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Researchers Crack Online Encryption System
An online encryption technique widely used to safeguard email, e-commerce, and other sensitive Internet transactions is crackable, according to a study by U.S....
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How Networks of Biological Cells Solve Distributed Computing Problems
Distributed computing is all the rage these days. The idea is to break down computational tasks into convenient chunks and distribute them across a network to a...
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Official Underlines Iran's Capability to Counter Cyber Attacks Against N. Facilities
Head of Iran's civil defense organization General Gholam Reza Jalali stressed that the Iranian experts and engineers are capable of countering the enemies' cyber...
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Linux Job Openings on the Rise: Dice Report
Dice reports that although Linux skills are in demand, finding talent is difficult for many organizations, which has boosted salaries and bonuses for Linux professionals...
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Chemist Applies Google Software to Molecular World
Washington State University researchers have adapted Google's PageRank software to create moleculaRnetworks, a program that enables scientists to virtually study...
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pgrading the Hurricane Forecast
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have developed a hurricane forecasting system that improves...
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Kenya Ict Board and CMU Launch International Software Standard
Researchers at the Kenya ICT Board and Carnegie Mellon University launched Chipuka, a certification program for Kenya's software developers in the country that...
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Commercial Drones: A Dogfight at the Faa
Last fall, Russ Freeman's successful business shooting commercial aerial photos and video flew straight into a political battle over control of the nation's skies...
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Spacecraft Computer Issue Resolved
Engineers have found the root cause of a computer reset that occurred two months ago on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and have determined how to correct it.
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Turing's Enduring Importance
When Alan Turing was born 100 years ago, on June 23, 1912, a computer was not a thing—it was a person.
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Weave Open Source Data Visualization Offers Power, Flexibility
The open source Weave project is a platform designed to make it easier for government agencies, nonprofits, and corporate users to offer the public a way to analyze...
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Europe Goes for Computing Technologies as Driver for Competitiveness
The recent HiPEAC 2012 Conference highlighted the goal of getting energy efficient and low-cost computing technologies into the full spectrum of devices and systems...
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Texas Jury Strikes Down Patent Troll
After threatening web companies for more than a decade, Michael Doyle and his patent-holding company Eolas Technologies—named after the Irish word for knowledge—may...
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W3c Co-Chair: Apple, Google Power Causing Open Web Crisis
The dominance of Apple and Google mobile browsers is leading to a situation that is even worse for Web programming than the former dominance of Internet Explorer...
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'cyberspace Requires a World-Class Cyber Warrior'
With growing worries about the threat of "cyber warfare," militaries around the world are racing to recruit the computer specialists they believe may be central...
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Scientists Develop Biological Computer to Encrypt and Decipher Images
Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a computer made entirely from biomolecules that can...
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Poll: Most Back Obama's Use of Drones
As the 2012 election approaches, there’s one area where President Barack Obama can feel confident he has broad voter support—his military policies and use of drones...
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Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the Future Is Here
The object, vaguely pink, sits on the shoulder of the freeway, slowly shimmering into view. Is it roadkill? A weird kind of sagebrush? No, wait, it's … a puffy...
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Burning Man
On his first tour of duty in Afghanistan, Sam Brown was set on fire by an improvised explosive device. He survived, only to find himself, like thousands of other...
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