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The Future of Search
Google fellow Amit Singhal and colleagues are working on improving Web search so that Google will understand terms as things with an Internet life and a history...
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In Video-Streaming Rat Race, Fast Is Never Fast Enough
On average, YouTube streams 4 billion hours of video per month.
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Their Apps Track You. Will Congress Track Them?
There are three things that matter in consumer data collection: location, location, location.
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The Future According to Google's Larry Page
When Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP Group, the giant advertising agency, visited Google this past fall, CEO Larry Page sent a car to pick him up at the Rosewood...
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Intel Plans on Controlling Computers With a Dirty Look
Perceptual computing was the focus of Intel researchers at the recent International CES conference. Intel views gestures, voice commands, and facial expressions...
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Berkeley Lab Contemplates Stepping Stone to Exascale Supercomputer
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Berkeley Lab recently began installing Edison, a Cray supercomputer that will exceed two peak petaflops...
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Your Gadgets Are Slowly Breaking the Internet
Ever-mounting numbers of wireless devices are straining Internet capacity, and a number of U.S. labs aim to address this problem, with the overarching challenge...
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U.s. Warns on Java Software As Security Concerns Escalate
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security urged computer users to disable Oracle Corp's Java software, amplifying security experts' prior warnings to hundreds of...
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Nsa Documents on 'perfect Citizen' Program Raise Many More Questions
More than two years after The Wall Street Journal disclosed the Perfect Citizen program, the Electronic Privacy Information Center released NSA documents detailing...
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Leap Motion, Others Look Beyond the Mouse and Keyboard
There was a time when the mouse and keyboard were the two primary ways to interact with a computer. Then came touch screens, and the idea of "natural input" became...
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Mobile Apps Drive Rapid Change in Searches
When the Federal Trade Commission decided last week to close its antitrust investigation of Google without charges, one important factor, though hardly mentioned...
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A Peek Inside China's Internet Giants and Their Massive Scale
Here's the thing about China: It's very, very big.
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At Ces, Chinese Electronics Giants Compete For American Eyes
You’ve heard the complaints. The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is too unwieldy and too outdated for tech titans such as Apple, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft...
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Looking Forward to a Future Internet
The future of the Internet was in doubt heading into December and the World Conference on International Telecommunications. Neither those who want to control the...
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How Delays Propagate Across the U.s. Airport Network
The Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems has simulated how flight delays spread across the U.S. airport network like wildfires.
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Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Meeting
The recent U.S. National Science Foundation Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Principal Investigator Meeting gave NSF an opportunity to build the community of principal...
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F# Foundation: Taking Microsoft's F# Language to a Higher Ground
The recently formed F# Software Foundation maintains a free open source F# code repository which is available to the public free of charge.
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Chattanooga Tests Ultra-Fast System for Disaster Response
Chattanooga, Tenn., will test a system that will run computerized disaster scenarios using a detailed layout of the city, with the goal of training emergency workers...
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How Fast Does 'Virtual Reality' Have to Be to Look Like 'Actual Reality'?
For decades now, virtual reality has been a pipe dream concept, well ahead of the technology needed to realize it.
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