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Virtual Router Smashes Speed Records
Software-driven networking will enable new Internet protocols.
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Scientists Hack Into Cars' Computers
It sounds like a Hollywood movie: cybercriminals in a van use a laptop to hack wirelessly into the computer-controlled systems of the car on the road ahead. In...
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Oracle's Android Lawsuit: A Pandora's Box of Serious Evils
A deeper look at Oracle's legal claims show how an Oracle win or a Google give-in could destroy Android and even open source.
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For Pianist, Software Is Replacing Sonatas
The pianist Robert Taub was puttering around the house one afternoon in 2004 while his teen-age daughter was practicing for a violin lesson—a Schubert sonatina...
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Online Gambling Poses Hacking Risk, Experts Say
Online gambling experts are warning Canadian provinces to brace themselves for hackers, cheats and criminal gangs that target gaming sites. The warning comes...
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Malware Implicated in Fatal Spanair Plane Crash
Authorities investigating the 2008 crash of Spanair flight 5022 have discovered a central computer system used to monitor technical problems in the aircraft was...
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The MIT Roots of Google
Google’s App Inventor, which lets people with no previous programming experience build applications for mobile phones, draws on decades of MIT research.
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How to Create a 'super Password'
Say goodbye to those wimpy, eight-letter passwords. The 12-character era of online security is upon us, according to a report published this week by the Georgia...
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Tech Industry Holds Closed Door Talks on Open Internet
The Information Technology Industry Council, representing leading technology industry firms, recently held a closed-door meeting to discuss the future of the open...
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Nist Is Nearly Ready to Pick the Next Hash Algorithm
Developers of the 14 semifinalist algorithms for the new SHA-3 Secure Hash Algorithm standard will defend their work at a U.S. National Institute of Standards and...
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Adaptive Software
Researchers have developed a prototype platform that promises to support adaptive software capable of automatic contextual reconfiguration. Middleware developed...
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Web Could Be Stylized By New W3c Font Platform
The World Wide Web Consortium's Web Fonts Working Group has launched version 1.0 of the Web Open File Format (WOFF), compression technology that will provide a...
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Virtual Reality You Can Touch
Looking to develop new methods for virtual haptic interaction, ETH Zurich researchers have developed a way to produce virtual copies of real objects, which can...
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Toshiba Claims Data Storage Breakthrough
Toshiba says it has achieved a breakthrough in data storage technology that could lead to hard drives with much higher capacities than are currently available.
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Flawed Proof shers In Era of Wikimath
His prospects of answering one of the biggest questions in mathematics may be fading, but Vinay Deolalikar of Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, California, may...
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.s. Takes Aim at China Cyber Threat
The U.S. for the first time is publicly warning about the Chinese military's use of civilian computer experts in clandestine cyber attacks aimed at American companies...
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Virtual Reality Tackles Tough Questions
Virtual reality is allowing scientists to ask difficult questions about human behaviour that were previously not possible or were thought too unethical.
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Extreme and Green: What Science Needs from Computing
Four participants in the upcoming Kavli Futures Symposium discuss what science needs from computing, how current computing advances are impacting research, and...
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Google Offers Cloud-Based Learning Engine
Providing developers with machine learning on tap could unleash a flood of smarter apps.
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