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The CIA and Jeff Bezos Bet on Quantum Computing
Inside a blocky building in a Vancouver suburb, across the street from a dowdy McDonald's, is a place chilled colder than anywhere in the known universe.
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A Nobel For Teasing Out the Secret Life of Atoms
Two physicists who developed techniques to peer in on the most intimate relations between light and matter won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday.
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The Mouse Faces Extinction as Computer Interaction Evolves
Students today are part of the first generation growing up with a computer interface that does not rely on a keyboard and mouse.
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App Protects Facebook sers From Hackers
University of California, Riverside researchers have developed MyPageKeeper, an application for detecting spam and malware posts on Facebook users' walls, which...
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IETF Starts Work on Next-Generation HTTP Standard
The Internet Engineering Task Force is working on the next generation of Hypertext Transfer Protocol, says Mark Nottingham, chairman of the IETF HTTP working group...
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Nsf-Ncsa Study Probes Relationship Between Industrial Applications and nderlying Science
In an interview, U.S. NCSA director Merle Giles discusses the findings of a study to determine whether improvements in the science inside applications and other...
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An Operating System in the Cloud
Tsinghua University researchers have developed TransOS, a cloud computing operating system that stores its code in the cloud, which enables a connection from a...
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Supreme Court Terminates Warrantless Electronic Spying Case
The Supreme Court closed a 6-year-old chapter Tuesday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s bid to hold the nation’s telecoms liable for allegedly providing the...
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Even Ray Kurzweil Is Nervous About a Future with Hyper-Intelligent Machines
Ray Kurzweil is looking forward to the year 2029.
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China 'strongly Opposes' U.s. Report About Chinese Telecom Firms
China's Commerce Ministry announced Tuesday it "strongly opposes" a report that alleged Chinese telecommunication companies Huawei Technologies Inc. and ZTE Corp...
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Automated Translation of Sign Language Into Text Is Now a Reality
University of Aberdeen researchers are developing technology that can automatically translate sign language into text.
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To Keep Passwords Safe From Hackers, Just Break Them Into Bits
RSA researchers have developed a system that splits passwords in two and stores each half in different locations.
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Ou Researchers Implement a Multi-Photon Approach in Quantum Cryptography
Quantum cryptography has the potential to offer unconditional security, but it is limited by its short transmission distance and slow speed.
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Non-Profit ScriptEd NYC Teaches Coding to Underprivileged Students
NYC has launched a pilot program designed to teach computer skills to students from underserved communities.
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U.s. Panel Cites Risks in Chinese Equipment
In the latest development to highlight the sensitive terrain that the United States and China are navigating on economic issues, a House committee issued a blistering...
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Mobile App Puts Brakes on Texting While Driving
Everyone knows that texting while driving kills, but that’s not enough to incentivize many people, especially teens, to keep their eyes on the road. Now a new mobile...
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Quantum Manipulation and Measuring Win Nobel Prize in Physics
The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland for experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual...
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Can We Trust the Code That Increasingly Runs Our Lives?
Imagine how different the first pictures sent from the Mars Rover would have been if there had been a software failure.
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Graphics Chips Are For More Than Just Eye Candy
Chances are there is a graphics chip in your desktop computer, and it is fuelling a revolution.
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