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Researchers Find and Decode the Spy Tools Governments ­se to Hijack Phones
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Researchers Find and Decode the Spy Tools Governments ­se to Hijack Phones

Newly uncovered components of a digital surveillance tool used by more than 60 governments worldwide provide a rare glimpse at the extensive ways law enforcement...

Wearables For Animals
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Wearables For Animals

Wearable technologies help pet and livestock owners know their animals better than ever before.

These Psychedelic Images Find Order Amid Chaos
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These Psychedelic Images Find Order Amid Chaos

What do you see when you look at these images?

High-Performance Computer System Installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory
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High-Performance Computer System Installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory has a new high-performance computer system called Wolf that will be used for unclassified research. 

Beyond Tianhe-2
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Beyond Tianhe-2

The TOP500 semi-annual ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers, announced yesterday, revealed that China's Tianhe-2 has kept its first-place position...

Former Nsa Chief Mike Mcconnell Says Culture, Not Tech, Is Key to Cyber Defense
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Former Nsa Chief Mike Mcconnell Says Culture, Not Tech, Is Key to Cyber Defense

John M. (Mike) McConnell says that technology alone isn't enough to secure corporate networks from pervasive and increasingly damaging cyberattacks.

­nblinking Eyes Track Employees
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­nblinking Eyes Track Employees

A digital Big Brother is coming to work, for better or worse.

Indoor Gps Is the Final Frontier of Personalized Navigation
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Indoor Gps Is the Final Frontier of Personalized Navigation

Labs in the U.S. and U.K. are working on next-generation GPS that's so cool, it won't even use satellites.

Scheduling Algorithms Based on Game Theory Makes Better ­se of Computational Resources
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Scheduling Algorithms Based on Game Theory Makes Better ­se of Computational Resources

A new method has been developed to address the scheduling problem in the ASTRO program in cosmology and the WIEK2k program in theoretical chemistry. 

Top500 Supercomputer Race Hits a Slow Patch
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Top500 Supercomputer Race Hits a Slow Patch

The performance of the world's fastest computers has been steadily growing for two decades, but the latest tally of their collective performance shows slowing progress...

The Game Theory of Life
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The Game Theory of Life

An insight borrowed from computer science suggests that evolution values both fitness and diversity.

Computing a Cure For Hiv: 9 Ways Supercomputers Help Scientists ­nderstand and Treat the Virus
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Computing a Cure For Hiv: 9 Ways Supercomputers Help Scientists ­nderstand and Treat the Virus

HIV/AIDS has caused an estimated 36 million deaths, according to the World Health Organization, and remains a major menace worldwide.

China's Lunar Rover Limps Into Another Long Night
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China's Lunar Rover Limps Into Another Long Night

As it plunges into another two-week long 'lunar night', Jade Rabbit, China's Moon rover, is living on borrowed time.

­nicode ­pdate Adds Emoji For Spiders, Chili Pepper, 'live Long and Prosper,' and More
From ACM TechNews

­nicode ­pdate Adds Emoji For Spiders, Chili Pepper, 'live Long and Prosper,' and More

The Unicode consortium has updated its character-encoding standard to include an additional 250 emoji. 

Can We See the Arrow of Time?
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Can We See the Arrow of Time?

A new algorithm can determine whether a given snippet of video is playing backward or forward with 80-percent accuracy. 

Seeking Reality in the Future of Aeronautical Simulation
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Seeking Reality in the Future of Aeronautical Simulation

Computer simulation software is being used to help design future airliners that will cut fuel consumption, reduce polluting emissions, and fly more quietly. 

Facial Recognition Algorithms Improve
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Facial Recognition Algorithms Improve

The accuracy of facial-recognition algorithms has improved over the past three years, according to a U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

Computing Crime and Punishment
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Computing Crime and Punishment

Scientists and historians have performed a computational analysis of historical court records in London. 

Elephants Pave Way For New Intel on Australian Shoppers
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Elephants Pave Way For New Intel on Australian Shoppers

Queensland University of Technology researchers have used a Sri Lankan elephant-tracking model to analyze the behavior of shoppers in Australia. 

Crossing the Goal Line: New Tech Tracks Football in 3D Space
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Crossing the Goal Line: New Tech Tracks Football in 3D Space

Researchers have developed a system that can track a football in three-dimensional space using low-frequency magnetic fields. 
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