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Preserving Digital Data
Scientific data is expanding at an unprecedented rate. While new tools are helping preserve this data, funding must be increased and policy coordination needs improvement...
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Open For Business
Should academic articles be available for free on the Web?
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.s. Accelerating Cyberweapon Research
Former and current U.S. officials say the Pentagon is ramping up projects to develop next-generation cyberweapons that can disrupt enemy military networks even...
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DARPA Challenge Doesn't Go Viral on Twitter
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recent ended its Cash for Locating and Identifying Quick Response Codes challenge without anyone successfully...
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The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze.
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Free Apps Eat Up Your Phone Battery Just Sending Ads
Struggling to make your smartphone battery last the whole day? Paying for your apps might help.
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Ethics Fight Over Domain Name Intensifies
The U.S. Commerce Department's announcement that it will temporarily extend ICANN's current Internet Assigned Numbers Authority contract for six months instead...
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Surprise! Astronomers Spot Life on Earth
No one knows when we'll spot life on another world, but everyone knows how it will happen.
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U.s. Accelerating Cyberweapon Research
The Pentagon is accelerating efforts to develop a new generation of cyberweapons capable of disrupting enemy military networks even when those networks are not...
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Rebecca Mackinnon Discusses Threats to Internet Freedom: Part 1
Rebecca MacKinnon shares insights about Internet freedom, including the roles and responsibilities of citizens, corporations, and governments.
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sing Virtual Worlds to 'soft Control' People's Movements in the Real One
Northwestern University researchers have found they can influence smartphone users' movements by creating mobile games with incentives designed to steer user behavior...
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Drones Over America: What Can They See?
Unmanned aircraft systems, or drones, have long played a role in military operations. But imagine thousands of drones flying over U.S. skies—something we may see...
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Wireless Medical Monitors Transforming Patient Care
It's hard to find a better example of how technology is revolutionizing patient care than the tiny edible sensor Proteus Biomedical of Redwood City plans to begin...
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Google Gives Search a Refresh
Google Inc. is giving its tried-and-true Web-search formula a makeover as it tries to fix the shortcomings of today's technology and maintain its dominant market...
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Ietf Explores New Working Group on Identity Management in the Cloud
The Internet Engineering Task Force is considering approving the Simple Cloud Identity Management scheme, which manages user identity in cloud-based applications...
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U.s. Army to Soldiers: 'check-Ins' Can Kill
While the U.S. Army knows its soldiers live in the modern world and carry location-aware, socially networked smartphones, it is reiterating the dangers of broadcasting...
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Xbox at 10 in Europe: How the Console Shaped Gaming History
The games industry was a very different place 10 years ago. Still dominated by Japanese games and Japanese games machines, Microsoft's plans to launch its own dedicated...
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New Interest in Hacking as Threat to Security
During the five-month period between October and February, there were 86 reported attacks on computer systems in the United States that control critical infrastructure...
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