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Minister: Iran Should Be Ready to Counter Any Possible Cyber Attack
Iranian Energy Minister Majid Namjou has said that the enemies are making every effort to create disruption in software and hardware systems of Iranian governmental...
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Flash: Crippled But Alive... For Now
Today, Adobe confirmed that it's extinguishing the Flash Player plug-in for mobile devices.
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Irobot Ceo: Enough with the Gimmick 'bots
It's no surprise that uber-geek and iRobot CEO Colin Angle is a Star Wars fan.
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Supreme Court Sees Shades of 1984 in Unchecked Gps Tracking
A number of Supreme Court justices invoked the specter of Big Brother while hearing arguments Tuesday over whether the police may secretly attach GPS devices...
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Insights From Spinning Samples
University of Texas Center for Analytical Ultracentrifugation of Macromolecular Assemblies director Borries Demeler has developed UltraScan, software for use with...
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Supercomputers Accelerate Development of Advanced Materials
Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and MIT have launched the Materials Project, which aims to accelerate the process for finding new materials...
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Yahoo! Mixes 'Cocktails' Web Development Frameworks
Yahoo! recently introduced Cocktails, a set of Web development frameworks for simplifying the creation and deployment of Web applications.
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Computer Science Professor Finds Yelp Leak
A security leak in the mobile version of Yelp gave Web site visitors access to reviewers' personal information, according to social networking and Internet economics...
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Nasa Captures New Images of Large Asteroid Passing Earth
NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. has captured new radar images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth.
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Justices Weigh Privacy vs. Gps Bugs
In a case that questions the Constitution's meaning in light of modern surveillance technology, the Supreme Court will consider Tuesday whether police need a...
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Why Can't Americans Vote Online?
Tuesday is Election Day in the United States, and although the mostly state and local races won't stir the same passions as next year's presidential contest,...
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It Started Digital Wheels Turning
Researchers in Britain are about to embark on a 10-year, multimillion-dollar project to build a computer—but their goal is neither dazzling analytical power nor...
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Researchers High On Cloud Robotics
The goal of cloud robotics is to enable robots to perform data-intensive functions, like image processing and voice recognition, by offloading the vast amounts...
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Poor Penmanship Spells Job Security For Post Office's Scribble Specialists
A man in Emden, Mo., recently mailed a letter that he had addressed, in a scribble, to somebody in "Shelhjreille, Mo." That's the way his handwriting made it...
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Google Changes Search Algorithm, Trying to Make Results More Timely
Many Google search results will be more timely after Google made a significant change to its search algorithm last week that it said would affect about 35% of...
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Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales on the Internet's Future
Censorship is the biggest threat to the development of the Internet, according to Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales.
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Open Data Initiative Moves Into the World of Consumers' Personal Data
The Open Data initiative has launched a project in Britain to assist businesses in returning personal data to consumers.
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Socialbots Used By Researchers to 'steal' Facebook Data
University of British Columbia researchers were able to collect 46,500 email addresses and 14,500 home addresses from Facebook by using socialbots.
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A Kaist Research Team Has Developed a Fully Functional Flexible Memory
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology researchers have developed a fully functional and flexible non-volatile resistive random access memory in which...
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