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Iran's Liberals and Conservatives Argue Over Internet Restrictions
When Iran's authorities started to block websites such as YouTube and Wikipedia in 2006, only a tenth of the population used the Internet.
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Oco-2 Data to Lead Scientists Forward Into the Past
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, which launched on July 2, will soon be providing about 100,000 high-quality measurements each day of carbon dioxide concentrations...
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Travis County Developing Electronic Voting System With a Paper Trail
An electronic-voting system that prints out a paper copy of the ballot and a take-home receipt is under development and could be in operation within three years...
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For Tv 'white Spaces,' the Global Outlook Is Hopeful but Cautious
Developed and developing markets' spectrum policies are starting to accommodate TV white spaces.
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How Can a Civilian Plane Accidentally Be Shot Down?
Pro-Russian separatists may have shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine on Thursday because they mistook the civilian plane for something else...
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In Gaza, Epithets Are Fired and Euphemisms Give Shelter
The Gaza-based interior ministry advises its supporters in a YouTube video that whenever talking about the dead, "always add 'an innocent citizen.' "
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Neuroscience: 'i Can Read Your Mind'
Jack Gallant can read your mind. Or at least, he can figure out what you're seeing if you're in his machine watching a movie he's playing for you.
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Air Force Research: How to se Social Media to Control People Like Drones
Facebook isn't the only organization conducting research into how attitudes are affected by social media.
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Fiendish Wheat Genome Reveals Grain's History
A draft genome sequence of wheat promises to speed efforts to breed new types of one of the world's most important crops — and to reveal the tangled genomic history...
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As China Stalks Satellites, .S. and Japan Prepare to Defend Them
In May 2013 the Chinese government conducted what it called a science space mission from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China.
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Nsa Recruits College Students For Cyber-Operations Program
The U.S. National Security Agency has selected five more schools for its Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations Program.
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The Moral Hazards and Legal Conundrums of Our Robot-Filled Future
The robots are coming, and they're getting smarter.
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Vancouver Coding Camp Seeks Young Women
Be Like Ada is a Vancouver, Canada-based coding boot camp for girls designed to inspire more women to pursue coding in engineering and computer science.
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Adding Depth to Mobile Imaging
Google's Project Tango aims to provide an additional dimension to the next generation of mobile devices.
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How Russian Hackers Stole the Nasdaq
In October 2010, a Federal Bureau of Investigation system monitoring U.S. Internet traffic picked up an alert.
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For This Author, 10,000 Wikipedia Articles Is a Good Day's Work
Sverker Johansson could be the most prolific author you've never heard of.
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FCC Is Deluged With Comments on Net Neutrality Rules
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has already received about 780,000 comments on new open Internet rules.
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Hamas and Israel Step p Cyber Battle For Hearts and Minds
Sites such as Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook have been inundated with posts seeking to win the hearts and minds of people in the Middle East and elsewhere in the...
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Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf Discusses the Fate of the Internet W/ Stephen Colbert (video)
Vint Cerf, Google Chief Internet Evangelist and general co-father of the Internet, stopped by The Colbert Report on Comedy Central to discuss the origins of the...
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