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A Tiny Computer Attracts a Million Tinkerers
Raspberry Pi may sound like the name of a math-based dessert. But it is actually one of the hottest and cheapest little computers in the world right now.
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Broad Powers Seen For Obama in Cyberstrikes
A secret legal review on the use of America's growing arsenal of cyberweapons has concluded that President Obama has the broad power to order a pre-emptive strike...
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Once Blackberry Focused, a Campus Widens Its View
The University of Waterloo, in a city that people outside Canada would struggle to find on a map, is one of the world’s best technology schools.
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Hackers in China Attacked The Times For Last 4 Months
For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters...
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Two Science Projects to Receive Award of 1 Billion Euros
Projects to imitate the brain and to develop new materials for information technology have won awards of about 1 billion euros (U.S. $1.34 billion) each were announced...
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Robot Makers Spread Global Gospel of Automation
A book by two Massachusetts Institute of Technology economists argues that the pace of automation is accelerating and robotics development is taking away jobs from...
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Next Made-in-China Boom: College Graduates
Zhang Xiaoping’s mother dropped out of school after sixth grade. Her father, one of 10 children, never attended.
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California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial
Online education startup Udacity has unveiled a partnership with San Jose State University to offer remedial and college-level algebra and introductory statistics...
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Drivers With Hands Full Get a Backup: The Car
Car makers increasingly are adopting technologies for use in autonomous vehicles that take advantage of the array of optical and radar sensors in new cars. The...
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Their Apps Track You. Will Congress Track Them?
There are three things that matter in consumer data collection: location, location, location.
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Digital Globes Offer a Dynamic Vision
In the main hall of the hands-on science exhibits at the Cape Town Science Center in South Africa, a lifeless, tattered globe stands under naked fluorescent bulbs...
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Students Rush to Web Classes, but Profits May Be Much Later
Several approaches to online education are emerging, and universities across the United States are increasing their online offerings. However, none of these programs...
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Communications Satellites Made Legal For Export
To the delight of American satellite makers, communications satellites—which orbit Earth to relay phone calls, link ships to shore and broadcast television programs—will...
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Outmaneuvered at Their Own Game, Antivirus Makers Struggle to Adapt
The antivirus industry has a dirty little secret: its products are often not very good at stopping viruses.
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Real and Virtual Firearms Nurture a Marketing Link
As Electronic Arts prepared to market Medal of Honor Warfighter, the latest version of its top-selling video game released in October, it created a Web site that...
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A Brooklyn Protester Pleads Guilty After His Twitter Posts Sink His Case
In the end, the tweets told the tale.
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.s. Rejects Telecommunications Treaty
The United States, Canada, and several European countries formally rejected a treaty proposed by Russia, China, and several developing countries that would have...
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Silencing the Voices of Militants on Twitter
Twitter, perhaps more than any other social media outlet, has become one of the most powerful tools to promote democracy in the Middle East.
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Courts Divided Over Searches of Cellphones
Judges and lawmakers across the country are wrangling over whether and when law enforcement authorities can peer into suspects' cellphones, and the cornucopia of...
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