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A Texas Hold 'em Tournament For Ais
This year's Annual Computer Poker Competition includes three poker games, including heads-up limit, heads-up no limit, and three-player limit Texas Hold 'Em.
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Will Wright Wants to Make a Game Out of Life Itself
For almost 30 years, Will Wright’s creations have attracted people who would never have played videogames. He's also managed the trick of developing games that...
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Top Five 'earth as Art' Winners
During a span of 40 years, since 1972, the Landsat series of Earth observation satellites has become a vital reference worldwide for understanding scientific issues...
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Minister Stresses Iran's Ability to Confront All Spy Malwares
Iran's Minister of Communication and Information Technology Reza Taqipour announced that Iran has successfully confronted sophisticated spy malwares and thwarted...
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In First, Software Emulates Lifespan of Entire Organism
Scientists at Stanford University and the J. Craig Venter Institute have developed the first software simulation of an entire organism, a humble single-cell bacterium...
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Gps Hijacking Catches Feds, Drone Makers Off Guard
On June 19, when University of Texas researchers successfully hijacked a drone by "spoofing" it— giving it bad GPS coordinates–they showed the Department of Homeland...
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Innovation Promises to Cut Massive Power Use at Big Data Companies in a Flash
Princeton University researchers have developed SSDAlloc, software that could help organizations use a type of memory in their servers that requires much less energy...
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Would German-Style Apprenticeships Work in the .s.?
In a world of high youth unemployment, where the supply of skilled labor often fails to match employer demand, Germany believes help can be found in its Dual Vocational...
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Autopilots Take to the Ground
For decades, autopilots have controlled how planes climb, cruise and descend in the air.
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Newest U.s. Counterterrorism Strategy: Trolling
In the decade since 9/11, the U.S. government has used a wide variety of tactics against terrorists.
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Microsoft, Juniper, Others in Coding Consortium Issue Guidelines For Safer Applications
The Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code recently issued "Practical Security Stories and Security Tasks for Agile Development Environments," a white...
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Aclu: 'reasonable Suspicion' Not Good Enough For Gps Tracking
If you're a student of the privacy and tech law worlds (or you just read Ars) then you're probably familiar with last year's Supreme Court decision, Jones v. United...
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Coning In: New Ways to Tap Old Data Boost Hurricane Forecast Accuracy
Despite advances in weather prediction technology, meteorologists must still qualify any hurricane forecasts with a "cone of uncertainty," which depicts just how...
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Study: Wikileaked Data Can Predict Insurgent Attacks
Insurgencies are amongst the hardest conflicts to predict. Insurgents can be loosely organized, split into factions, and strike from out of nowhere. But now researchers...
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Western Media Seeking to Play Down Iran's Cyber Capability By New Virus Story
The western media sought to play down Iran's cyber and computer software capability by releasing hundreds of reports on the discovery of a new computer virus and...
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The Brave New World of Tomorrow's Tablets
Tablets with paper-thin screens that can be folded and tucked into your back pocket, artificial intelligence and augmented reality—the stuff of science fiction...
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Apple Granted 'the Mother of All Smartphone Software Patents'
Both sides of the smartphone wars agree that the 25 patents granted Apple on Tuesday contain some powerful legal weapons.
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Mahdi, the Messiah, Found Infecting Systems in Iran, Israel
Who knew that when the Messiah arrived to herald the Day of Judgment he'd first root through computers to steal documents and record conversations?
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The Moore's Law Moon Shot
It is seemingly a fact of life that every new generation of computing gadget will be significantly more powerful than the one before, but a looming technical roadblock...
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