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­.s. and China Seek Arms Deal For Cyberspace
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­.s. and China Seek Arms Deal For Cyberspace

The United States and China are negotiating what could become the first arms control accord for cyberspace, embracing a commitment by each country that it will...

Whoa. Microsoft Is ­sing Linux to Run Its Cloud
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Whoa. Microsoft Is ­sing Linux to Run Its Cloud

Microsoft has cozied up to the open source community in recent years.

Funky Light Signal From Colliding Black Holes Explained
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Funky Light Signal From Colliding Black Holes Explained

Entangled by gravity and destined to merge, two candidate black holes in a distant galaxy appear to be locked in an intricate dance.

Robotic Limbs Get a Sense of Touch
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Robotic Limbs Get a Sense of Touch

Advanced prosthetics have for the past few years begun tapping into brain signals to provide amputees with impressive new levels of control.

Microsoft to Invest $75 Million in Computer Science Education
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Microsoft to Invest $75 Million in Computer Science Education

Microsoft is investing $75 million over a three-year period to help make computer science more mainstream in schools.

The Revolution Will Not Be Crystallized: A New Method Sweeps Through Structural Biology
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The Revolution Will Not Be Crystallized: A New Method Sweeps Through Structural Biology

In a basement room, deep in the bowels of a steel-clad building in Cambridge, a major insurgency is under way.

How Tomorrow's Battles Will Be Fought in Augmented Reality
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How Tomorrow's Battles Will Be Fought in Augmented Reality

For nearly three decades, Bob Stone has worked in the field of virtual reality, and he now sees the technology's applications becoming a reality.

Europe Gears ­p For Land, Air, and Sea Robotics Competition
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Europe Gears ­p For Land, Air, and Sea Robotics Competition

The euRathlon 2015 Grand Challenge is designed to assess how well cooperative robot systems perform as part of a simulated emergency-response operation.

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Now There's an App For That
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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Now There's an App For That

The California HealthCare Foundation offered $100,000 for an algorithm that would allow artificial intelligence to detect retinal damage due to diabetic retinopathy...

The 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration Abie Award Winners
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The 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration Abie Award Winners

The Anita Borg Institute has announced the winners of its 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration ABIE Awards recognizing female leaders in computer science. 

The Dismal State of America's Decade-Old Voting Machines
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The Dismal State of America's Decade-Old Voting Machines

Almost all U.S. states are using technologically outdated touchscreen and optical-scan voting systems that are at least 10 years old, according to a report.

The Search For a Thinking Machine
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The Search For a Thinking Machine

Thanks, in part, to a new era of machine learning, computer are already starting to assimilate information from raw data in the same way as the human infant learns...

­nhackable Kernel Could Keep All Computers Safe from Cyberattack
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­nhackable Kernel Could Keep All Computers Safe from Cyberattack

An autonomous helicopter gunship is flying over a military base in Arizona. Suddenly, officers on the ground lose radio contact: hackers have taken control of an...

China Tries to Extract Pledge of Compliance From ­.s. Tech Firms
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China Tries to Extract Pledge of Compliance From ­.s. Tech Firms

The Chinese government, which has long used its country's vast market as leverage over American technology companies, is now asking some of those firms to directly...

The People Hoping to Continue to Exist Through Technology
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The People Hoping to Continue to Exist Through Technology

"We have this strange idea that dying is something we need to do."

Cassini Finds Global Ocean in Saturn's Moon Enceladus
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Cassini Finds Global Ocean in Saturn's Moon Enceladus

A global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus, according to new research using data from NASA's Cassini mission.

Study Names the Five Most Hackable Vehicles
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Study Names the Five Most Hackable Vehicles

A PT&C|LWG Forensic Consulting Services study has named the top five vehicles most susceptible to hacking. 

Egyptian Professor Chipping Away at Energy Efficiency
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Egyptian Professor Chipping Away at Energy Efficiency

A Brown University professor is studying ways to increase the energy efficiency of computing systems without sacrificing performance.  

Engineers Are Modeling Quantum Computers Based on Sound
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Engineers Are Modeling Quantum Computers Based on Sound

Sound, instead of wires or fiber optics, could be used to connect distant quantum bits, according to researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics...

­ta Research Will Lead to More Efficient Computer Modeling
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­ta Research Will Lead to More Efficient Computer Modeling

A group of engineers are developing hybrid software and hardware approaches to testing electric machines during the design stage.
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