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.s. Military Wants to Exert Influence Over Private Cyber Infrastructure
The U.S. military wants more authority to protect the nation's cyberinfrastructure because it depends on power grids, transportation networks, and financial systems...
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Not Enough Students Take Advanced STEM Courses, Warns Iet
More students are taking advanced level science, technology and math in the United Kingdom, but the number is not enough to fill a skills shortage in time to prevent...
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Court Allows Agents to Secretly Put GPS Trackers on Cars
Law enforcement officers may secretly place a GPS device on a person's car without seeking a warrant from a judge, according to a recent federal appeals court...
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Now You Can Earn Virtual Currency By Watching Ads
You know the type—social game addicts who pepper your Facebook page with updates about the wine recipe they created playing "FarmVille," or the gem broker they...
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Virtual Farm Games Absorb Real Money, Real Lives
Last century's cash crops included tobacco, cotton, and sugar cane. Now we have magic cauliflower and super berries, too—and even though they can't be sold at...
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China Limits Use of Foreign Computer Security Technology
China has ordered its banks and other major companies to limit use of foreign computer security technology, setting up a possible trade clash with the United...
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Heady Days of Nanotech Funding Behind It, the .s. Faces Big Challenges
Despite the U.S.'s lead in patenting nanotechnology inventions, it has not been able to translate that success into the marketplace, which has enabled other countries...
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Telepresence Robot Replaces Editor at Ieee Spectrum
With several companies offering telepresence robots to act as people's proxies at the office, IEEE Spectrum magazine investigated their use earlier this year by...
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Wikipedia Age Challenges Scholars
For professors, publishing in elite journals is an unavoidable part of university life. The grueling process of subjecting work to the up-or-down judgment of...
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Software Helps Scientists Conduct Hurricane Research
Scientists studying how and why Atlantic hurricanes form will have a better chance of getting the data they need thanks to flight planning software developed at...
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U.S. Cyber Defense Needs to Focus on Superior Technology, Official Says
With India and China poised to over take the United States in the training of proficient computer scientists, a top U.S. Defense official has said that America...
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Insiders Doubt 2008 Pentagon Hack Was Foreign Spy Attack
In the fall of 2008, a variant of a three year-old, relatively benign worm began winding its way through the U.S. military's networks, spread by troops usingfirst...
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U.s. Funds Improve Broadband Connectivity to Foster Scientific Collaboration
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $20 million to universities in 17 states to improve inter- and intra-campus cyber connectivity.
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Supercomputers Supermodel Supermassive Black Holes
What happens when two black holes smash into each another? They form an even larger black hole while driving jets of relativistic matter into the far reaches...
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Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime
It’s 1 p.m. on a Thursday and Dianne Bates, 40, juggles three screens. She listens to a few songs on her iPod, then taps out a quick e-mail on her iPhone and...
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Researchers Work to Protect, Restore Vulnerable Networks
The University of Arizona is collaborating with researchers at Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a project which is developing...
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Solid-State Leds Promise Brighter, Not Necessarily Greener, Future
Solid-state lighting pioneers long have held that replacing the inefficient light bulbs with more efficient solid-state LEDs would lower electrical usage worldwide...
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Juicing Up Laptops and Cell Phones with Soda Pop or Vegetable Oil?
Scientists report the development of the first fuel cell designed to produce electricity with biochemical technology borrowed from the biological powerhouses...
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