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In The World: Mapping the Logistics of Megacities
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In The World: Mapping the Logistics of Megacities

Logistics data on neighborhoods in several world cities is available online in an open-access pool of information that is graphically represented on city maps. 

Open Source Career Opportunities Continue to Abound
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Open Source Career Opportunities Continue to Abound

Open source jobs remain a consistent source of career growth for technology professionals, according to Dice.com statistics from August 2012 to August 2013. 

Beyond Passwords: New Tools to Identify Humans
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Beyond Passwords: New Tools to Identify Humans

As everything around us becomes connected to the Internet, from cars to thermometers to the stuff inside our mobile phones, technologists are confronting a tough...

Nsa Surveillance Makes For Strange Bedfellows
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Nsa Surveillance Makes For Strange Bedfellows

The controversy over U.S. government surveillance has produced a king-size collection of strange bedfellows. Beneath the covers one finds both amusing ironies and...

Can You Beat This Machine at Angry Birds?
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Can You Beat This Machine at Angry Birds?

A new artificial intelligence agent is capable of playing Angry Birds independently.

Teens Are Losing Interest in Science, Survey Finds
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Teens Are Losing Interest in Science, Survey Finds

A new survey found the number of teenagers interested in careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics dropped 15 percent this year. 

How the N.S.A Cracked the Web
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How the N.S.A Cracked the Web

It's been nearly three months since Edward Snowden started telling the world about the National Security Agency's mass surveillance of global communications.

Huge Botnet Found ­sing Tor Network For Communications
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Huge Botnet Found ­sing Tor Network For Communications

In the wake of the revelations surrounding the NSA's domestic surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations, security experts said there would likely be a...

Nsa Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web
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Nsa Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web

The National Security Agency uses a variety of means to overcome encryption technologies, such as supercomputers, technical strategies, court orders, and persuasion...

Older Brains Benefit From Video Game
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Older Brains Benefit From Video Game

University of California, San Francisco scientists found that people between the ages of 60 and 85 who played a videogame showed improved cognitive controls and...

New Remote-Sensing Development Could Aid Disaster Relief
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New Remote-Sensing Development Could Aid Disaster Relief

Michigan Technological University researchers have developed BACKBOnE, a system that uses crowdsourcing to quickly and more accurately assess the damage from natural...

Smartphones Provide Video Monitoring of Tb Patients
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Smartphones Provide Video Monitoring of Tb Patients

San Diego County health officials are using smartphones to improve treatment monitoring for tuberculosis patients, as part of a collaboration with the University...

Mystery of the Missing Women in Science
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Mystery of the Missing Women in Science

Although test scores prove that girls have science and math aptitude equal to that of boys, many girls choose not to pursue these fields.

Robots: Is the Uncanny Valley Real?
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Robots: Is the Uncanny Valley Real?

Mick Walters opens a door in his lab and points his computer's camera towards the small, blurry, tan-coloured object he has just revealed. "This is Kaspar Two,"...

Privacy App Pinpoints Your Exact Location Using Social Media
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Privacy App Pinpoints Your Exact Location Using Social Media

Many people are unaware that metadata accompanying social media posts can be used to "cybercase" their homes. 

Biodiversity App Logs Insects By Their Telltale Call
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Biodiversity App Logs Insects By Their Telltale Call

Cicada Hunt is a smartphone app designed to listen for the call of the endangered New Forest cicada; it also can be trained to detect other animals by their calls...

Windows 8 Picture Passwords Easily Cracked
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Windows 8 Picture Passwords Easily Cracked

Security researchers have found taht Microsoft Windows 8's picture gesture authentication system is not difficult to crack.

Mapping the Twitterverse
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Mapping the Twitterverse

Researchers are studying how much public geospatial data is generated by Twitter users and how that information could be used by third parties. 

Tech Pioneer Vint Cerf on the Age of Context and Why You Can't Be a Citizen of the Internet
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Tech Pioneer Vint Cerf on the Age of Context and Why You Can't Be a Citizen of the Internet

Few people have as much claim as Vint Cerf to the title "Father of the Internet," but as the technologies he helped develop in the 1970s and 1980s become increasingly...

Your Phone Is Blabbing Your Location to Anyone Who Will Listen
From ACM News

Your Phone Is Blabbing Your Location to Anyone Who Will Listen

Everywhere you go, your phone is sending out signals that can be assembled to form a picture of your movements.
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