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Minister: Iran Ready to Repel Enemies' Cyber Attacks
Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi underscored on Thursday that the country is completely ready for defending its sensitive facilities against enemies'...
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Next Cameras Come Into View
Scientists at Duke University have built an experimental camera that allows the user—after a photo is taken—to zoom in on portions of the image in extraordinary...
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Research Reveals Why Spammers Claim They're Nigerian
Most of us know the signs: stilted English, "Dear Sir/Madam," a particular fondness for exclamation points.
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Mozilla Thimble Makes Html Coding Easy
Mozilla recently launched Thimble, an HTML tool designed to make it easy for novices to create Web sites.
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HTML5 Leads a Web Revolution
Propelled by a proliferation of mobile devices and social networks, an enhanced family of Web specifications is bringing new power to developers and new capabilities...
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.S., Israel Developed Flame Computer Virus to Slow Iranian Nuclear Efforts, Officials Say
The United States and Israel jointly developed a sophisticated computer virus nicknamed Flame that collected intelligence in preparation for cyber-sabotage aimed...
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Bravely Going Where Pixar Animation Tech Has Never Gone
As people, we understand instinctively what flowing hair looks like. Or the way layers of clothes move on someone's body, or how water would splash when a bear...
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The Highly Productive Habits of Alan Turing
June 23 marks the 100th birthday of Alan Turing. If I had to name five people whose personal efforts led to the defeat of Nazi Germany, the English mathematician...
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Algorithm Beats Jigsaw-Solving Record
Cornell University's Andrew Gallagher has developed an algorithm that set a jigsaw puzzle-solving record by sorting through 10,000 pieces in 24 hours, surpassing...
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War With Friends: Pentagon Eyes a Drone App Store
The U.S. military has dozens of different types of drones in its arsenal. Each one has its own unique controller. And each of those various controllers flies a...
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You For Sale: Mapping, and Sharing, the Consumer Genome
It knows who you are. It knows where you live. It knows what you do.
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Google Reports 'alarming' Rise in Government Censorship Requests
Western governments, including the United States, appear to be stepping up efforts to censor Internet search results and YouTube videos, according to a "transparency...
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New Software Forecasts Noise Levels in a Street
University of Granada researchers are using neural networks to help predict and analyze urban noise.
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'No-Sleep Energy Bugs' Drain Smartphone Batteries
Purdue University researchers have proposed a method for automatically detecting software glitches in smartphones known as "no-sleep energy bugs," which can completely...
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Honeynet Project Tackles Usb-Carried Malware Like Flame
The Honeynet Project has launched an initiative to build technology that traps malware spread from PC to PC via USB storage.
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Why Do Some Programming Languages Live and Others Die?
Researchers at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley are trying to determine why some programming languages become popular while others...
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What Have We Learned: Flame Malware
When the news about the Flame malware first broke several weeks ago, people from all parts of the security community, political world and elsewhere quickly began...
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Inside Google's Plan to Build a Catalog of Every Single Thing, Ever
The ugly truth is that computers don't know anything. They have no common sense.
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