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Human Motion Will Power the Internet of Things, Say Energy Harvesting Engineers
The Internet of Things is the imagined network of data links that will emerge when everyday objects are fitted with tiny identifying devices.
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Tiny Trouble Spots Can Fix Complex Networks
A new method of controlling complex networks could have "a transformative impact" on the field.
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Toward Tinier Transistors
Researchers are studying how to make the next generation of transistors smaller.
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Powerful Animal Tracking System Helps Research Take Flight
The new Environmental-Data Automated Track Annotation system enables users to take a big data approach to tracking birds.
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Cern's Hadron Collider Research Fueled By Openstack
CERN is rebuilding its Large Hadron Collider and re-architecting its data center infrastructure based on OpenStack Grizzly.
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Five-Year-Olds to Learn Programming and Algorithms in Major Computing Curriculum Shake-p
The U.K. Department for Education has added programming and algorithm teaching for children as young as five years old to that nation's computing curriculum.
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The Manning Trial Grapples with the Question of Whether Wikileaks Is a Media Entity
Defense arguments in the trial of former Army private Bradley Manning—who stands accused of a number of crimes for handing over classified documents to WikiLeaks...
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Study: Women Just as Satisfied in It Jobs as Elsewhere
A new study suggests that preconceptions about women's dissatisfaction with IT industry jobs are unjustified.
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In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal
Q. How is Big Data being used more in the leadership and management field?
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Supercomputers: Battle of the Speed Machines
China is surging ahead of the United States in the race to build the world's fastest computers.
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Researchers Build an All-Optical Transistor
Researchers have created an optical switch that’s controlled by a single photon.
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Iran Planning Cyber Drills
Head of Iran's Civil Defense Organization Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali announced on Saturday that Iran plans to stage cyber exercises in the near future...
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Parts Installed 'upside Down' Caused Russian Rocket to Explode Last Week
While America was looking forward to the July 4 holiday, the Russian space program was busy putting the final touches on its latest rocket launch.
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Touch Screens Are Tested For Piloting Passenger Jets
As Denis Bonnet slipped into the right-hand seat of a commercial jet demonstrator in the airliner cockpit design center here at Thales, the French electronics group...
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Unmasking Organized Crime Networks with Data
One of the big challenges in fighting organized crime is precisely that it is organized. It is run a bit like a business, with chains of command and responsibility...
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Science Team Outlines Goals for NASA's 2020 Mars Rover
The rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 should look for signs of past life, collect samples for possible future return to Earth, and demonstrate technology for...
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New York City's New Hot Address: .nyc
Say you live in New York City and you're just itching to find an obscure gift for that geek in your life who has everything.
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Device Physics: Simulating Electronic Smog
A new mathematical model can rapidly and accurately estimate electromagnetic emissions from printed circuitboards.
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Birmingham Amps Up Research With New Linux Supercomputer
University of Birmingham researchers are ready to launch the second generation of Linux supercomputer BlueBEAR.
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