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A Missile-Defense System That Actually Works?
The fighting between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza strip over the last few days is the latest round of violence in a region that has been torn apart by a...
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Scientists Find Cheaper Way to Ensure Internet Security
Scientists at Toshiba and Cambridge University have used an advanced photodetector to extract weak photons from the torrents of light pulses carried by fiber-optic...
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Two-Ton Witch Computer Gets a Reboot
The world's oldest original working digital computer, the Witch, has been restored after a three-year effort and was recently put on display at The National Museum...
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In Fairfax County, the Classroom Is a (cyber) Battlefield
Thousands of students across the U.S. recently participated in the opening round of the CyberPatriot challenge, the premier high school cyberwarfare competition...
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College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All
Teaching Introduction to Sociology is almost second nature to Mitchell Duneier, a professor at Princeton: he has taught it 30 times, and a textbook he co-wrote...
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Why the Frontiers of Biology Might Be Inside a Computer Chip
When David Harel started the experiment, the petri dish of mouse cells looked just like any other.
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Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum for Now
Scientists working on NASA's six-wheeled rover on Mars have a problem. But it's a good problem.
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Two-Tonne Witch Computer Gets a Reboot
The world's oldest original working digital computer is going on display at The National Museum of Computing in Buckinghamshire.
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Feel the Disruption
Apple has been a leader in digital revolution disruption, and its iPhones and iPads aren't finished marginalizing PCs or making today's household and industrial...
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An Amazon Engineer Had a Little Idea That Turned Into a Billion-Dollar Business
Once upon a time, Amazon was a dot-com-era technology company best known for selling books.
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What Goes Down Must Come Back Up
For most of the past two decades, the NASA and European Topex/Poseidon, Jason-1 and Jason-2 satellites have tracked the gradual rise of the world's ocean in response...
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Microsoft Hires Jeannette Wing to Head Microsoft Research International
Jeannette Wing, a leading figure in computer science research, will join Microsoft Research in January 2013 as vice president, head of Microsoft Research International...
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Toyota Testing Smart Cars That Talk to Each Other and to the Road
Toyota is testing smart cars that talk to each other and to the roads on the 700 MHz band with the goal of reducing traffic accidents.
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Do We Need Cyber Cops For Cars?
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has yet to devise standard safety guidelines for automobile electronics systems, though industry guidelines...
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How Metadata Brought Down CIA Boss David Petraeus
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency director David Petraeus was brought down by metadata, which is not covered by the Stored Communications Act.
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Enhancing Breast Cancer Detection
Federal Fluminense University's Tiago Borchartt and colleagues have developed software to improve imaging with an infrared, thermal camera for the early detection...
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Blue Waters Opts Out of Top500
The NCSA Blue Waters system is one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, but it won't appear on the TOP500 list—nor will it be taking part in the HPC Challenge...
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Bug Repellent For Supercomputers Proves Effective
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have developed a highly scalable, lightweight tool that has been used to debug a program running more than one...
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