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The Website That Reveals State Secrets
If Daniel Ellsberg wanted to leak secret documents today, he probably would send them to a powerful and controversial new venue for whistle-blowing: a Website called...
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'Twitter-Like' Technology Could Make Cities Safer
Researchers at the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council have developed technology that enables people to provide feedback, track their comments, see...
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How a Smart, Decentralized Energy Web Is Essential for Managing Renewable Energy Sources
Researchers from the Italian research center CREATE-NET recently completed a study that examined the ways in which decentralized, bottom-up design approaches could...
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Taking the Mystery Out of Web Anonymity
The Obama Administration is trying to fix the Internet’s dog problem.
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A Decade Later, Internet Appliance Dream Is Realized
Ten years ago, the next big thing in tech was supposed to be the Internet appliance: a device that offered tech newbies a simpler and cheaper way to get onto the...
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Search Engines Learn How to Watch and Listen to Video
Missed the winning goal in that crucial football match at the 2010 FIFA World Cup? Just get on the net and you'll find hours of user-generated video content of...
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Submarine Robots Learn Teamwork
New technology developed by European researchers will allow autonomous underwater vehicles to work together as a team. It increases the scope of submarine applications...
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Planck Takes It All In
A new image from the Planck mission shows what it's been up to for the past year--surveying the entire sky for clues to our universal origins.
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To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery
The frontier in the battle to defeat student cheating may be here at the testing center of the University of Central Florida.
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Biometric Atm Gives Cash Via 'finger Vein' Scan
Poland's cooperative BPS bank says it's the first in Europe to install a biometric ATM--allowing customers to withdraw cash simply with the touch of a fingertip...
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'paperless Ticketing' Aims to Thwart Scalping at Concerts, Sports Events
Anyone who's ever chased a hot ticket for a concert or sports event knows the agony of the drill. Wait--online or in line--until the box office opens and then compete...
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The Tech Refresher Russia's Spies Needed
From James Bond to Johnny English, the movies give us the impression that spies are top of the tree when it comes to money-no-object espionage technology. But that...
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Taiwanese Companies Join on Cloud Computing For Asia
Taiwan's biggest telecommunications company, Chunghwa Telecom, has signed an agreement with Quanta Computer, the world's largest contract laptop maker, to jointly...
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The Challenge of Molecular Communication
Research led by Ph.D. student Sachin Kadloor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are investigating how much information can be exchanged via molecular...
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Share Information to Boost Cellphone Performance
Dartmouth College researchers led by Emiliano Miluzzo say that sharing data gathered by cell phone sensors could improve the accuracy of the data and the applications...
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Program Finds Patterns in Social Networks
University of Maryland researchers have developed the COSI program, an algorithm that supports subgraph pattern matching in very large social networks containing...
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Arrests of Alleged Spies Draws Attention to Steganography
A year ago in April, the government says, the accused operative known as Richard Murphy and his supposed wife, "Cynthia Murphy," booted up a computer in their comfy...
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Making Optical Switching More Practical For Telecom
Using all-optical controls could speed the transmission of telecommunications data, but optical switches that can work at high bandwidths need a lot of energy to...
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Pentagon
Even for the Pentagon’s science-fiction division, it seemed like a stretch. But in 2007, Darpa really did launch an effort to build programmable matter that could...
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