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Intel-McAfee Deal Bets on Building Security Into Hardware
Intel Corp. agreed to buy security-software specialist McAfee Inc. Thursday for $7.68 billion, a surprise transaction that underscores the company's determination...
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Daniel Spielman Wins 2010 Rolf Nevanlinna Prize
Daniel Spielman of Yale University, New Haven, CT, has been chosen for the 2010 Rolf Nevanlinna Prize "for smoothed analysis of Linear Programming, algorithms...
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The Future of Interfaces Is Mobile, Screen-Less and Invisible
Google's Android developer advocate Reto Meier recently described where computer interfaces are headed, predicting that in five years there will be widely available...
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Virtual Reality Used to Study Haiti, Baja Earthquakes
University of California, Davis researchers are using the virtual reality equipment to study earthquake damage and predict whether faults are likely to move again...
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Wikileaks Encryption se Offers 'legal Challenge'
A novel use of encryption by whistle-blowing website Wikileaks could "challenge the legal system for years to come," according to an influential observer of the...
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Computer Model Advances Climate Change Research
Scientists can now study climate change in far more detail with powerful new computer software. The Community Earth System Model will be one of the primary climate...
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Nsf Awards $10m to Develop Computing Techniques For Assessing Child Behavior
A team led by the Georgia Institute of Technology has received a $10 million award from the U.S. National Science Foundation to apply computer science to the analysis...
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Dual-Core Smartphones on the Horizon
Smartphones with dual-core Arm processors could add faster processing, video capabilities.
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A Surfboard Gets an Onboard Computer
Computers are everywhere these days—even on surfboards. University of California, San Diego mechanical engineering undergraduates outfitted a surfboard with a...
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Atom Images Raise Quantum Computer Hopes
Fast quantum computers made of atoms trapped by beams of light could be a step closer, thanks to the first images of the individual atoms in such a grid.
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What Does 'p vs. Np' Mean For the Rest of Us?
A proposed "proof" is probably a bust—but even failed attempts can advance computer science.
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New Facebook Location Feature Sparks Privacy Concerns
Moments after Facebook introduced a new feature called Facebook Places on Wednesday that allows its users to share their location and find their friends, advocates...
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How Canadian 'science Fiction' Drives Subway Trains Abroad
Inside a north Toronto office building, rows of bulky computers operate virtual subway systems half a world away in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Dubai, managing...
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Mobile Flaw Could Cloak Clicks
Stanford University researchers have found that mobile websites are extremely vulnerable to attacks from malicious sites using a technique known as tapjacking,...
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Clothing to Power Personal Computers
Researchers at the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science are developing technology that would enable individuals to power electronic...
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Feds Strengthen Cybersecurity Workforce Plans
Representatives from both the public and the private sector who attended a recent cybersecurity conference said that progress has been made in developing and executing...
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Tell Me Where You Are and I'll Tell You What I See
Fondazione Bruno Kessler researchers have developed a system that can analyze a mobile phone-produced photo and generate information about the location.
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Safe Travels
University of Texas at San Antonio researchers have developed SMall Aircraft Risk Technology (SMART), software that can run thousands of simulations on a given...
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