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Medical Device Hack Attacks May Kill, Researchers Warn
Karen Sandler has a big heart. And that's not just because she is head of the Gnome Foundation—a non-profit community group dedicated to making and giving away...
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Demand For Linux Skills Sets a New Record This Month
People with Linux skills and experience have a good chance of finding a Linux job, or landing a better position.
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Programming Project Comes to Primary Schools
A volunteer project in the United Kingdom is writing session plans for teaching the basics of computer programming to children between the ages of 10 and 11.
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Cassini Successfully Flies Over Enceladus
Cassini flew by Enceladus at an altitude of about 46 miles (74 kilometers). This flyby was designed primarily for the ion and neutral mass spectrometer to analyze...
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Ghent niversity and Imec Report Open Source Software Release of Ipkiss
Researchers at the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center and Ghent University recently launched IPKISS, a generic and modular open source software framework for...
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Simulating Tomorrow's Chips
Most computer chips today have anywhere from four to 10 separate cores, or processing units, which can work in parallel, increasing the chips' efficiency. But the...
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Novel Coding Technique Patented By A*star Researchers
A*STAR Data Storage Institute researchers have developed an algorithm for correcting errors that occur when information is stored and read out incorrectly.
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Toward a Modular Defense Against Hackers
Lehigh University professor Gang Tan has developed automated techniques to scan for errors in large software systems.
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The Technology That Allowed the Titanic Survivors to Survive
More than 1,500 people died in the sinking of the Titanic, but more than 700 survived. Those who did owed their escape to the newest communications technology of...
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Web Freedom Faces Geatest Threat Ever, Warns Google's Sergey Brin
The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the Internet three decades ago are under greater threat than ever, according to...
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Quantum Computing: Is It Possible, and Should You Care?
What is a quantum computer and when can I have one?
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Pentagon Eyes Augmented Reality Displays
The Defense Department has reportedly ordered augmented-reality displays from startup Innovega, only a week after Google disclosed its own augmented-reality project...
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Secrets of App Store Revealed By Artificial Life Forms
University College London researchers Soo Ling Lim and Peter Bentley have developed a simulation of the Apple App Store to study how it works.
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Webrtc Puts Video Chats All in the Browser
The Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC) standard is expected to gain widespread use once it is mature, according to technology observers.
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A Quantum Network Built with Two Atoms and Fiber Optic Cable
In an ordinary computer network, data in the form of binary numbers are transferred from one machine (node) to another via some sort of electronic signal, either...
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Israel's Rocket-Hunting Ace Got His Start Playing Warcraft
While many of the boys in Idan Yahya's high school class were buffing up and preparing themselves for selection into elite combat units, this gawky teenager was...
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Mu Researchers Find Identical Dna Codes in Plant Species Providing Insights Into Plant and Animal Evolution
University of Missouri researchers recently solved a biological mystery by using a computer algorithm to find identical DNA sequences in different plant and animal...
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