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New Tracking Frontier: Your License Plates
For more than two years, the police in San Leandro, Calif., photographed Mike Katz-Lacabe's Toyota Tercel almost weekly.
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Acoustic Cell-Sorting Chip May Lead to Cell Phone-Sized Medical Labs
Researchers have created a device that uses acoustic waves to sort a continuous flow of cells on a chip, and they believe it could lead to more efficient and less...
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DDoS Attacks on Major U.S. Banks Are No Stuxnet—Here's Why
The attacks that recently disrupted website operations at Bank of America and at least five other major U.S. banks used compromised Web servers to flood their targets...
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Nasa's Infrared Observatory Measures Expansion of Universe
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have announced the most precise measurement yet of the Hubble constant, or the rate at which our universe is stretching...
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Information Nation: Digital Social Experiment to Put a Human Face on Big Data
Imagine seeing life through one eyeball but then being given the ability to view the world through two or even three eyeballs at once.
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Controlling Curiosity: How Do You Drive a Mars Rover?
Engineers at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, have the ultimate iPhone app.
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The Cosmological Supercomputer
When it comes to reconstructing the past, you might think that astrophysicists have it easy. After all, the sky is awash with evidence,
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Digital Agenda: EU-Funded Research to Make the 'Cloud' Greener
The Eurocloud project aims to develop a 3D microchip that can drastically cut the electricity and the installation costs of servers in cloud computing data centers...
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A Smartphone in Your Glasses
EPFL researchers are developing a prototype of a pair of augmented glasses that allow the wearer to read messages, look at an itinerary, and receive a variety of...
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Megadroid: 300,000 Androids Clustered Together to Study Network Havoc
Anyone who builds an Android app knows that testing on real devices is important. But what if instead of testing on one device at a time, you could test 300,000...
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New Android Malware App Turns Phone Into Surveillance Device
Mobile malware has largely been limited to Trojans buried inside a malicious app targeting sensitive data stored on the phone such as email, contact information...
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U.s. Bank Website Hackers Used Advanced Botnets, Diverse Tools
The hackers behind the cyber attacks on major U.S. banks have repeatedly disrupted online banking by using sophisticated and diverse tools that point to a carefully...
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Cyber Attackers Disrupt Internet in Iran: Official
Cyber attackers have targeted Iranian infrastructure and communications companies, disrupting the Internet across the country, a state official was quoted as saying...
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Leonard Kleinrock, the Tx-2 and the Seeds of the Internet
It was 4:00 in the morning, and Leonard Kleinrock was sitting inside MIT's Lincoln Laboratory on the outskirts of Boston, hunched in front of a massive computer...
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Proposed Space Boat Could Explore Lakes on Saturn's Moon Titan
While rovers are ideal for exploring Mars, a boat is best for Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
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Online Education Grows Up, and For Now, It's Free
Online education isn't particularly new. It has been around in some form since the 1990s, but what is new is the speed and scale in which online learning is growing...
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More Mobile News Consumers Choosing Web Over Apps
Mobile apps were supposed to be the reset button for the news industry.
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Commander: Iranian Cyber Forces Easily Access Enemies' Highly Classified Info
Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps Navy Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi stressed the high capability of the country's cyberwar experts, and said the Iranian...
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Google Leapfrogs Microsoft in Market Value
For Microsoft, it was bad enough when Apple's stock market value surpassed its own in 2010. Now Google, a company that didn't even exist 15 years ago, just did...
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