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A Made-to-Measure Social Network For the Academic World
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne researchers have developed Graaasp, an academic social network that responds to the specific needs of the academic world...
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Python Bindings Snake Into Global Arrays Toolkit
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers have expanded the Global Arrays Toolkit to include full support for the Python computer programming language.
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E-Voting Gets Almost nanimous Praise, Study Finds
A recent Delvinia report could lead to the introduction of Internet voting across all levels of government in Canada.
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Will Super Wi-Fi Live p to Its Name?
It's likely that a few years from now, Americans' laptops, smart phones, and other wireless devices will be able to get online using "Super Wi-Fi," a new standard...
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There Is Life on Mars! Just One Catch
NASA's Planetary Protection Officer Catharine A. Conley says that we've already contaminated the Red Planet with organisms from Earth.
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The 'worm' That Could Bring Down the Internet
For the past three years, a highly encrypted computer worm called Conficker has been spreading rapidly around the world. As many as 12 million computers have...
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Software Developer Shows Face-Swapping in Realtime
New software can now replace a face with another in real time.
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Supercomputer Readies For Action
Yale University recently received the Bulldog O Omega supercomputer from an undisclosed government agency, and it is now almost ready for use by university researchers...
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Ping-Pong With Electrons
A surface acoustic wave has enabled scientists at the University of Cambridge to gain greater control over how electrons move from one place to another.
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Steve Lionel on Why Fortran Still Matters
For Intel technical staff member Steve Lionel there is no question about the continued relevance of the 54-year-old Fortran programming language.
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Data Mining ncovers New Connections Between Health Problems
Researchers in Denmark are using data mining techniques to uncover new connections between health problems as seemingly unrelated as migraines and hair loss.
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Drone Makers Seek Out New Targets
Almost a century after the first pilot-less plane was test launched from the back of a truck in the English village of Upavon, unmanned aircraft vehicles, or...
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Dhs Thinks Some Scada Problems Are Too Big To Call "bug"
The Stuxnet worm may be the most famous piece of malicious software ever written. When it was first detected, a little over a year ago, the worm sounded a warning...
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Security Expert: .s. 'leading Force' Behind Stuxnet
German cybersecurity expert Ralph Langner warns that U.S. utility companies are not yet prepared to deal with the threat presented by the Stuxnet computer worm...
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New Mathematical Model to Enable Web Searches For Meaning
University of Hertfordshire computer scientist Daoud Clarke has developed a mathematical model based on a theory of meaning that could revolutionize artificial...
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'stampede's' Comprehensive Capabilities to Bolster .s. Open Science Computational Resources
The University of Texas at Austin's Texas Advanced Computing Center announced that it will deploy and support Stampede, a new supercomputer that will offer data...
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Net Neutrality Rules Published, Lawsuits Soon to Follow
The FCC has finally officially published long-delayed rules prohibiting cable, DSL, and wireless internet companies from blocking Web sites and requiring them...
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Software Upgrades Could Produce Self-Tuning Wireless Access Points, Researchers Say
University of Wisconsin, Madison researchers have developed Airshark, software that enables wireless access points to automatically detect radio-frequency interference...
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