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Virginia Tech Initiative With Qualcomm to Expose Students to STEM
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and chip manufacturer Qualcomm have are opening a new Thinkabit lab at the university's Northern Virginia campus...
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Google's Clever Plan to Stop Aspiring Isis Recruits
Google has built a half-trillion-dollar business out of divining what people want based on a few words they type into a search field.
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A Proactive Approach to Ensuring Long-Term Cybersecurity
The European Union is funding two projects devoted to developing new cybersecurity paradigms, architectures, and software.
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How Apple Helped Create Ireland's Economies, Real and Fantastical
There are two equally valid, yet seemingly incompatible, ways of viewing Apple Computer's relationship with Ireland.
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Xsede 2.0: The Nsf Doubles Down
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $110 million to the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment.
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Does the Messaging Service Telegram Take Privacy Too Far?
The encryption of digital information is considered the best protection against hackers, snoops or potential enemies looking to poke around into private exchanges...
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How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a Smartphone
Want to invisibly spy on 10 iPhone owners without their knowledge? Gather their every keystroke, sound, message and location?
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Intelligent Technology--the Evolution and Future of Automation
Researchers argue core principles of automation and artificial intelligence must be reconsidered as the world experiences an information technology shift.
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Revealed: Google's Plan For Quantum Computer Supremacy
Somewhere in California, Google is building a device that will usher in a new era for computing.
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sing Data Science to Confront Policing Challenges
Police are turning to academic institutions using machine learning methods to predict and prevent adverse incidents.
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G.e., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-p
It may not qualify as a lightning-bolt eureka moment, but Jeffrey R. Immelt, chief executive of General Electric, recalls the June day in 2009 that got him thinking...
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Flood Forecasting Gets Major pgrade
Researchers have created the National Water Model, which provides forecasts, data, and decision support to emergency services and water management personnel.
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Apple Issues Global Ios pdate After Attempt to se Spyware on Activist's Iphone
A botched attempt to break into the iPhone of an Arab activist using hitherto unknown espionage software has triggered a global upgrade of Apple's mobile operating...
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Auto, Technology Industries Clash Over Talking Cars
Cars that wirelessly talk to each other are finally ready for the road, creating the potential to dramatically reduce traffic deaths, improve the safety of self...
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World's Biggest Telescope Meets World's Second-Fastest Supercomputer
A component of the software system that will manage data from the Square Kilometer Array telescope has run on Tianhe-2, the world's second-fastest supercomputer...
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After 25 Years, a New Web
Tim Berners-Lee and others want a more reliable Web that ensures integrity and privacy.
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Harvey Mudd College Took on Gender Bias and Now More Than Half Its Computer-Science Majors Are Women
This year, at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA, for the first time, more women than men graduated with a degree in computer science.
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Hints Suggest an Insider Helped the Nsa 'equation Group' Hacking Tools Leak
A group called the Shadow Brokers made headlines this month by leaking a hacking tool belonging to the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) team. Now this week...
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