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Why Everyone Was Wrong About Net Neutrality
Today, the Federal Communications Commission, by a vote of three to two, enacted its strongest-ever rules on net neutrality, preserving an open Internet by prohibiting...
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Invasion of the Friendly Movie Robots
Robots are becoming more of a reality in everyday life, and movies have started to overhaul their depiction of them. They're gentler, friendlier, and often better...
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Study of Atmospheric 'froth' May Help Gps Communications
When you don't know how to get to an unfamiliar place, you probably rely on a smart phone or other device with a Global Positioning System (GPS) module for guidance...
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How Madden Ratings Are Made
Hunched over a keyboard, surrounded by computer monitors, Donny Moore, 37, controls the fate of the National Football League.
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Nasa's Curiosity Mars Rover Drills at 'telegraph Peak'
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its drill on Tuesday, Feb. 24 to collect sample powder from inside a rock target called "Telegraph Peak." The target sits in the...
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Microsoft Leverages Tech to Preserve Languages at Risk of Disappearing
Microsoft wants to develop software that helps lost languages maintain their relevancy in the modern age.
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Techies Take on Port Authority's Data For Path Stations in 'hackathon'
Code of Jersey City recently held its second all-day Hackathon.
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Army Research Lab Lays Out Hpc Strategy
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory is utilizing supercomputing and large-scale analytics to maintain its position as the country's top laboratory for land forces...
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How Safe Are Perl, Php, and Ruby? The Experts Weigh In
Many developers of programming languages are quick to defend the security of their language.
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Professor Develops Tool to Speed Data Collection
The Computer Assisted Neighborhood Visual Assessment System is a Web application that helps accelerate the collection of research data.
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Game-Playing Software Holds Lessons For Neuroscience
DeepMind, the Google-owned artificial-intelligence company, has revealed how it created a single computer algorithm that can learn how to play 49 different arcade...
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New Display Technology Lets Lcds Produce Princess Leia-Style Holograms
During a famous scene in Star Wars, Princess Leia has R2D2 play a holographic video message in midair in which she pleads for help from Obi-Wan Kenobi. In the near...
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Surprise! America Already Has a Manhattan Project For Developing Cyber Attacks
"What we really need is a Manhattan Project for cybersecurity." It's a sentiment that swells up every few years in the wake of some huge computer intrusion—most...
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The Four Main Roadblocks Holding p Self-Driving Cars
There are four major obstacles facing developers of autonomous vehicles.
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Intel: Moore's Law Will Continue Through 7nm Chips
Papers Intel plans to share this week are meant to reassure the computer industry about the viability of Moore's Law, at least for the immediate future.
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Spy Research Agency Is Building Psychic Machines to Predict Hacks
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is working on a new contest aimed at creating a system to predict cyberthreats a network may face ahead...
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What Clever Robots Mean For Jobs
For a long time economists maintained that new technology would not result in a net loss of jobs, but some economists now think the situation is more nuanced than...
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The Plan to Find Alien Life in Europa's Icy Seas
How do you solve a problem like Europa?
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Building a Face, and a Case, on Dna
There were no known eyewitnesses to the murder of a young woman and her 3-year-old daughter four years ago. No security cameras caught a figure coming or going.
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