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Digital Agenda: EU-Funded Research to Make the 'Cloud' Greener
The Eurocloud project aims to develop a 3D microchip that can drastically cut the electricity and the installation costs of servers in cloud computing data centers...
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A Smartphone in Your Glasses
EPFL researchers are developing a prototype of a pair of augmented glasses that allow the wearer to read messages, look at an itinerary, and receive a variety of...
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Megadroid: 300,000 Androids Clustered Together to Study Network Havoc
Anyone who builds an Android app knows that testing on real devices is important. But what if instead of testing on one device at a time, you could test 300,000...
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New Android Malware App Turns Phone Into Surveillance Device
Mobile malware has largely been limited to Trojans buried inside a malicious app targeting sensitive data stored on the phone such as email, contact information...
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U.s. Bank Website Hackers Used Advanced Botnets, Diverse Tools
The hackers behind the cyber attacks on major U.S. banks have repeatedly disrupted online banking by using sophisticated and diverse tools that point to a carefully...
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Cyber Attackers Disrupt Internet in Iran: Official
Cyber attackers have targeted Iranian infrastructure and communications companies, disrupting the Internet across the country, a state official was quoted as saying...
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Leonard Kleinrock, the Tx-2 and the Seeds of the Internet
It was 4:00 in the morning, and Leonard Kleinrock was sitting inside MIT's Lincoln Laboratory on the outskirts of Boston, hunched in front of a massive computer...
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Proposed Space Boat Could Explore Lakes on Saturn's Moon Titan
While rovers are ideal for exploring Mars, a boat is best for Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
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Online Education Grows Up, and For Now, It's Free
Online education isn't particularly new. It has been around in some form since the 1990s, but what is new is the speed and scale in which online learning is growing...
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More Mobile News Consumers Choosing Web Over Apps
Mobile apps were supposed to be the reset button for the news industry.
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Commander: Iranian Cyber Forces Easily Access Enemies' Highly Classified Info
Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps Navy Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi stressed the high capability of the country's cyberwar experts, and said the Iranian...
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Google Leapfrogs Microsoft in Market Value
For Microsoft, it was bad enough when Apple's stock market value surpassed its own in 2010. Now Google, a company that didn't even exist 15 years ago, just did...
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U.s. Law Enforcement Is Tracking Who Calls, Texts, and Emails Whom More Often Than Ever Before
Law enforcement isn't just interested in what Americans are saying on the phone or on the Internet.
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Apple Designs the Future
It’s impossible to look anywhere these days without noticing how profoundly Apple has influenced design and computing interfaces.
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Mobile Ads: Here's What Works and What Doesn't
In 2010, Apple Inc. AAPL co-founder Steve Jobs proclaimed, "Mobile advertising really sucks." Now, however, the rule book for what works in mobile advertising is...
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Next p: Environmentally Safe Electronics That Also Vanish in the Body
University of Illinois researchers say they have developed biodegradable electronics technology that could lead to new design paradigms for a wide range of applications...
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Power, Pollution, and the Internet
Jeff Rothschild's machines at Facebook had a problem he knew he had to solve immediately. They were about to melt.
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Larry Roberts Calls Himself the Founder of the Internet. Who Are You to Argue?
In 1966, the U.S. Department of Defense hired Roberts to design the ARPAnet, a computer network that would connect various research outfits across the country.
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Automatic Building Mapping Could Help Emergency Responders
MIT researchers have built a wearable sensor system that automatically creates a digital map of the environment through which the wearer is moving.
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