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Aclu: 'reasonable Suspicion' Not Good Enough For Gps Tracking
If you're a student of the privacy and tech law worlds (or you just read Ars) then you're probably familiar with last year's Supreme Court decision, Jones v. United...
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Coning In: New Ways to Tap Old Data Boost Hurricane Forecast Accuracy
Despite advances in weather prediction technology, meteorologists must still qualify any hurricane forecasts with a "cone of uncertainty," which depicts just how...
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Study: Wikileaked Data Can Predict Insurgent Attacks
Insurgencies are amongst the hardest conflicts to predict. Insurgents can be loosely organized, split into factions, and strike from out of nowhere. But now researchers...
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Artificial Football Manager Hoping to Top the Fantasy Football League
Researchers at the University of Southampton plan to participate in the English Fantasy Football League with an artificial soccer manager.
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Frog Calls Inspire a New Algorithm For Wireless Networks
Polytechnic University of Catalonia researchers have developed an algorithm based on the desynchronized form of calling used by Japanese tree frogs that assigns...
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Your Laptop Can Now Analyze Big Data
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed GraphChi, a framework for running large-scale computations on one personal computer.
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Can We Fix Computer Science Education in America?
Computer science is the only one of the science, technology, engineering, and math fields that has seen a decrease in student participation during the last 20 years...
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Western Media Seeking to Play Down Iran's Cyber Capability By New Virus Story
The western media sought to play down Iran's cyber and computer software capability by releasing hundreds of reports on the discovery of a new computer virus and...
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The Brave New World of Tomorrow's Tablets
Tablets with paper-thin screens that can be folded and tucked into your back pocket, artificial intelligence and augmented reality—the stuff of science fiction...
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Apple Granted 'the Mother of All Smartphone Software Patents'
Both sides of the smartphone wars agree that the 25 patents granted Apple on Tuesday contain some powerful legal weapons.
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Mahdi, the Messiah, Found Infecting Systems in Iran, Israel
Who knew that when the Messiah arrived to herald the Day of Judgment he'd first root through computers to steal documents and record conversations?
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The Moore's Law Moon Shot
It is seemingly a fact of life that every new generation of computing gadget will be significantly more powerful than the one before, but a looming technical roadblock...
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Researchers Create Highly Conductive and Elastic Conductors Using Silver Nanowires
North Carolina State University researchers have developed highly conductive and elastic conductors made from silver nanoscale wires, which they say can be used...
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App That Allows Deaf People to Verbally Communicate Wins Imagine Cup
First place in the 2012 Imagine Cup went to a Ukrainian university team that developed an application that enables deaf people to verbally communicate using sensory...
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Faster Simulation--Award for New Method
Dominik Schillinger was honored with the John Argyris Award during the recent World Congress on Computational Mechanics for developing a method for facilitating...
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New Computer Exam Tested For the First Time By niversity Students
The Linux Professional Institute recently tested its Linux Essentials exam program for the first time on students from Birmingham City University's School of Computing...
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Gov. Cuomo Uses Blackberry Pin-to-Pin Messaging System to Contact Key Staffers When They Can't Talk on the Phone
There's one phrase Gov. Cuomo never hears: "You’ve got mail!"
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Five Reasons Why It's A Great Time to Major in Computer Science
While computer science always seems to be an excellent career choice, this happens to be a particularly great time to pursue a CS major, say experts.
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In-Q-Tel: The Cia's Tax-Funded Player In Silicon Valley
For more than a decade the CIA has run its own venture capital fund called In-Q-Tel. It was founded in the late 1990s when the CIA was drowning in data and didn't...
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