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Planning His Legacy, Cisco Chief Maps an Expansion
John T. Chambers has readied his last great act as the leader of Cisco Systems, fearing major changes in the technology business that could doom his company.
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ARM R&D Chief: Intel Can’t Beat s Without A New Business Model
Although Intel is still the undisputed king of silicon, it's a surprising fact that the ARM processor design is in more 32-bit chips than Intel’s x86 design, thanks...
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Intel Tech Chief Rattner Peers Into the Future
What does the future of computing look like? Justin Rattner has a better inkling than most.
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Syria Outage Sheds Light on U.s. 'kill Switch' Concerns
Syria and as many as 60 other countries are at a severe risk of being disconnected from the Internet because of lack of redundancy in their telecommunications connections...
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The Rise of Voice Biometrics For Mobile Phones
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs researchers have developed Vaulted Voice Verification, an approach to voice identification that can be used for voice...
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House Approves Resolution to Keep Internet Control Out of Un Hands
The U.S. House of Representatives has unanimously passed a resolution that calls on the U.S. government to oppose a United Nations effort to control the Internet...
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Nasa-Noaa Satellite Reveals New Views of Earth at Night
Scientists unveiled today an unprecedented new look at our planet at night.
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Michael Bloomberg Wants to Do Something Cool with New York's Phone Booths
Just 15 years ago, New York City had 35,000 phone booths. Thanks to cell phones it now has just 11,000, most of which serve little purpose for anyone but Clark...
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Hacker Locates John Mcafee Through Smartphone Tracks
Weeks of international intrigue about the whereabouts of tech millionaire John McAfee ended Tuesday after the Internet pioneer made an elementary digital mistake...
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Preventing 'cyber Pearl Harbor'
Human factors/ergonomics researchers Varun Dutt, Young-Suk Ahn, and Cleotilde Gonzalez say the key to protecting online operations is a high degree of cybersecurity...
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Texas Teen Wins $100,000 National Science Prize
A high school student from Texas has won a $100,000 scholarship for a developing a computer algorithm that helps robots navigate around obstacles, an algorithm...
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Nasa Voyager 1 Encounters New Region in Deep Space
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region at the far reaches of our solar system that scientists feel is the final area the spacecraft has to cross before...
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The ps and Downs of Making Elevators Go
You press a button and wait for your elevator. How long before you get impatient and agitated? Theresa Christy says 20 seconds.
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Silencing the Voices of Militants on Twitter
Twitter, perhaps more than any other social media outlet, has become one of the most powerful tools to promote democracy in the Middle East.
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Nasa Mars Rover Fully Analyzes First Soil Samples
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian...
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How Martin Odersky Rewrote the Rules of Coding For a Mobile World
Next time you pull out your smartphone to use a popular application—whether it's to price check items in a store, to tweet or to check your cloud-based calendar—you...
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Bend Me, Shape Me: Flexible Phones 'out By 2013'
Imagine treating your phone like a piece of paper.
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Teaching Tiny Drones How to Fly Themselves
Thanks to the wars in the Middle East, drones like the Predator have become household names.
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Despite Ceasefire, Israel-Gaza War Continues Online
It's been a week since Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire pausing their war in Gaza. But on the internet, a different kind of fighting never stopped—and has actually...
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