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Seven Ways DARPA Is Trying to Kill the Password
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding research at institutions working on desktop and mobile authentication technologies.
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The Internet of Things Brings Far-Reaching Security Threats
U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency program manager Randy Garrett warns the advent of the Internet of Things will create a large number of new threat...
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STEM Partnerships Connect Students to Schools and Libraries
Public libraries have started partnering with local schools to provide science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education to students. A recent survey...
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Can an Armadillo Paper Airplane Fly? Autodesk Says Yes
We've all made the standard paper airplane, that elongated triangle made up of six simple folds.
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When Hackers Test For Flaws, They Might Earn Cash—or Threats
To hack or not to hack?
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Why One of Cybersecurity's Thought Leaders ses a Pager Instead of a Smart Phone
In the computer and network security industry, few people are as well known as Dan Geer.
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Big Data's High-Priests of Algorithms
Industry demand for data scientists is exploding with many businesses looking for people skilled in sifting through massive volumes of data streaming in from different...
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What Cars Did for Today's World, Data May Do for Tomorrow's
The acquisition and processing of digital information has become the dominant industrial ecosystem, which calls for new and improved ways of collecting, shipping...
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Google's Big-Data Tool, Mesa, Holds Petabytes of Data Across Multiple Servers
Google says its big-data architecture, Mesa, can store petabytes of data, update millions of rows of data per second, and field trillions of queries daily across...
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U-M Developing Wearable Tech For Disease Monitoring
University of Michigan researchers are developing a wearable vapor sensor that could offer continuous disease monitoring for patients with diabetes, high blood...
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Here's How the Feds Are Teaming Up With Hackers to Save US All from Robocalls
The Federal Trade Commission is at one of the world's biggest hacker conferences this weekend, where hackers are competing to help save us all from robocalls.
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A New Chip Functions Like a Brain, Ibm Says
IBM researchers have developed a new kind of computer chip that tries to mimic the way brains recognize patterns, relying on densely interconnected webs of transistors...
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Traffic Light Hackers Could Cause Jams Across the US
Branden Ghena pulls his car up under a traffic light in a city in Michigan.
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Malware Traffic Spikes Preceded Russian and Israeli Conflicts
A study of malware operating on corporate and government networks suggests that the communication patterns of these programs could warn of major conflicts.
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Augmented Reality Gives Physical World a Vrtual Dimension
For some it seems, the world is not enough.
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Meet the Puzzle Mastermind Who Designs Def Con's Hackable Badges
Def Con is one of the world's biggest hacker conventions, an annual gathering of security experts, cryptographers and at least a few people who could surreptitiously...
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Now You Can See the Invisible
University of California, Santa Barbara researchers are using Wi-Fi signals to look through solid walls and see what is on the other side.
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Mobile Gadgets That Connect to Wi-Fi Without a Battery
A new breed of mobile wireless device does not need a battery or other energy storage to send data over Wi-Fi. Researchers have developed prototype gadgets that...
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Transportation Institute Works on Study That Could Display Traffic Signs Inside Vehicles
Researchers at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Transportation Institute are exploring the idea of moving traffic signs from the side of...
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