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Mind Control Will Shape Future of Gaming and Cell Phones
In an interview, University of Alabama at Huntsville professor Jason T. Cassibry shares his thoughts about the new technological advances on the horizon.
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Insider Security Threat Gets a Serious Look By .s. Security Agencies
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Secret Service, and Carnegie Mellon University recently published a study that examined the technical...
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Fbi Launches $1 Billion Face Recognition Project
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is using facial-recognition technology to identify criminals and the system will be rolled out nationwide by 2014.
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A Computational Model of an Anticancer Nanoparticle
Researchers have used IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer to build a model of how a drug inhibits a target enzyme known to spur the spread of cancer.
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Eye Movements Could Help in Diagnosis of Neurological Disorders
USC researchers have developed a method for detecting several neurological disorders by studying a person's eye movements.
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Facebook's China Problem
Last May when Mark Zuckerberg wed his Chinese-American girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, a joke began to make the rounds on China's version of Twitter, a microblog—or...
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Tech's New Wave, Driven by Data
Technology tends to cascade into the marketplace in waves. Think of personal computers in the 1980s, the Internet in the 1990s, and smartphones in the last five...
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Anonymous: Behind the Masks of the Cyber Insurgents
Spalding railway station in Lincolnshire is not a big place. It takes me about two seconds to scan the platform and spot who I'm looking for: Jake Davis, aka Topiary...
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Are Hackers Heroes?
On the last day of June of this year, a tech Website called Redmond Pie posted two articles in quick succession that, on their face, had nothing to do with each...
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Insiders Suspected in Saudi Cyber Attack
One or more insiders with high-level access are suspected of assisting the hackers who damaged some 30,000 computers at Saudi Arabia's national oil company last...
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Robots at War: Scholars Debate the Ethical Issues
Lethal autonomous systems are gradually penetrating battlefield operations, and Georgia Tech professor Ronald C. Arkin predicts the advent of robots that are ethically...
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Artificial Intelligence, Powered by Many Humans
University of Rochester researchers have developed Chorus, an approach to virtual personal assistants that creates a smart artificial chat partner from small contributions...
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Amateur Mapmakers Redraw Boundaries, Working Online
Reshaped and renamed by generations of developers and gentrifiers, the borders of New York City’s neighborhoods are often hazy at best. Yesterday's Chinatown is...
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Big Brother on a Budget: How Internet Surveillance Got So Cheap
When Libyan rebels finally wrested control of the country last year away from its mercurial dictator, they discovered the Qaddafi regime had received an unusual...
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Estonia Reprograms First Graders as Web Coders
Estonian public schools recently launched a program to develop a curriculum for teaching Web and mobile application development to students as early as first grade...
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New App Will Help Make Sign Language Communication More Accessible
Hearing and deaf sign language users should be able to communicate more effectively using an app designed by researchers at the University of Bristol.
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Most Watched Online Ad of 2012 Campaign Is…
As we head into the election homestretch, it seems a good time to ask: What is the top watched online ad of the 2012 election cycle so far?
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What Do the H-Bomb and the Internet Have in Common? Paul Baran
Paul Baran set out to build a means of communication that could survive a nuclear war. And he ended up inventing the fundamental networking techniques that underpin...
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'degrade, Disrupt, Deceive': .s. Talks Openly About Hacking Foes
There was a time, not all that long ago, when the U.S. military wouldn't even whisper about its plans to hack into opponents' networks.
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