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Security Professionals Stymied By Outdated Visualization Tools
Earlier this year, the film Blackhat got high marks for realistic scenes in which hackers and information security specialists work at their computers to hunt down...
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How Benford's Law Reveals Suspicious Activity on Twitter
Back in the 1880s, the American astronomer Simon Newcomb noticed something strange about the book of logarithmic tables in his library—the earlier pages were much...
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Nasa's Nexss Coalition to Lead Search For Life on Distant Worlds
NASA is bringing together experts spanning a variety of scientific fields for an unprecedented initiative dedicated to the search for life on planets outside our...
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Disney Researchers Show Soft Sides With Layered Fabric 3D Printer
Researchers have developed a three-dimensional printer that layers laser-cut sheets of fabric to form soft, squeezable objects.
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A Research Agenda For Intelligent Systems Will Result in Fundamental New Capabilities For Understanding the Earth System
The U.S. National Science Foundation last month hosted a workshop that, it hopes, will result in new capabilities for understanding the Earth system.
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Researchers Hack Sony Headset to Simulate Autism
Japanese researchers have used an experimental headset to simulate the vision and hearing of people with autism spectrum disorder.
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Smart City Technology May Be Vulnerable to Hackers
Cesar Cerrudo, chief technology officer at IOActive Labs, says "smart city" technologies are vulnerable to cyberattacks.
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Revenge of the Nerds: Starting Salaries For Class of 2015 Techies Top $100k
Demand for students graduating with computer science, software engineering, and computer engineering degrees is on the rise.
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How Click Farms Have Inflated Social Media Currency
Every Morning, Kim Casipong strolls past barbed wire, six dogs, and a watchman in order to get to her job in a pink apartment building decorated with ornate stonework...
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3D Simulations of Colliding Black Holes Hailed As Most Realistic Yet
When astronomers try to simulate colliding giant black holes, they usually rely on simplified approximations to model the swirling disks of matter that surround...
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On Time-Lapse Rocket Ride to Trade Center's Top, Glimpse of Doomed Tower
An imposingly realistic vision of the old 1 World Trade Center, the ultimately doomed north tower, will begin appearing next month in a most unlikely place: the...
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How Factory Workers Learned to Love Their Robot Colleagues
Workers at a Navistar truck plant in Ohio weren't eager to make friends when a new colleague showed up on the factory floor nearly 40 years ago.
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Google's Project Loon Close to Launching Thousands of Balloons
Google is close to launching thousands of balloons in an effort to provide Internet access from the sky.
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Paper Memory Ready to Roll
Researchers have printed memory circuits directly on paper using roll-to-roll printing techniques and commercially available metallic inks.
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N-Zero Envisions 'asleep-Yet-Aware' Electronics That Could Revolutionize Remote Wireless Sensors
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Near Zero Power and Sensor Operations program is working to develop wireless, event-driven sensing capabilities...
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ACM Honors Wing, Hall For Service, Contribution
Recognizing the vision and achievement of two leaders who have transformed the way the world views computing.
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Technology That Prods You to Take Action, Not Just Collect Data
The bookshelves in Natasha Dow Schüll’s office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are punctuated here and there with kitchen timers: a windup orange plastic...
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Hackers sing Startling New Ways to Steal Your Passwords
Rsearchers have found hackers can speculate PINs by interpreting video of people tapping their smartphone screens even when the display is not visible.
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Google's Search pdated Will Remake the Web in Its Own Image
Some people are calling it Mobilegeddon.
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