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Intel, on the Outside, Takes Aim at Smartphones
With an "Intel Inside" sticker affixed to their PCs, computer buyers in the 1990s could hardly avoid knowing whose microchip was making their machines work. The...
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New Search Technology Is Enhanced With Videos
The line between cyberspace and the physical world is blurring with a new search technology being demonstrated by Autonomy, a British software publisher.
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Jean Bartik, Software Pioneer, Dies at 86
Jean Jennings Bartik, one of the first computer programmers and a pioneering forerunner in a technology that came to be known as software, died on March 23. She...
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At Particle Lab, a Tantalizing Glimpse Has Physicists Holding Their Breaths
Physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are planning to announce Wednesday that they have found a suspicious bump in their data that could be...
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More Pupils Are Learning Online, Fueling Debate on Quality
Jack London was the subject in Daterrius Hamilton’s online English 3 course. In a high school classroom packed with computers, he read a brief biography of London...
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Promoting Science, and Google, to Students
Google is synonymous with "search engine," and now, for students, it wants to be synonymous with "science."
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Ruling Spurs Effort to Form Digital Public Library
Is the tantalizing dream of a universal library dead? Some scholars and librarians across the country fear it may be, now that a federal judge in New York has...
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In a New Web World, No Application Is an Island
The Web is poised for a comeback. How’s that? Isn’t the Web already the crucial utility of online commerce, information and entertainment? In many ways, it certainly...
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A favorite pastime of Internet users is to share their location: services like Google Latitude can inform friends when you are nearby; another, Foursquare, has...
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Swiping Is the Easy Part
The cellphone has been more than a cellphone for years, but soon it could take on an entirely new role—standing in for all of the credit and debit cards crammed...
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E-Textbooks Get a Lift From Publishers
Over the years, publishers have tried a variety of strategies to sell digital textbooks but with limited success. Two major publishers, Pearson and McGraw-Hill,...
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Security Firm Is Vague on Its Compromised Devices
More than a day after RSA security posted an "urgent" alert warning that a sophisticated intruder might be able to initiate a "broad attack" on a password device...
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Keeping Tabs on the Infrastructure, Wirelessly
Engineers routinely inspect bridges and other structures for cracks and corrosion. But because they can’t always be there in person, one highly intelligent bridge...
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Quake Moved Japan Closer to U.S. and Altered Earth's Spin
The magnitude-8.9 earthquake that struck northern Japan on Friday not only violently shook the ground and generated a devastating tsunami, it also moved the coastline...
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In early 2009, statisticians inside the Googleplex here embarked on a plan code-named Project Oxygen. Their mission was to devise something far more important...
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Poker Bots Invade Online Gambling
Bryan Taylor, 36, could not shake the feeling that something funny was going on. Three of his most frequent opponents on an online poker site were acting oddly...
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Researchers Show How a Car's Electronics Can Be Taken Over Remotely
With a modest amount of expertise, computer hackers could gain remote access to someone's car—just as they do to people's personal computers—and take over the...
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Software Progress Beats Moore
One of the old jokes in computing is that what the hardware giveth, the software taketh away.
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Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software
When five television studios became entangled in a Justice Department antitrust lawsuit against CBS, the cost was immense. As part of the obscure task of "discovery"—providing...
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