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The History of Hadoop: From 4 Nodes to the Future of Data
Depending on how one defines its birth, Hadoop is now 10 years old. In that decade, Hadoop has gone from being the hopeful answer to Yahoo’s search-engine woes...
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Dhs Built Domestic Surveillance Tech Into Predator Drones
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance...
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Google Glass App Identifies You By Your Fashion Sense
A new human-recognition system designed for the Google Glass platform can recognize people by the clothes they wear.
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Researchers Develop Algorithm to Maximize Friendship Acceptance By Strangers on Social Networks
A new algorithm can help strangers become 'friends' with people they do not know on social networks.
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Frozen Android Phones Give Up Data Secrets
Researchers were able to bypass the encryption system of an Android smartphone by freezing it for an hour.
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Lars Rasmussen: The Brains Behind Facebook's Future
For a man that made his career out of helping millions of people find their way around, Lars Rasmussen is frank about his own navigational shortcomings.
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New Robots in the Workplace: Job Creators or Job Terminators?
New, affordable robots are being developed that can perform advanced tasks and may threaten jobs.
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The Big-Data Interview: Making Sense of the New World Order
In April 2003, British and U.S. researchers declared the Human Genome Project complete.
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Unreported Side Effects of Drugs Are Found Using Internet Search Data, Study Finds
Researchers found evidence of unreported prescription drug side effects before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration did by analyzing search engine query data.
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Moore's Law Is Not Just for Computers
Predicting the future of technology often seems a fool's game.
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Feds Crack Down on Mobile-Phone Spammers
The U.S Federal Trade Commission said today that it is cracking down on marketers that are allegedly bombarding consumers with hundreds of millions of unwanted on...
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Tracking Sensors Invade the Workplace
A few years ago when Bank of America Corp. wanted to study whether face time mattered among its call-center teams, the big bank asked about 90 workers to wear badges...
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Kinect Demo Shows Off Hand Recognition, Multitouch
Microsoft Research this week showed off a demo application that allows for Kinect to recognize multi-touch gestures.
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Attacks Hit, but Don't Break, New Sha-3 Candidate
Depite a recent collision attack, the SHA-3 Secure Hash Algorithm implementation is still a long way from being broken.
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Graphene Antennas Would Enable Terabit Wireless Downloads
A proposed wireless antenna made from graphene could enable terabit-per-second transfer speeds at short ranges.
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New Spec Tool to Id Most Energy-Efficient Servers
A new toolkit can help guide the selection of the most energy-efficient server to meet specific needs.
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Training Next-Gen Data Superheroes
Data science programs are gaining popularity as colleges and universities focus on preparing a new generation of data specialists to handle big data.
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Fashion Statement: Designer Creates Line of Drone-Proof Garments to Protect Privacy
As the U.S. government draws up plans to use surveillance drones in domestic airspace, opposition to what many consider an unwarranted and significant invasionprivacy...
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The Father of All Men Is 340,000 Years Old
Albert Perry carried a secret in his DNA: a Y chromosome so distinctive that it reveals new information about the origin of our species.
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