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Obama to Name Chief of Cybersecurity
Nearly seven months after highlighting the vulnerability of banking, energy and communications systems to Internet attacks, the White House on Tuesday is expected...
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Cyber Challenge Tests Nation's Top Hackers
With the coolness of a card shark at the final table of the World Series of Poker, Matt Bergin pulls the hood of his brown sweatshirt over his head and concentrates...
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ACM and India
ACM is in the process of establishing ACM India as a legal entity and will hold its first conference in late January....
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22 Stories nderground: Iron Mountain's Experimental Room 48
Down a road that winds through the rolling hills of western Pennsylvania, just across from a cow pasture, the bucolic scenery of Butler County is interrupted by...
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Scientists, Lawyers Mull Effects of Home Robots
Scientists and legal scholars are studying the likely effects of the inevitable bond that will form between humans and robots in the coming decade. Although robots...
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Government Surveillance of Social Networks Challenged
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley Law School filed a lawsuit...
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Squeezing Web Sites Onto Cellphones
When a group of engineers at National Instruments Corp. modified a 1988 Oldsmobile so it could be controlled by an iPhone, the company was quick to share the project...
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As Robots Become More Common, Stanford Experts Consider the Legal Challenges
Stanford University researchers are exploring the potential legal ramifications of the growing use of robots in society. "I worry that . . . we'll have some high...
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Open Source as a Model For Business Is Elusive
SAN FRANCISCO — In many ways, MySQL embodies the ideals of the populist software movement known as open source, in which a program’s creator releases it to the...
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Tech Innovation Program Seeks Comments on Potential Future Funding Areas
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is asking for public comment on four white papers that outline potential areas for research funding grants...
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Facebook Offers Poor Personal Data Protection
A study of Norwegian Internet users and social media found that people are willing to post their personal information on social media sites even when they are not...
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Feds Mull Rules, Fees to Spur Net Access
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is debating whether it should force Internet service providers (ISPs) to share their networks with rivals and increase...
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Validity of Software Patents Goes on Trial at .s. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider what types of inventions should be eligible for a patent as part of a case that could undermine legal protections for software...
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Overseas Chinese Return to Start Companies
TIANJIN, China — This city in northeastern China is a long way from Sand Hill Road, home to the world's greatest concentration of venture capitalists. But a deal...
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Fcc to Draft Net Neutrality Rules, Taking Step Toward Web Regulation
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unanimously voted to start drafting rules to support Internet neutrality. "It's hard to imagine anything more...
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Exploring New Frontiers
The Expeditions in Computing program provides scientists with the funding to work on ambitious, often multidisciplinary research.
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.s. Begins Antitrust Inquiry of I.b.m.
The Justice Department has started a preliminary investigation into whether I.B.M. has abused its monopoly position in the market for mainframe computers, which...
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Networked Media: More Than Fun and Games
Networked media means a lot to two different groups. To the billions of Web users worldwide, it is the stuff that makes the Web so great — the 3D games, the mobile...
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Betting Exchange Proposed as Means to Valuing Toxic Assets
Alan Holland, a researcher at the Cork Constraint Computation Centre at University College Cork, Ireland, advocates using an online prediction market to value toxic...
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