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Quantum Crypto Products Cracked By Researchers
A European research team has shown that commercial implementations of quantum key distribution (QKD) are subject to eavesdropping with off-the-shelf materials.
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DARPA Wants to Create Brainiac Bot Tots
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding scientist Shane Mueller's efforts to expand upon the Turing test as part of an attempt to...
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.s. Stimulus Funding Is Boosting Innovation
The White House recently published its first analysis of the impact of the ARRA stimulus package on advances in science, claiming successes in funding innovation...
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Navigation App Gives You Freedom to Explore
Swansea University's Simon Robinson and colleagues have developed a smartphone navigation application that gives pedestrians the opportunity to explore unfamiliar...
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Computer Scientist Puts NSF Funding to Work for More Reliable Computing
University of California, San Diego professor Yuanyuan Zhou recently received several grants for research projects aimed at making computer systems more reliable...
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The Big Promise of Big Data: What You Need to Know Today
In the never-ending quest for a competitive advantage, organizations are turning to large repositories of corporate and external data to uncover trends, statistics...
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Anticensorship Tool Proves Too Good to Be True
Experts warn that the software could identify those it claims to protect.
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Campusreader Aims to Turn Electronic Tablets Into Tools
The iPad, Kindle, and other electronic reading tablets may prove to be game-changers to help people overcome barriers to effective reading and comprehension, say...
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Tim Berners-Lee Calls For Free Internet Worldwide
Tim Berners-Lee said that he would like to see everybody given a low-bandwidth connection "by default."
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Intel Puts Game Physics in the Cloud
Simulating the physics of light makes for games that better mimic the real world.
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Database Helps Researchers Identify Drug Targets
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have developed a new computational method that will provide scientists with a better mechanistic understanding of...
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Scientists Reveal Battery Behavior at the Nanoscale
As industry seeks improved battery power sources, cutting-edge microscopy performed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is providing...
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Why Isn't the Price of Broadband Obeying Moore's Law?
A new index from researchers at Northwestern University shows that the explosive pace in adopting broadband Internet access since 2004 has not led to a decline...
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Cern Collides With a Patent Reality
Previously reluctant to patent the inventions, the CERN particle physics laboratory recently struck a deal with the World Intellectual Property Organization to...
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Steampunk Chip Takes the Heat
Steampunk, the reimagining of modern day technology through a Victorian perspective, has found an unlikely follower in the US Defense Advanced Research Projects...
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Pew Study: We've Got Phone Apps, But Not All of S Are sing Them
Thirty-five percent of adults in the United States have "apps," or software programs on their cell phones now, but only 24 percent of them are actually using...
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Computer in Wrapping-Paper Form
Investigators SUNY Binghamton are giving factory production of solar energy cells a modern makeover. Their new approach includes the use of "continuous electronic...
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Darpa Wants You To Build An Anti-Secrecy App
Usually the Pentagon expends time and technological effort to protect information. But now the far-out researchers at Darpa are looking for a few good futurists...
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Online Newsletter Targets Informatics Professionals
The Standards Standard online newsletter has been launched by the American Medical Informatics Association for health professionals working in the global informatics...
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