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How Isps Could Combat Botnets
Convincing Internet service providers to pinpoint infected computers on their networks could eliminate the lion's share of zombie computers responsible for churning...
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Frontier Guides Computing Through the Collision Landscape
Researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) working on the CMS and ATLAS particle detector experiments are using a software system that...
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Your Face Is All You'll Need at an Atm
Waweru Mwangi, director of the Institute of Computer Science and Information Technology at Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta University, demonstrated his Basic Intelligent...
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Computer Science Shows How 'twitter-Bombs' Wield Influence
Wellesley College computer science professor P. Takis Metaxas says "Twitter bombs"—sending many Tweets from a large number of Twitter accounts within a short...
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An Optical Traffic Cop For Rapid Communication
Tel Aviv University's Koby Scheuer has developed a nano-based filtering device using silicon rubber that is designed to enable faster communications over optical...
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Intel Launches Chip For Smartphones, Tablets
Intel on Tuesday announced its long-awaited Atom chip for smartphones and tablets, a crowded market populated by a host of formidable rivals--unlike the PC market...
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Rensselaer Launches $16.75 Million Center To Research Social Cognitive Networks
Funded by the Army Research Lab, the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is dedicated to the emerging discipline...
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer Losing Browser Share
Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) web browser, now accounts for less than 60% of the market, down from 95% at its peak in 2003, according to new figures.
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New Technology Generates Database on Spill Damage
A technology with data from social media is now being used to log the effects of the oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico's north coast. Witnesses' texts, tweets and...
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Redesigning the Web For Touch Screens
Last week, in an essay criticizing Adobe's Flash platform, Apple CEO Steve Jobs drew attention to, among other things, its lack of support for touch--something...
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Intel Labs Finds a Way to Create Routers sing Clustered Servers
Intel Labs says it can reuse or reconfigure commodity type servers and convert them into data center routers. The reused servers are programmable and scalable. ...
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FCC Chairman Genachowski Expected to Leave Broadband Services Deregulated
U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Julius Genachowski wants to keep broadband services deregulated, despite a federal court decision indicating...
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Army of Smartphone Chips Could Emulate the Human Brain
If you have a smartphone, you probably have a slice of Steve Furber's brain in your pocket. By the time you read this, his 1-billion-neuron silicon brain will be...
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Audiences, and Hollywood, Flock to Smartphones
It might be hard to imagine watching "The Office" on a screen no bigger than a business card. But tens of thousands of people--by the most conservative estimate...
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Why Are Computer sers Still Choking on Spam?
Who is actually responsible for sending spam. It might surprise many to learn that the number one source of spam is the United States, according to a new report...
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Complex Software Systems
Researchers from Israel and six EU countries have carried out pioneering work on self-healing software capable of automatically and autonomously detecting, identifying...
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Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer: There's an App For That
IPhone, iPad and Motorola Droid users can now, with the touch of a button, instantly access the Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer office with a new, free app...
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Nanodots Breakthrough May Lead to 'A Library on One Chip'
North Carolina State University's Jay Narayan led a research effort to create a computer chip that has enough memory to store all the information in a library.
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Algorithms Provide a Model of Railway Efficiency
The European Union-funded ARRIVAL project, a collaboration of researchers from seven European countries, has developed algorithms that can optimize planning and...
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