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Apple Loophole Gives Developers Access to Photos
Application developers for Apple's mobile devices, already under fire for taking users' address book information without their knowledge, now are being accused...
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Mit Takes Aim at Secure, Self-Healing Cloud
MIT researchers are studying how to build a cloud computing infrastructure that recognizes and eliminates a cyberattack under normal operating procedures.
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Html5 Still Taking Shape
An unusual alignment of technology giants has embraced HTML5 as a cross-browser, cross-device development and delivery platform.
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Colleges Are rged to Cooperate to Bring More Women and Minorities Into Science
EducationCounsel and the American Association for the Advancement of Science recently offered a plan for producing more science and engineering graduates by bringing...
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Bank Customers Favor Birthdate Pins
The patterns that bank customers typically follow when choosing a four-digit PIN code gives hackers a 9 percent chance of correctly guessing their ATM code, according...
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What Should Apple Do with Its Cash?
Apple's soaring with the market Tuesday, topping $530 per share. Not only is Apple soaring in the stock market, the company is also sitting on $98 billion in cash—a...
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Tiny 3D Chips
Microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS, are small devices with huge potential. Typically made of components less than 100 microns in size—the diameter of a human...
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Google Web Grows in City
Google Inc. has dramatically expanded its presence in Manhattan in the past year, adding roughly 750 people to its outpost in 2011 in the most prominent example...
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Leap Year Blamed For Hicaps Stumble
Today's extra day in February has caused the payment system used by the health industry to crash, preventing 150,000 customers from using private health care cards...
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Nasa Pinning Down Where 'here' Is Better Than Ever
Before our Global Positioning System navigation devices can tell us where we are, the satellites that make up the GPS need to know exactly where they are.
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Garmin Finds a New Direction
In the pantheon of seemingly obsolete technologies, automobile navigation devices might seem ready to join laser discs and pagers.
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World's Most Massive Supercomputer Needed For Colossal Space Telescope
The International Center for Radio Astronomy Research is working with the Canadian Astronomical Data Center to develop systems that will work with the Square Kilometer...
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Nist Cybersecurity Center Tackles Public And Private Threats
The U.S. NIST has partnered with Maryland and Montgomery County, Md., to create the National Cybersecurity Center for Excellence, where NIST researchers will work...
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Drexel Engineering Research Brings Seven Adult-Sized Humanoid Robots Together in the .s. For the First Time
Drexel University recently celebrated National Engineers Week by presenting seven adult-sized humanoid robots made by the HUBO Lab.
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Cryptosystems Showing Signs of 'wear and Tear'
It's been an interesting year in the cryptography world, with new attacks on several algorithms, continued problems with hash functions, and the recent research...
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Software Helps Improve Software
KIT researchers have developed the PALLADIO simulation tool, which analyzes a program's structure in advance and predicts the need for resources and limitations...
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Did the Ap Just Declare War on News Aggregators?
Like virtually every other traditional news entity, the Associated Press newswire has been under pressure for some time from digital media. But this disruptionthe...
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Stem, Gender Parity, and Faculty Retention
Universities retain and promote men and women at similar rates in STEM departments, except for mathematics, according to a new study. However, the odds that any...
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