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Nasa Pulls Off 350-Million-Mile Software Patch
If you think it's tough to keep your computer or smartphone's software updated, try keeping a space robot updated from 350 million miles away.
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How Big Data Became So Big
This has been the crossover year for Big Data—as a concept, as a term, and, yes, as a marketing tool.
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Martian Computing Is Light on Ram, Heavy on Radiation Shielding
NASA's Curiosity Rover has had a historic week on the surface of Mars, executing a flawless landing on the Red Planet and firing up for its mission. But under the...
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NTU Scientist Invents Pocket Living Room TV
NTU researchers have developed Social Cloud TV, which they say is a multi-screen mobile social TV experience that enables users to have video and chat sessions...
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Swiss Scientists Develop Algorithm to Sniff Out the Source of Malware and Spam Attacks
Researchers have developed an algorithm that can find the source of a computer virus, malware, or spam attack by checking only a small percentage of connections...
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Could the New Air Traffic Control System Be Hacked
The Federal Aviation Administration is in the midst of a multibillion-dollar upgrade of the nation's air traffic control system.
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Open Source Project to Get Gadgets Talking Via the Net
More than 5,400 developers have downloaded Webinos, an open source operating system developed with the support of more than 30 organizations that is designed to...
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c San Diego Computer Scientists Explore Secure Browser Design
UCSD researchers say they have developed a new approach to secure browsing design.
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Computer Scientists Reveal How Aquatic Olympic Gold Is Captured--Above and Below the Surface
NYU researchers followed Olympic swimmers and divers during their training sessions and used motion-capture techniques to reveal their movement above and below...
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What's Next For Nasa? 10 Wild Newly Funded Projects
What's next for NASA now that Curiosity has touched down on Mars? For a sneak peek into what the space agency has in store, take a look at the 28 proposals for...
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Cheap Chips Herald Future of Wave and Pay
Small, cheap smart-tag devices that are printed as digital circuits in rolls like newspapers could help kickstart the wireless payment industry. The devices, known...
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The Campaign to Digitize Your Wallet Is Intensifying
Last week, Starbucks joined forces with Square, a technology start-up that lets you pay for things with a smartphone. Coming from a company whose cafes seem to...
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New Technique Improves Rendering of Smoke, Dust and Participating Media
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Technical Institute, Disney Research, and the University of Montreal say they have developed a new and efficient way to simulate how...
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Google Releases New Web Development Aids
Google has released Leak Finder, a tool for finding memory leaks in JavaScript code and a library written in Dart for accessing popular Google APIs.
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IBM Claims Spintronics Breakthrough With 'Waltzing Electrons' Observations
A team from IBM and ETH Zurich University have directly mapped the formation of a spin helix in a semiconductor for the first time, a development that could lead...
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Prototype System Goes After Dns-Based Botnets
Researchers at the University of Georgia and the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed Pleiades, a prototype system that can better detect Domain Name...
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Success of Wpi’s Robotics Program Inspires Other niversities
The success of the nation’s first undergrad robotics engineering program has inspired two universities that are now experiencing the very same challenges.
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Analysis Reveals Flame Malware's Process Injection Tricks
As researchers continue to pull apart the Gauss malware code, looking for spreading mechanisms and infection vectors, there is still some work being done on Gauss's...
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Reprogrammed Mars Rover Getting Ready to Roll
NASA's Curiosity rover is almost fully reprogrammed for its two-year, $2.5 billion science mission on Mars, and mission managers say it should be ready to take...
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