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R&d Spending to Continue Climbing
The United States, Europe, and Asia are expected to boost spending on R&D a combined 5.2 percent to $14 trillion in 2012, according to a Battelle Memorial Institute...
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Forrester's Five Futuristic Computing Form Factors
Forrester Research analyst Sarah Rotman Epps says five computing form factors could gain momentum in the near future.
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Educators Look For Resources, New Programs Amid STEM Push
U.S. President Obama's push to prepare 100,000 new STEM educators over the next 10 years, the effort by the National Science Teachers Association to have science...
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Wearing Your Computer on Your Sleeve
Google and Apple researchers are developing projects that might result in wearable computers, with smartphones acting as the hub for information sharing.
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Digital Data on Patients Raises Risk of Breaches
One afternoon last spring, Micky Tripathi received a panicked call from an employee. Someone had broken into his car and stolen his briefcase and company laptop...
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Can Cornell Build a Silicon Valley Culture in New York City?
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that Cornell University and its partner Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have been approved to build a...
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Should We Fire the First Shot in a Cyberwar?
Military bureaucracies around the world are likely to see offensive capabilities as increasingly attractive in any cyberwar, suggests the head of the computer...
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Sopa Hearings Cast Debate as Old Media vs. New Media
The circus atmosphere of the hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act, introduced by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), reflected the high-stakes, emotional nature of the...
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Iran's Alleged Drone Hack: Tough, but Possible
Take everything that Iran says about its captured U.S. drone with a grain of salt. But its new claim that it spoofed the drone’s navigational controls isn't implausible...
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Dm: Iran Pioneering Drone Production
Iran is a leading country in manufacturing different types of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi stressed on Monday.
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Tiny Biocomputers Move Closer to Reality
Several research groups are developing DNA-based circuits that could one day monitor and treat disease from inside the body.
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Initiative Aims For 100,000 New STEM Teachers
The 100Kin10 initiative — aims to increase the supply of math and science teachers by preparing 100,000 new ones over the next 10 years. It is based on President...
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Iran Hijacked .s. Drone, Says Iranian Engineer
Iran guided the CIA's "lost" stealth drone to an intact landing inside hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-known to the U.S. military...
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Brain-Computer Interface Plays Music Based on Person's Mood
A brain-computer interface that plays music based on the mental state of the user is the focus of a new four-year project by researchers at the universities of...
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Meet Sopa Author Lamar Smith, Hollywood's Favorite Republican
Rep. Lamar Smith, whose congressional district in Texas encompasses the cropland and grazing land stretching between Austin and San Antonio, might seem like an...
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Cities Fail to Recognize Full Potential of Smart Technologies
Opening up data and digital assets is critical to accelerating low-carbon cities, according to a recent University of Nottingham report.
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Carrier Iq Gets Transparent About Its Mobile Monitoring
It's been a tumultuous few weeks for Carrier IQ, the mobile analytics outfit at the center of a continuing privacy brouhaha over what its diagnostic software...
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Flight of the Warbots
How a save-the-earth maker of solar-powered aircraft became the world's most prolific manufacturer of military drones.
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The Cyber Security Industrial Complex
Documents point to a huge industry that provides online surveillance tools to governments and police agencies.
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