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Comedy of Errors Led to False 'water-Pump Hack' Report
It was the broken water pump heard 'round the world. Cyberwar watchers took notice this month when a leaked intelligence memo claimed Russian hackers had remotely...
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Photoshopped or Not? A Tool to Tell
The photographs of celebrities and models in fashion advertisements and magazines are routinely buffed with a helping of digital polish.
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Soft Robots Inspired By Nature Could Become Our Flexible Friends
Robbie the Robot in the 1950s movie Forbidden Planet may have been endearing in a clunky, metallic way, but negotiating tricky terrain was never his strong point...
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Drone Pilots: The Future of Aerial Warfare
To understand how important remotely piloted aircraft are to the U.S. military, consider this: The U.S. Air Force says this year it will train more drone pilots...
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It's a Drone's World. We Just Live in It
Drones have had a profound effect on the way America fights its wars, allowing it to fight in new theaters while minimizing the risk to troops.
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11 Programming Trends to Watch
Eleven recent trends demonstrate how the programming industry is changing, with many new Java virtual machine-dependent languages are being developed, such as JRuby...
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Picture This: Better Decisions Through Data Visualization
Can you visualize data? That’s the question raised by the Data Visualization Student Challenge, a U.S. Department of Transportation competition that invited college...
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Important Step Toward Computing with Light
There has been enormous progress in recent years toward the development of photonic chips—devices that use light beams instead of electrons to carry out their...
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Cyber War Threatens Iran: Passive Defense Organization Chief
Until the next Iranian calendar year (which begins on March 20, 2012) cyber attacks will pose serious threats to Iran and that is why the Passive Defense Organization...
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Cyberwar Storm Clouds Are Gathering
Cyberspace. Some call it the new domain of war, after land, sea, air, and space.
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Millions of Printers Open to Devastating Hack Attack, Researchers Say
Could a hacker from half-way around the planet control your printer and give it instructions so frantic that it could eventually catch fire? Or use a hijacked...
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Dod Looks to Make a Game of Software Testing
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently launched the Crowd Sourced Formal Verification project, which aims to use crowdsourcing technology to...
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Computer Spots Micro Clue to Lies
Oxford University researchers are developing software that can recognize micro-expressions that appear when people lie.
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Patent Office Highlights Jobs's Innovations
The United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Va., recently unveiled an exhibit of 30 giant iPhone-like models honoring the inventions of the late...
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How Games Are Driving a Mobile Graphics Revolution
The needs of players are helping to push advances from chip makers like Qualcomm and Nvidia.
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Will Your Mall Be Tracking Your Cellphone Today?
Some shoppers looking for Black Friday deals will find a surprise waiting for them at the mall—sensors that track their every move.
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Did an Illinois Water tility Come nder Cyberattack?
And why was it connected to the Internet, anyway?
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Helping Computers Make Faster Decisions
Improvements in the standard algorithm that computers use to solve integer programs enables them to make yes/no decisions faster.
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10 Robots Inspired by Animals and Insects
All the research in the world can't beat millions of years of evolution.
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