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Pa College: Social Media Blackout Wins Converts
Forty-two percent of students responding to in-house surveys at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology said they supported a weeklong blackout of social...
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Diminishing Returns? U.s. Science Productivity Continues to Decline
U.S. science research efficiency is trending downward, according to a National Science Foundation study. U.S. research output, as measured by scientific publication...
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The 24-Hour Athenian Democracy
"I'm aware of your need to stay anonymous, but I have to be able to describe the scope of this movement. Can any of you tell me where you're typing from?"
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It Hiring Projected to Increase in Q1 2011
Information technology (IT) employment is expected to rise next year as 11 percent of 1,400 CIOs from U.S. companies surveyed by Robert Half Technology said they...
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U.s. Students Show Significant Gains in Math, Science Results
U.S. math and science scores for students significantly improved on the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's Program for International Student...
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Elusive Spintronics Success Could Lead to Single Chip For Processing and Memory
The proactive control of magnetically polarized current has been demonstrated for the first time, raising the possibility of combining computer memory and processing...
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Alto Protocol Could Improve Peer-to-Peer Networks
The Internet Engineering Task Force is developing Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO), a peer-to-peer system designed to improve the performance of client...
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Ua-Linked Effort Aims to Retool Workings of Net
Researchers and colleagues from 10 institutions are collaborating on the Named Data Networking project to restructure the Internet's architecture, with changes...
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Iphone Games: Kids nknowingly Spend Real Money in 'smurf's Village'
"The Smurfs' Village," a game for the iPhone and other Apple gadgets, was released a month ago and quickly became the highest-grossing application in the iTunes...
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Supercomputing Research Opens Doors for Drug Discovery
A quicker and cheaper technique to scan molecular databases developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could put scientists on...
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Diminishing Returns?: U.s. Science Productivity Continues to Drop
A historic downward shift in U.S. research efficiency is described in a new report on science publication trends, showing that while funding rose, the quantity...
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Technique Turns Computer Chip Defects Into An Advantage
Physicists at Ohio State University have discovered that tiny defects inside a computer chip can be used to tune the properties of key atoms in the chip.
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Avant-Garde Music Offers A Gateway to Artificial Intelligence
Stretching their boundaries, artificial intelligence researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have teamed up with musicians on an unlikely project: a digital...
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Assange's 'Poison Pill' File Impossible to Stop, Expert Says
The Poison Pill. The Doomsday Files. Or simply, The Insurance.
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Apple to Tap Intel's Graphics For Future Macbooks
Apple has decided to use Intel's upcoming Sandy Bridge processors in its MacBook line, a transition that will occur in 2011, squeezing out Nvidia's graphics processors...
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World's Smallest Battery Created at DoE Nanotechnology Center
The Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies' study of a single nanowire anode provides researchers with the closest view so far of what happens during the charging...
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Gov't Crackdown Spurs Initiatives to Route Around Dns
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
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MIT Expands and Strengthens its Links to China
MIT's connections to China, already well-established, are set to be strengthened and expanded as part of a major, long-term effort to promote intellectual and...
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Light Speed Now a Bottleneck in Fastest Networks
High-frequency trading firms should consider where they locate their data centers, according to researchers studying light propagation delays in fiber-optic based...
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