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Disney Research Soccer Formations Analysis Suggests Home Advantage Is Result of Execution
An automated analysis of soccer team formations shows visiting teams are less successful than home teams only because they play conservatively.
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The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple
Shortly after Tim Cook succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple in August 2011, he told a confidant that he got up every morning reminding himself just to do the right...
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The Ietf Needed a Wake-Up Call on Security, Says Chairman
Internet Engineering Task Force members are focusing on security and how to protect users from pervasive monitoring in a meeting that began Sunday in London.
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Rise of the Human Exoskeletons
On the outskirts of Pisa in a back room of a modern block, a machine is waiting for its operator.
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Report Calls for Better Backstops to Protect Power Grid From Cyberattacks
Despite increasing anxiety over the possibility of a cyberattack on the power grid, the U.S. energy industry and government are ill-equipped to counter the threat...
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What Do Data Brokers Know About Me?
I once ran into a friend and her husband at the playground in our neighborhood in Manhattan.
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Brands Take Advantage of Hci Technologies
Technologies demonstrated in motion pictures are coming to life for advertisers.
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Experts Urge Conservatism on Crypto Standards
Security people are, by nature, cautious and methodical, and that is even more true of cryptographers.
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Meet the Seven People Who Hold the Keys to Worldwide Internet Security
In a nondescript industrial estate in El Segundo, a boxy suburb in south-west Los Angeles just a mile or two from LAX international airport, 20 people wait in a...
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Hackers Allegedly Stole $400 Million in Bitcoins. Here's How to Catch Them.
On Friday, what had been the world's leading Bitcoin exchange declared bankrutpcy, claiming that hackers had exploited a technical issue called "transaction malleability...
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Mobile Voting Systems Potentially Better Than Electronic Ones: Study
Rice University researchers have designed a mobile voting system optimized for use on smartphones and have tested it against traditional voting platforms.
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Phone's Wi-Fi Hotspot Acts as Sos Beacon in Disasters
A new app turns a smartphone into a wireless SOS beacon that could help rescuers find people who have been trapped in collapsed buildings.
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Battery-Free Technology Brings Gesture Recognition to All Devices
A new gesture-recognition system runs without batteries and enables gesture control for electronic devices that are hidden from sight.
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Draft Language Signals More Transparent Nist
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has released new guidance on cryptographic standards.
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DARPA Targets Counterfeit Electronics
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing a tool to verify the trustworthiness of electronic components.
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The Mammoth Cometh
The first time Ben Novak saw a passenger pigeon, he fell to his knees and remained in that position, speechless, for 20 minutes.
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Computer Models Help nravel Mystery of Puebloans' Disappearance
Remember playing "The Oregon Trail" computer game in middle school?
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Xi Jinping Leads Internet Security Group
President Xi Jinping will head the central Internet security and informatization leading group, according to a statement released after the first meeting of the...
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Autonomous Drones Flock Like Birds
A Hungarian team has created the first drones that can fly as a coordinated flock.
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