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Smartphone Patent Wars: The Coming Sequel
Billions of dollars are being spent to amass patent arsenals, and lawsuits are flying worldwide.
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Iranian Oil Ministry Discovers Hackers' Target
The Iranian oil ministry's cyber team has identified the main and hidden agenda of the recent cyber attack on the ministry, a senior Iranian official announced...
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Drone se Takes Off on the Home Front
With little public attention, dozens of universities and law-enforcement agencies have been given approval by federal aviation regulators to use unmanned aircraft...
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Papers From Collective Intelligence 2012 Conference Now Online
MIT recently hosted the Collective Intelligence 2012 conference, which gave collective intelligence experts an opportunity to review papers about behavior that...
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The New Science of Online Persuasion
The Web has fundamentally changed the business of advertising in just a few years. So it stands to reason that the process of creating ads is bound to change, too...
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Voting Information Project Takes Aim at Open Data, Social Media
The Pew Center on the States and several technology companies recently launched the Voting Information Project, which enables Foursquare users to receive an "I...
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Nsf, Src Partner on Failure-Resistant Systems
The U.S. National Science Foundation and the Semiconductor Research Corp. recently announced Failure-Resistant Systems, a joint initiative that seeks proposals...
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Could Iran Wage a Cyberwar on the .s.?
Security professionals in both the U.S. government and in private industry have long feared the prospect of a cyberwar with China or Russia, two states capable...
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The World's Five Biggest Cyber Threats
Criminals do not stop at stealing someone's personal data.
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What Will Nasa's Rover of the Future Look Like?
NASA recently announced the formation of the Mars Program Planning Group, which—as its title would suggest—is aimed at getting us back to Mars. The hope is to get...
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A Further Boost For Quantum Cryptography
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid researchers say they have developed an efficient information reconciliation technique for quantum key distribution that could...
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Engineering a Safer World
MIT professor Nancy Leveson recently hosted a workshop to educate more than 250 safety engineering professionals from around the world about System-Theoretic Accident...
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Network Your Stuff: Amateurs Inventing a New Internet
A growing number of computer hobbyists are merging the online and physical worlds in new ways.
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Voyagers' Never-Ending Journey
Exploration is one thing, science another—but they've come together rather nicely in the Voyager mission to the outer planets, outbound for the past 35 years yet...
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Scanning the Brain For Impending Error
University of Arizona researchers are using new technology to predict in advance when people will make a mistake on the standard math section of the College Board's...
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Nasa's Space Apps Competition Takes on Big Ideas
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration recently held its first International Space Apps Challenge, attracting participants from 24 countries for...
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Turing's Rapid Nazi Enigma Code-Breaking Secret Revealed
Two papers written by Alan Turing that detail his mathematical analysis for code breaking now can be viewed on request at Britain's National Archives.
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The Robot Revolution Is Just Beginning
When industrial robots were first introduced in the early 1960s initially on automobile assembly lines—computers were still in their infancy, so the robots were...
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High-Speed Trading: My Laser Is Faster Than Your Laser
According to its New Jersey-based operator, Hibernia Atlantic, the $300 million Project Express will be 5.2 milliseconds faster than the AC-1, with an execution...
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