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Obama Seeking to Boost Study of Human Brain
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Obama Seeking to Boost Study of Human Brain

The Obama administration is planning a project to create a comprehensive map of the human brain. 

Exposé of Chinese Data Thieves Reveals Sloppy Tactics
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Exposé of Chinese Data Thieves Reveals Sloppy Tactics

A beige office block in Shanghai's suburbs belonging to the Chinese army became world famous on Tuesday after Mandiant, a Washington-based computer security company...

Cybercrime: It's Serious, But Exactly How Serious?
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Cybercrime: It's Serious, But Exactly How Serious?

Symantec says $110 billion annually while McAfee says $1 trillion. Why can't anyone agree?

Brown Mooc to Lure High School Students to STEM
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Brown Mooc to Lure High School Students to STEM

Brown University will offer a massive open online course (MOOC) aimed at drawing high school students to careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)...

The Drones Come Home
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The Drones Come Home

At the edge of a stubbly, dried-out alfalfa field outside Grand Junction, Colorado, Deputy Sheriff Derek Johnson, a stocky young man with a buzz cut, squints at...

China Defense Ministry Refutes Cyber Attack Allegations
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China Defense Ministry Refutes Cyber Attack Allegations

China's military spokesman said on Wednesday that the country's armed forces had never backed any hacking activities, denouncing U.S. cyber security firm Mandiant's...

Data Mining Is New Lobbying Gold
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Data Mining Is New Lobbying Gold

A congressman gets an earful from his neighbor after church about a tax bill. A senator suddenly finds old high school classmates calling her about an upcoming...

The Road to Uncovering a Wartime Colossus
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The Road to Uncovering a Wartime Colossus

The story of how the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park aided the allied code-cracking effort during World War II is becoming well known. Its claim to be a forerunner...

Software that Tracks People on Social Media Created By Defence Firm
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Software that Tracks People on Social Media Created By Defence Firm

A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social...

Crowds Prowl Google Street View to Speed Road Repairs
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Crowds Prowl Google Street View to Speed Road Repairs

Software developed by a team at the University of Maryland at College Park makes use of crowdsourcing to report road problems to local governments. 

Robots With Lift
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Robots With Lift

Harvard University researchers have developed a soft robot that can leap up to one foot in the air using small explosions. 

Supercomputing Crucial to Clean Energy Production
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Supercomputing Crucial to Clean Energy Production

The U.S. National Energy Technology Laboratory has acquired a 500-teraflop SGI supercomputer to advance energy and environmental research. 

Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.s.
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Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.s.

On the outskirts of Shanghai, in a run-down neighborhood dominated by a 12-story white office tower, sits a People's Liberation Army base for China’s growing corps...

New High-Tech Warfare Medal Draws Backlash
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New High-Tech Warfare Medal Draws Backlash

The Pentagon sparked an uproar among troops and veterans when it revealed that a new high-level medal honoring drone pilots will rank above some traditional combat...

Nasa to Chronicle Close Earth Flyby of Asteroid
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Nasa to Chronicle Close Earth Flyby of Asteroid

NASA Television will provide commentary starting at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) on Friday, Feb. 15, during the close, but safe, flyby of a small near-Earth asteroid...

Moshers, Heavy Metal and Emergent Behavior
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Moshers, Heavy Metal and Emergent Behavior

Researchers say the collective movement of concert-goers in a mosh pit is mathematically similar to that of a disordered 2-D gas. 

Mapping the Underworld
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Mapping the Underworld

The Mapping the Underworld project is developing a multi-sensor platform that can locate, map in three dimensions, and record the position of buried utility assets...

Self-Driving Car Given Uk Test Run at Oxford University
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Self-Driving Car Given Uk Test Run at Oxford University

Oxford University researchers have developed a self-driving car that uses lasers and small cameras, rather than GPS, to direct the vehicle along regular routes. ...

Hidden System Makes It Easier For Elderly People to Live at Home
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Hidden System Makes It Easier For Elderly People to Live at Home

A new assistive system to help senior citizens live at home embeds a tablet computer in the wall for centralized information access. 

Why We're Building a 1-Billion Euro Model of a Human Brain
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Why We're Building a 1-Billion Euro Model of a Human Brain

A 1-billion euro research prize will be dedicated to the Human Brain Project, aimed at recreating the human brain in a supercomputer to advance neuroscience.
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