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Tracking Voters' Clicks Online to Try to Sway Them
A few weeks ago, Thomas Goddard, a community college student in Santa Clara, Calif., and a devoted supporter of President Obama, clicked on mittromney.com to check...
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The 'copycat' War: Iran Strikes Back
The growing evidence that Iran was behind a number of recent cyber attacks against Western and Arab institutions has raised concerns in many quarters about how...
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.s. Looks to Replace Human Surveillance with Computers
Computer software programmed to detect and report illicit behavior could eventually replace the fallible humans who monitor surveillance cameras.
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A Spy-Gear Arms Race Transforms Modern Divorce
Danny Lee Hormann suspected his wife was having an affair.
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Automated Meter Reading Systems Make Life Easy For Intruders
Millions of analog meters that measure water, gas, and electricity consumption have been replaced by automated meter reading systems.
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World’s Top Supercomputer Simulates the Human Heart
LLNL researchers say they used Sequoia, currently ranked as the world's most powerful supercomputer, to develop the fastest computer simulation of the human heart...
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Researchers Launch Innovative, Hands-on Online Tool For Science Education
Two computer science graduate students have developed an online tool designed to teach science by requiring students to complete increasingly difficult problems...
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In the Heart of Afghanistan, Entrepreneurs Innovate For Peace
Afghanistan's growing technology industry could be a way to help boost the economy and maintain peace, says INEX IT administrator Mahdi Rezaei, who recently established...
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Study Reveals Impact of Public Dns Services; Researchers Develop Tool to Help
Northwestern University researchers have found that public Domain Name System services could slow down users' Internet connections, and have developed namehelp,...
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The Consequences of Machine Intelligence
The question of what happens when machines get to be as intelligent as and even more intelligent than people seems to occupy many science-fiction writers.
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Rapture of the Nerds: Will the Singularity Turn S Into Gods or End the Human Race?
Hundreds of the world’s brightest minds—engineers from Google and IBM, hedge funds quants, and Defense Department contractors building artificial intelligence—were...
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Robots Get Around By Mimicking Primates
Give a friend directions, such as, "it's across the street from a petrol station, just after a red brick building on the right..." and you can be pretty sure they'll...
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Nasa's Spitzer Sees Light of Lonesome Stars
A new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggests a cause for the mysterious glow of infrared light seen across the entire sky.
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New Finding Could Pave Way to Faster, Smaller Electronics
University of California, Davis researchers are using a new technique to investigate the magnetic properties of gallium manganese arsenide, a type of dilute magnetic...
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Quantum Computing With Recycled Particles
A new demonstration by researchers at the University of Bristol shows how it is possible to recycle the particles inside a quantum computer, so that quantum factoring...
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ahuntsville Students Hope Glove Keyboard Will Revolutionize se of Devices With One Hand
University of Alabama Huntsville engineering students have developed the generally accessible universal nomadic tactile low-power electronic typist keyboard, a...
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S Gov't Agencies Embrace Collaborative Software Development
Several U.S. federal agencies are embracing the collaborative model of open source software development and are releasing code back to the general public.
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Cybercrime: Mobile Changes Everything—and No One's Safe
The FBI recently put out a mobile malware alert, providing us with a sobering reminder of this "evil software" for phones and tablets.
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The End For Keyboards and Mice?
Apple's iPhone and its rivals may have introduced touchscreens to the masses, but now a raft of technologies promise to change the way we interact with computers...
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