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Student-Built Satellite Scheduled for Launch
A 6.5-pound satellite scheduled for launch on November 19 is to become the first stand-alone spacecraft built by University of Michigan students to go into orbit...
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Scientists View Cybersecurity as an Intimidating Conundrum
The U.S. President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology recently called on cybersecurity experts to discuss specific areas in the networking and information...
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Google Speeds Queries With 'instant' Results
Those who find Google’s search engine to be impossibly slow will welcome Google Instant, an upgrade to the company’s search results that it unveiled Wednesday.
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ITU Head: Cyberwar Could Be 'Worse Than Tsunami'
There needs to be a global cybersecurity peace treaty to avert the threat of international cyberwar, whose effects would be more devastating than a tsunami, says...
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Scientists Develop Device to Enable Improved Global Data Transmission
University of Southampton researchers have developed a data transmission system that could benefit optical communications networks by eliminating phase noise from...
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Massive Online Networks to be Focus of Study of Creative Collaborations
Using two creative online communities as their laboratory, two Indiana University Bloomington researchers hope to understand how the inner workings of such massive...
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Scientists Decode Words from Brain Signals
In an early step toward turning the thoughts of severely paralyzed people into digitized speech, University of Utah researchers translated brain signals into...
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Vulnerability in Commercial Quanto Cryptography
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light have...
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FCC Seeks More Input on Wireless Internet Rules
The FCC recently asked for more feedback regarding whether regulations should apply to wireless Internet service, adding months of debate on the subject. The FCC...
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How Internet Growth Is Playing Out in Top Emerging Markets
The number of Internet users in the top emerging markets is set to nearly double by 2015—a pace of growth that sounds enticing but that actually presents plenty...
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Season For High Science
Hurricanes on both coasts are test beds for new forecasting tools.
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Fcc Adjusts Final Rules on Use of Vacant Tv Band
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is close to passing a proposal that would free up the vacant spectrum between TV channels, which would allow technology...
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Building the Future Internet
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor Tarek Abdelzaher and his team are working with researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles and...
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CMU Will Develop Architecture That Makes Internet Secure, Smart
The U.S. National Science Foundation will fund a $7.1 million project led by Carnegie Mellon University researchers to develop a next-generation Internet architecture...
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Hackers Blind Quantum Cryptographers
Lasers crack commercial encryption systems, leaving no trace.
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To Win Over Users, Gadgets Have to Be Touchable
Whoever said technology was dehumanizing was wrong. On screens everywhere—cellphones, e-readers, A.T.M.’s—as Diana Ross sang, we just want to reach out and touch...
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DARPA
Tomorrow’s WikiLeakers may have to be sneakier than just dumping military docs onto a Lady Gaga disc. The futurists at Darpa are working on a project that would...
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Digital Media Essential in Building Democracies, Research Shows
Research from the University of Washington finds that digital media, such as mobile phones and the Internet, have become all but essential in building democracies...
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K-Anonymity Privacy Protection Model Needs a Little Help
The "K-anonymity" method of providing anonymity to large data sets has raised excitement in realms as diverse as social networks and medical records, but it appears...
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