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New Generation of Virtual Humans Helping to Train Psychologists
University of Southern California professor Albert Rizzo has created virtual humans who can interact with therapists via a computer screen and realistically display...
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Appeals Court Oks Warrantless Wiretapping
The federal government may spy on Americans' communications without warrants and without fear of being sued, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a decision...
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Disinformation Flies in Syria's Growing Cyber War
On Sunday, it was a hijacked Reuters Twitter feed trying to create the impression of a rebel collapse in Aleppo. On Monday, it was another account purporting to...
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How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking
In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed.
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Why Drone Pilots Deserve Medals
The escalating dependence on drone pilots, as Maj. Dave Blair agonized in the May-June issue ofAir & Space Power Journal, is undercutting the ability to award combat...
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Mapping the Future of Climate Change in Africa
Researchers at TACC are working on the Climate Change and African Political Stability program, which features an online mapping tool that analyzes how climate and...
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Learning Machines Scour Twitter in Service of Bullying Research
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are developing a computational method for searching through social media posts to find mentions of bullying events....
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Rutgers Engineers Design Cell Phone App to Reduce Distracted Driving
Researchers at Rutgers University and the Stevens Institute of Technology have developed a smartphone application that can identify where a cell phone user is sitting...
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Hacking Your Memory: Could Total Recall Really Happen?
Do we really need a remake of Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 sci-fi thriller Total Recall? No, but Hollywood is giving us one anyway, this time with Colin Farrell in the...
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Does Cybercrime Really Cost $1 Trillion?
Gen. Keith Alexander is the director of the National Security Agency and oversees U.S. Cyber Command, which means he leads the government's effort to protect America...
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Hey, Hackers: Defense Is Sexy, Too
Pleasing the crowd at the Black Hat and Def Con computer security conferences that took place in Las Vegas last week is relatively easy: simply hop on stage and...
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Women's Participation in Information Technology Patenting, 2012 Update
The National Center for Women & Information Technology recently released its updated report on female information technology patenting, which examines how female...
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Big Data at Your Service
The growing use of information and communication technology is generating vast volumes of structured and unstructured data that present an opportunity that European...
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Strong and Fast Markets, but No Time to Think
Financial markets have greatly improved over the past quarter-century.
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How Fbi Technology Woes Let Fort Hood Shooter Slip By
On November 5, 2009, an Army psychiatrist stationed at Fort Hood, Texas shot and killed 12 fellow soldiers and a civilian Defense Department employee while wounding...
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Public Can Explore Time-Lapse Videos of Earth With New Tool From Carnegie Mellon and Google
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the U.S. Geological Survey have developed a tool for Google's Earth Engine that enables users to access 13 years of...
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U.s. Sports Fans Using Proxy Servers to Watch Olympics on Bbc
The American network NBC has come in for a lot of flak since the weekend when its Olympics coverage began. The Twitter hadtag of #NBCfail began trending soon after...
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Computers Can Predict Effects of HIV Policies
Brown University researchers have developed software that can model the spread of HIV in New York City over several years to make specific predictions about the...
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Inside the Quest to Put the World's Libraries Online
Making a vast, open, distributed network of books, records, and images available to anyone with an Internet link is the goal of the Digital Public Library of America...
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