to a measly 13% bestowed upon women in 1970. However, women still lag...

Progress in Artificial Intelligence Brings Wonders and Fears
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Progress in Artificial Intelligence Brings Wonders and Fears

At the dawn of the modern computer era, two Pentagon-financed laboratories bracketed Stanford University. At one laboratory, a small group of scientists and engineers...

Better Than Human? What's Next for Jeopardy! Computer
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Better Than Human? What's Next for Jeopardy! Computer

A medical robot; a Google-killer; a financial advisor; a tool for trawling legal documents; an aide for the intelligence services. These are just some of the...

The Dirty Little Secrets of Search
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The Dirty Little Secrets of Search

Pretend for a moment that you are Google’s search engine. Someone types the word “dresses” and hits enter. What will be the very first result?

A Father Knows Best: Vint Cerf Re-Thinks the Internet in Stanford Talk
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A Father Knows Best: Vint Cerf Re-Thinks the Internet in Stanford Talk

Google's  Vint Cerf, who helped develop the Internet in the 1970s, recently discussed the need to rethink the Internet to handle the growing demand of smartphones...

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'rural Sourcing' Offers Way to Keep Jobs at Home

Rural Sourcing Inc. represents a growing trend that is helping to keep information technology jobs in the United States by locating them in smaller cities instead...

The Cyberweapon That Could Take Down the Internet
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The Cyberweapon That Could Take Down the Internet

University of Minnesota researchers have developed a cyberweapon that turns the structure of the Internet against itself, but ultimately could be used to make the...

Electronic Mining of Published Research May Lead to New Scientific Breakthroughs
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Electronic Mining of Published Research May Lead to New Scientific Breakthroughs

University of Chicago researchers are exploring how metaknowledge can be used to better understand science's social context and the biases that can affect research...

 Report: Stuxnet Hit 5 Gateway Targets on Its Way to Iranian Plant
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Report: Stuxnet Hit 5 Gateway Targets on Its Way to Iranian Plant

Attackers behind the Stuxnet computer worm focused on targeting five organizations in Iran that they believed would get them to their final target in that country...

Nasa
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Nasa

The last time NASA visited the Tempel 1 comet, it was with fireworks, on July 4, 2005. On that day, the Deep Impact spacecraft slammed an 820-pound projectile...

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Wireless Advances Could Mean No More Cell Towers

As cell phones have spread, so have large cell towers—those unsightly stalks of steel topped by transmitters and other electronics that sprouted across the country...

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Saudi Women in ­.s. Seek Segregation on Facebook

A 22,000-member group for Saudis studying in the US on the social networking website Facebook has been split into two groups, one for women and one for men. The...

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Web Words That Lure the Readers

The Huffington Post has hired veteran journalists to beef up its news coverage. But a significant chunk of its readers come instead for articles like one published...

Print Me a Stradivarius
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Print Me a Stradivarius

The industrial revolution of the late 18th century made possible the mass production of goods, thereby creating economies of scale which changed the economy—and...
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