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Prof Promises Supercomputer on Every Desktop
When Wu Feng looks at an iPad, he sees something more than a great way to play Fruit Ninja.
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Iran's Alleged Drone Hack: Tough, but Possible
Take everything that Iran says about its captured U.S. drone with a grain of salt. But its new claim that it spoofed the drone’s navigational controls isn't implausible...
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It Won't Be Easy For Iran to Dissect, Copy .s. Drone
Prepare the dissection table. Iran says it’s planning to disassemble its prized acquisition: a CIA-operated drone that apparently crashed in its territory. Its...
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Comedy of Errors Led to False 'water-Pump Hack' Report
It was the broken water pump heard 'round the world. Cyberwar watchers took notice this month when a leaked intelligence memo claimed Russian hackers had remotely...
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It's a Drone's World. We Just Live in It
Drones have had a profound effect on the way America fights its wars, allowing it to fight in new theaters while minimizing the risk to troops.
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The Problem With Landing Humans on Mars (and How to Fix It)
When NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory—scheduled to lift-off from Cape Canaveral later this week—touches down on the Red Planet in August of 2012, the one-ton probe...
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H(ackers)2O: Attack on City Water Station Destroys Pump
Hackers gained remote access into the control system of the city water utility in Springfield, Illinois, and destroyed a pump, according to a report released...
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China Looms Large in Race of the Supercomputers
Ten years ago, a ranking of the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers included precisely three entries from China. The most powerful of these—a system used to...
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DARPA Looks to Protect Drones from Hack Attacks
Cybersecurity, as interpreted by the Pentagon’s premiere researcher, isn’t just about protecting data networks. It’s about making the military’s killer drones...
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Supreme Court Sees Shades of 1984 in Unchecked Gps Tracking
A number of Supreme Court justices invoked the specter of Big Brother while hearing arguments Tuesday over whether the police may secretly attach GPS devices...
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Japan Pushes World's Fastest Computer Past 10 Petaflop Barrier
The Japanese have broken the 10 petaflop barrier. On Wednesday, Japanese IT giant Fujitsu and the government-funded RIKEN research lab announced the supercomputer...
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How Your iPhone Chip Will Reinvent the Internet Data Center
Jonathan Heiliger is the kind of guy you want running your data center.
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How Technical Glitches Foiled the Russian Sleeper Spies
Spying for Russia can be a hard life. The feds are on your trail, always trying to find out who you’re meeting with and talking to.
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Headless, Humanoid Robot Preps For Army Duty
Sauntering toward you like a mechanized zombie is the Army’s newest recruit: a robot with a blinking red light where its head should be.
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Ice Cream Sandwich: A Deep-Dive Tour With Android
There are few things in this world I despise more than software updates. Downloading hundreds of files, waiting for the progress bar to fill, restarting the device—it’s...
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Meet Arm's Cortex A15: The Future of the Ipad, and Possibly the Macbook Air
In addition to unveiling its Cortex A7 processor last Wednesday, the press event was also a sort of second debut for the Cortex A15. The A15 will go into ARM...
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The Quest For the Holy Grail of Storage
The cloud has a big problem on its hands: Cloud storage is failure-prone, slow, and infinitely quirky.
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Air Force Insists: Drone Cockpit Virus Just a 'nuisance'
The U.S. Air Force revealed new details Wednesday about the virus that’s been infecting the remote cockpits of its drone fleet—and insisted, despite reports from...
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Gadgets the Pentagon Made
The cool voice assistant that runs on the iPhone 4S? Years ago, someone thought what Apple calls Siri would be a valuable tool for the military. Come to think...
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