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Sending Data 160 Characters at a Time
In the absence of a good Internet connection, why not use text messages to transmit data?
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Study Shows Inequalities in 'White-Spaces' Wireless
University of California, Berkeley researchers recently published a detailed analysis of the potential for long-distance wireless Internet connectivity using white...
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How the Apple Ii Taught Programmers to Economize
Imagine trying to program a virtual machine--a software instance that mimics all the characteristics of a physical computer--on a device with 2 kilobytes of RAM...
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China: Our Internet Is Free Enough
China, with the most Internet users of any country in the world, has issued its first government whitepaper declaring an overall Internet strategy--one that advocates...
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Computing with Secrets, but Keeping them Safe
A novel technique could see future Web services work with sensitive data without ever being able to read it. Several implementations of a mathematical proof unveiled...
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High-Wire Robot to Inspect the Grid
Researchers at the Electric Power Research Institute have developed a robot that can crawl along transmission lines to inspect electrical wires without the need...
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New Cyber Chief Outlines Strategy
Security experts said this week that they were cheered by calls from General Keith Alexander, head of the new U.S. Cyber Command, for global rules of engagement...
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Open-Source Could Mean an Open Door For Hackers
The ability to access the code of open-source applications may give attackers an edge in developing exploits for the software, according to a paper analyzing two...
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Ranking the Most Powerful Supercomputers
The U.S. still leads in high-performance computing capacity, but China is undergoing explosive growth.
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sing Neural Networks to Classify Music
University of Hong Kong students trained a convolutional neural network built for image recognition to classify music.
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Mobile Data: A Gold Mine For Telcos
Cell phone companies are finding that they're sitting on a gold mine--in the form of the call records of their subscribers.
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Eye Tracking For Mobile Control
It's hard sending a text message with arms full of groceries or while wearing winter gloves. Voice control is one alternative to using your fingers, but researchers...
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Commercial Quantum Cryptography System Hacked
Physicists have mounted the first successful attack of its kind on a commercial quantum cryptography system.
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Can Social Networks Be Generated Automatically?
When Google launched Buzz, a microblogging social network, several months ago, the company boasted that the network had been generated automatically, by algorithms...
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Patient's Social Network Predicts Drug Outcomes
Earlier this month, the journal Lancet Neurology published a study showing that the generic drug lithium did nothing to slow the course of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...
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Why Twitter Is the Future of News
It's basically impossible for a journalist who relies on Twitter to find stories, stalk editors, rack up "whuffie" and beef with rap stars to be objective about...
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Peeking Into Users' Web History
In a test of Google's privacy protections, European researchers were able to hijack Google's personalized search suggestions to reconstruct users' Web search histories...
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Real-Time Search
How do you parse a tweet? Five years ago, that question would have been gibberish. Today, it's perfectly sensible, and it's at the front of Amit Singhal's mind....
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Exposing Hackers as an International Deterrent
An international group of computer scientists, law professors, military leaders, and others recently met at Russia's Moscow State University for a conference on...
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