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Black Holes Don't Make a Big Splash
Throughout our universe, tucked inside galaxies far, far away, giant black holes are pairing up and merging.
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Here's What the Morris Worm Prosecutor Thinks About Aaron Swartz
It was 25 years ago Tuesday that The New York Times first named 23-year-old Cornell graduate student Robert Morris as the culprit behind what became known as the...
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Broken News: Struggling to Find Facts in the Twitter Maelstrom
As with Hurricane Sandy, the Boston Marathon bombings, and countless other major stories, news of the shooting at the Los Angeles International Airport was sometimes...
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Quantum 'sealed Envelope' System Enables 'perfectly Secure' Information Storage
Cambridge University researchers say they have achieved a breakthrough in quantum cryptography by demonstrating that information can be encrypted and then decrypted...
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New Supercomputer ses Ssds Instead of Dram and Hard Drives
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory this month is deploying Catalyst, a new supercomputer that uses solid-state drive storage as an alternative to dynamic random...
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Nsa's Reported Tampering Could Change How Crypto Standards Are Made
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology is formally reviewing its cryptographic standards development processes to address a loss of public confidence...
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Circle of Life: The Beautiful New Way to Visualize Biological Data
When Martin Krzywinski took a systems administrator job at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Center, he didn’t plan on becoming a pioneer of 21st century biological...
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Gimball: A Crash-Happy Flying Robot
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Lausanne have developed Gimball, a spherical flying robot that is protected by an elastic cage that...
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Addressing the Threat of Silent Data Corruption
Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory are conducting a large-scale field test study of incorrect results on high-performance computing platforms to...
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Intense Smog Is Making Beijing's Massive Surveillance Network Practically Useless
Beijing's surveillance network, one of the most extensive and invasive in the world, has been compromised by an unexpected foe: smog.
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What Is 4d Printing?
The biggest breakthroughs in how we make things lie not in the technology to manipulate materials but in the materials themselves.
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How a Grad Student Trying to Build the First Botnet Brought the Internet to Its Knees
On November 3, 1988, 25 years ago Sunday, people woke up to find the Internet had changed forever.
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Wearable Gadgets Transform How Companies Do Business
Big companies are putting wearables to work.
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The World of Perks
Companies are offering more and more creative extras to entice and retain employees, but there can be a downside.
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'Selfish Miner' Attack Could Devastate Bitcoin, Researchers Say
Cornell University researchers say Bitcoin is vulnerable to an attack that could have a devastating impact on the virtual currency, but it can be fixed with a software...
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The Fight Against Biometric Spoofing
The European Union has provided additional funding for the Tabula Rasa Consortium, a research group developing countermeasures against spoofed biometric identifiers...
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Computer-Aided Image Analysis Aims to Offer 'Second Opinion' in Breast Tumor Diagnosis
University of Chicago researchers are developing computer-aided diagnosis and quantitative image analysis methods for mammograms, ultrasounds, and MRIs to identify...
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Will India Get to Mars? A Guide to the Dangers Ahead
With the successful launch just hours ago of its Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), India has passed the first test in its bid to orbit the Red Planet. Next up is a nail...
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Professor Clifford I. Nass, Expert on Human/computer Interactions, Dead at 55
Clifford I. Nass, a Stanford communication professor known for his research on the way people interact with technology, died Nov. 2 at Stanford Sierra Camp near...
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