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New Ways Bankers Are Spying on You
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New Ways Bankers Are Spying on You

Big Banker is watching you—more closely than ever.

Georgia Tech Supports Darpa's $100 Million Next-Generation Hpc Project
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Georgia Tech Supports Darpa's $100 Million Next-Generation Hpc Project

The $100 million DARPA Ubiquitous High Performance Computing initiative aims to fit a high performance petaflop computer into a single rack measuring 24 inches...

China's Supercomputers to Sharpen Competitive Edge
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China's Supercomputers to Sharpen Competitive Edge

As a China-made supercomputer was recently ranked as the world's fastest, Chinese high performance computer manufacturers are inspired to sharpen their competitive...

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High-Tech Jobs Next Phase of Outsourcing?

In the latest phase of globalization, some economists say, Silicon Valley is in danger of losing a sizable piece of its knowledge-based industry to India in much...

The Emergence of Holographic Video
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The Emergence of Holographic Video

Experimental networked display refreshes holograms every two seconds.

Intel's Andy Grove on Manufacturing in America
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Intel's Andy Grove on Manufacturing in America

Among the scores of fabless chip companies and product design houses in Silicon Valley, Intel is a standout. It's an American high-tech company that not only...

Ftc's First Chief Technologist: Drm Basher Ed Felten
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Ftc's First Chief Technologist: Drm Basher Ed Felten

What do you get when you spend your academic career exposing broken DRM schemes, suing the recording industry when they try to silence you, showing the insecurity...

Money For Scientific Research May Be Scarce With a Republican-Led House
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Money For Scientific Research May Be Scarce With a Republican-Led House

Federal financing of science research, which has risen quickly since the Obama administration came to power, could fall back to pre-Obama levels if the incoming...

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New Google Tool Makes Websites Twice as Fast

The optimization tool is the latest result of Google's speed obsession and could add to the company's bottom line.

Web Firms Face Brutal Competition in China
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Web Firms Face Brutal Competition in China

In China's young Internet industry, competitors draw blood.

The New New Andreessen
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The New New Andreessen

With Andreessen Horowitz, visionary entrepreneur Marc Andreessen is trying to reinvent himself as a top-tier venture capitalist and world-class power broker.

Nasa Mission Successfully Flies By Comet Hartley 2
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Nasa Mission Successfully Flies By Comet Hartley 2

NASA's EPOXI mission successfully flew by comet Hartley 2 at about 7 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT) today, and the spacecraft has begun returning images. Hartley 2 is...

Long-Range Undersea Robot Does Its Own Research
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Long-Range Undersea Robot Does Its Own Research

A new breed of undersea robot promises to give oceanographers a deeper understanding of ocean life by going faster, farther, and longer than its predecessors—and...

Neighborhood Mischief Caught on Tape
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Neighborhood Mischief Caught on Tape

Steve Miller is justifiably proud of the manicured grounds around his stately stucco home in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. So he was nonplussed last year when he discovered...

Social Studies
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Social Studies

In MIT's Human Dynamics Lab, Sandy Pentland uses cellphones and wearable sensors to research nonverbal signals, information flow, and the value of face-to-face...

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Can Science Tell ­S Right From Wrong?

A distinguished panel will participate in "The Great Debate: Can Science Tell Us Right From Wrong?" this Saturday (Nov. 6) at Arizona State University.

Computer Scientists Make Progress on Math Puzzle
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Computer Scientists Make Progress on Math Puzzle

University of Texas at Dallas professors Linda Morales and Hal Sudborough have made progress on the Topswops mathematical puzzle. Stanford University computer...

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Um Researchers Are Studying Child-Mother Interactions to Design Robots With Social Skills

University of Miami developmental psychologists and computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego are studying the interaction between infants...

Robot's Space Debut 'giant Leap For Tinmankind'
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Robot's Space Debut 'giant Leap For Tinmankind'

NASA is sending a humanoid robot, called Robonaut 2, to the International Space Station for the first time. R2 has more than 350 electrical sensors throughout...

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Online Social Networks and Human Behavior

Online social networks have become important laboratories for social scientists. "The volume of online social networking is exploding, and it appears it is becoming...
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