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Ford's Open-Source Kit Brings Era of Smart Car Apps
Ford Motor Co. recently released OpenXC, an open source hardware and software toolkit that will allow the hacker community to experiment with the computer systems...
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Google to sers: Here's How We Deal with Requests For Your Information
What happens if the local police, the FBI or any government agency asks Google for information about your Gmail or YouTube account?
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Ito: Think Twice About Immortality and the Singularity
Ray Kurzweil's vision of the "singularity"—when nanobots make humans immortal and computer progress is so fast that the future becomes profoundly unknowable—is...
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Will Smart Machines Create a World Without Work?
They seem right out of a Hollywood fantasy, and they are: Cars that drive themselves have appeared in movies like "I, Robot" and the television show "Knight Rider...
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Ayasdi: Stanford Math Begets a Data Company
Like most of his peers, Gunnar Carlsson spends his time thinking about hairy, theoretical math problems.
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U.s. Homeland Chief: Cyber 9/11 Could Happen 'imminently'
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned on Thursday that a major cyber attack is a looming threat and could have the same sort of impact as last year's...
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Neil Degrasse Tyson: Science Funding Can 'guarantee Your Economic Future'
Neil deGrasse Tyson came to Washington on Wednesday to deliver the science-specific version of President Barack Obama's second inaugural address.
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IBM Predicts Cognitive Systems As New Computing Wave
At year's end, IBM selects a new innovation that has the potential to change the world.
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Goodbye Silicon, Hello Dna. The Future of Data Storage?
One night a few years ago, two biologists sat in a bar in Hamburg, discussing DNA.
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Isis Plays Key Role in Efforts to Revolutionize Military Manufacturing
Vanderbilt University's Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) is helping develop the engineering software used in the U.S. Marine Corps' competition...
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Google Report Reveals Continued Rise in .S. Government Requests for Data
Google has revealed the full scale of the U.S. government's use of controversial legislation that bypasses judicial approval to access the online information of...
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London School Wins National Code Breaking Challenge
Students from the City of London School have won Britain's National Cipher Challenge. More than 6,200 schoolchildren from 725 schools across the country participated...
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Applying Search Engine Techniques to Physics Data, Yandex Partners p with Cern
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, is perhaps best-known for two things: (probably) locating the elusive Higgs Boson, and being the birthplace...
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Military Moves Closer to Truly Autonomous Drones
Imagine a flying machine equipped with bombs and missiles, navigating the skies stealthily without human control.
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Nasa's Veteran Mars Rover Ready to Start 10th Year
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, one of the twin rovers that bounced to airbag-cushioned safe landings on Mars nine years ago this week, is currently...
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Storing Data in Individual Molecules
Moore's law—the well-known doubling of computer chips' computational power every 18 months or so—has been paced by a similarly steady increase in the storage capacity...
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Facebook's Other Big Disruption
Facebook made a potentially game-changing announcement.
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Dod Looking to 'jump the Gap' Into Adversaries' Closed Networks
Iran's uranium enrichment facility at Natanz may have had one of the most secure computer systems in the world.
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Samsung's Secret Weapon in the Mobile Wars: Tizen
You've probably never heard of Tizen, but the companies behind it are some of the most recognizable brands in the tech industry.
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