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Government Surveillance of Social Networks Challenged
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley Law School filed a lawsuit...
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Ibm: Envisioning the World's Fastest Supercomputer
IBM will release a new Power7 chip next year that could lead to the development of the world's fastest supercomputer. The IBM Blue Waters project supercomputer...
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Power Lines and Tv Deliver Communications to Remote Brazil
A cheap way to deliver interactive communications to remote communities has been successfully tested in Brazil and Italy.
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Mathematical Models Could Track Gossip, and Terrorists
Thanks to the Internet and online social networks (OSNs) news and gossip now spread seemingly without any order. But according Ryerson University researcher Anthony...
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Local Governments Offer Data to Software Trackers
Local governments are trying to make government data more accessible to citizens, and some are turning over data to programmers to make it more usable. One example...
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Californians and Cell Phones to Help Computer Scientists Track Air Pollution
Computer scientists at University of California, San Diego are creating a network of environmental sensors that will help identify air pollution hot spots. The...
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MIT Red Balloon Team Wins DARPA Network Challenge
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced that the MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team won the $40,000 cash prize in the DARPA Network Challenge...
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Cellphones Team p to Make Wi-Fi Where You Want It
Scientists at Microsoft Research India and colleagues at the University of California, Santa Barbara have developed Cool-Tether, a system that combines the Internet...
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Smart Grid Potential Gated By Broadband
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission recently held a field hearing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to discuss the role of the communications...
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Survivor Buddy Robot Becomes Interface to World
A joint project between Texas A&M and Stanford universities is developing a rescue robot capable of connecting trapped victims with the outside world. The robot...
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Squeezing Web Sites Onto Cellphones
When a group of engineers at National Instruments Corp. modified a 1988 Oldsmobile so it could be controlled by an iPhone, the company was quick to share the project...
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Darpa's Latest Challenge: Locate These 10 Balloons
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will award $40,000 to the first person who can complete a new social-networking challenge. DARPA wants to...
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NIST Develops Experimental Validation Tool for Cell Phone Forensics
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new technique aimed at improving the validation of a crime lab's cell phone...
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Researchers Create Shape-Shifting Antennas
Research from North Carolina State University is revolutionizing the field of antenna design — creating shape-shifting antennas that open the door to a host of...
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Cell Phones to Provide Picture of Human Interaction
Pennsylvania State University (PSU) researchers are studying how emotions, physical health, and personal interactions affect individuals and those they interact...
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Magic Box For Mission Impossible
Inspired by the struggles rescue workers faced following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, researchers in Norway, Spain, and Finland launched the CELTIC project...
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Proper se of English Could Get a Virus Past Security
Johns Hopkins University security researcher Josh Mason says hackers could potentially evade most existing antivirus programs by hiding malicious code within ordinary...
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niversity nites Industry, Gov to Tighten Energy Sector Cybersecurity
A Rice University program created to engage the energy industry and government about protecting power plants from cyberattacks hosted Dale Meyerrose, former CIO...
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Project Formalizes Semantic Search Ontologies
European researchers have created new tools for semantic technology development which are helping to set the next generation of official standards. The tools also...
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