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1986 Privacy Law Is Outrun By the Web
Rising use of the Internet has overtaken the main statute governing communication privacy, according to many Web companies and consumer proponents, who say they...
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Keeping Women in Science on a Tenure Track
More women are obtaining Ph.D.s in science than ever before, but those women—largely because of pressures from having a family—are far more likely than their...
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The New Speed of Money, Reshaping Markets
A substantial part of all stock trading in the United States takes place in a warehouse in a nondescript business park just off the New Jersey Turnpike.
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Graphics Ability Is the New Goal For Chip Makers
Computer chip makers will highlight the improved visual performance of their technology at this year's Consumer Electronics Show.
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More Schools Embracing Ipad as Learning Tool
A growing number of schools across the United States are embracing the iPad as a teaching tool. Some parents and scholars have raised concerns that schools are...
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Graphics Ability Is the New Goal For Chip Makers
In the good old days, it was all about speed.
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Computers That See You and Keep Watch Over You
Hundreds of correctional officers from prisons across America descended last spring on a shuttered penitentiary in West Virginia for annual training exercises...
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When Innovation, Too, Is Made in China
As a national strategy, China is trying to build an economy that relies on innovation rather than imitation.
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Perfecting Animation, via Science
Eitan Grinspun, the director of Columbia University’s Computer Graphics Group, doesn't quite qualify as hairdresser to the stars.
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Cheaters Find an Adversary in Technology
Mississippi had a problem born of the age of soaring student testing and digital technology. High school students taking the state’s end-of-year exams were using...
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Gadgets Bring New Opportunities For Hackers
Researchers at Mocana, a security technology company in San Francisco, recently discovered they could hack into a best-selling Internet-ready HDTV model with...
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What's Around the Bend? Soon, a Camera May Show You
Anyone who has witnessed the megapixel one-upmanship in camera ads might think that computer chips run the show in digital photography.
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Smarter, Not Faster, Is the Future of Computing Research
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology's recently released report suggests that U.S. research funds would be better spent developing effective...
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Email Gets an Instant Makeover
Signs you’re an old fogey: You still watch movies on a VCR, listen to vinyl records and shoot photos on film. And you enjoy using email.
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To Attract the Next Google, the City Seeks a New College
Worried that New York City is not spawning enough technology-based start-up companies with the potential to become big employers like Google, city officials are...
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An Exhibition That Gets to the (square) Root of Sumerian Math
Papyrus, parchment, paper ... videotape, DVDs, Blu-ray discs—long after all these materials have crumbled to dust, the first recording medium of all, the cuneiform...
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U.s. Tries to Build Case For Conspiracy By Wikileaks
Federal prosecutors, seeking to build a case against the WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange for his role in a huge dissemination of classified government documents...
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I.b.m. Supercomputer 'watson' to Challenge 'jeopardy' Stars
An I.B.M. supercomputer system named after the company’s founder, Thomas J. Watson Sr., is almost ready for a televised test: a bout of questioning on the quiz...
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Panel Set to Study Safety of Electronic Patient Data
Almost two years ago, President Obama pledged $19 billion in stimulus incentives to help convert the nation’s doctors and hospitals to using a paperless system...
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