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Hot on the Trail of Consciousness in Brain and Machine
"Nowhere in science have so many devoted so much to create so little consensus," writes physicist, author, and TV presenter Michio Kaku of consciousness research...
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Computer Science: The Learning Machines
Three years ago, researchers at the secretive Google X lab in Mountain View, California, extracted some 10 million still images from YouTube videos and fed them...
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Are You Too Paranoid About Digital Privacy, or Not Paranoid Enough?
Let's start with one thing you hear over and over again when interviewing people about privacy: "I've got nothing to hide."
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Federal Agencies Embrace New Technology and Strategies to Find the Enemy Within
After years of focusing on outside threats, the federal government and its contractors are turning inward, aiming a range of new technologies and counterintelligence...
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UCLA Engineering Team Increases Power Efficiency For Future Computer Processors
An emerging class of magnetic materials called multiferroics could help make future computing devices far more energy-efficient than current technologies.
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DDoS Cyber Attacks Get Bigger, Smarter, More Damaging
Crashing websites and overwhelming data centers, a new generation of cyber attacks is costing millions and straining the structure of the Internet.
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Mathematical Proof Reveals How To Make The Internet More Earthquake-Proof
One of the common myths about the Internet is that it was originally designed during the Cold War to survive nuclear attack.
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Open Source Challenges a Proprietary Internet of Things
The Linux Foundation recently created the AllSeen Alliance, which combines the AllJoyn Framework with its open source network.
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S&t Computer Engineer Patents Quantum Computing Device
A Missouri University of Science and Technology researcher has patented a quantum processor capable of parallel computing that uses no transistors.
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Designing Robots That Can Keep Secrets
Researchers are studying ways to prevent surrogate robots from unnecessarily revealing the identities of the people with whom they interact.
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Inside the New Arms Race to Control Bandwidth on the Battlefield
An electromagnetic mystery in northern Iraq changed the course of Jesse Potter's life.
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Cassini Nears 100th Titan Flyby with a Look Back
Ten years ago, we knew Titan as a fuzzy orange ball about the size of Mercury.
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Russia and kraine in Cyber 'stand-Off'
As diplomatic efforts are stepped up to ease tensions in Ukraine, security experts have warned that Kiev and Moscow are locked in a cyber stand-off.
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N.s.a. Director Says Snowden Leaks Hamper Efforts Against Cyberattacks
Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency, said Tuesday that the leaks by the former agency contractor Edward J. Snowden had slowed...
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How Do You Build a Large-Scale Quantum Computer?
Researchers have proposed a modular architecture that offers scalability to address the challenge of physically implementing a full-scale universal quantum computer...
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Experts Urge Conservatism on Crypto Standards
Security people are, by nature, cautious and methodical, and that is even more true of cryptographers.
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Meet the Seven People Who Hold the Keys to Worldwide Internet Security
In a nondescript industrial estate in El Segundo, a boxy suburb in south-west Los Angeles just a mile or two from LAX international airport, 20 people wait in a...
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Hackers Allegedly Stole $400 Million in Bitcoins. Here's How to Catch Them.
On Friday, what had been the world's leading Bitcoin exchange declared bankrutpcy, claiming that hackers had exploited a technical issue called "transaction malleability...
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Xi Jinping Leads Internet Security Group
President Xi Jinping will head the central Internet security and informatization leading group, according to a statement released after the first meeting of the...
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