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­CLA Researchers Combat Global Disease With a Cell Phone, Google Maps and a Lot of Ingenuity
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­CLA Researchers Combat Global Disease With a Cell Phone, Google Maps and a Lot of Ingenuity

UCLA researchers say they have developed a compact and cost-effective rapid diagnostic test-reading device that works with standard cell phones.  

Iranian Oil Ministry Discovers Hackers' Target
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Iranian Oil Ministry Discovers Hackers' Target

The Iranian oil ministry's cyber team has identified the main and hidden agenda of the recent cyber attack on the ministry, a senior Iranian official announced...

Drone ­se Takes Off on the Home Front
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Drone ­se Takes Off on the Home Front

With little public attention, dozens of universities and law-enforcement agencies have been given approval by federal aviation regulators to use unmanned aircraft...

Papers From Collective Intelligence 2012 Conference Now Online
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Papers From Collective Intelligence 2012 Conference Now Online

MIT recently hosted the Collective Intelligence 2012 conference, which gave collective intelligence experts an opportunity to review papers about behavior that...

Voting Information Project Takes Aim at Open Data, Social Media
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Voting Information Project Takes Aim at Open Data, Social Media

The Pew Center on the States and several technology companies recently launched the Voting Information Project, which enables Foursquare users to receive an "I...

Could Iran Wage a Cyberwar on the ­.s.?
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Could Iran Wage a Cyberwar on the ­.s.?

Security professionals in both the U.S. government and in private industry have long feared the prospect of a cyberwar with China or Russia, two states capable...

The World's Five Biggest Cyber Threats
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The World's Five Biggest Cyber Threats

Criminals do not stop at stealing someone's personal data.

Engineering a Safer World
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Engineering a Safer World

MIT professor Nancy Leveson recently hosted a workshop to educate more than 250 safety engineering professionals from around the world about System-Theoretic Accident...

Network Your Stuff: Amateurs Inventing a New Internet
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Network Your Stuff: Amateurs Inventing a New Internet

A growing number of computer hobbyists are merging the online and physical worlds in new ways.  

Scanning the Brain For Impending Error
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Scanning the Brain For Impending Error

University of Arizona researchers are using new technology to predict in advance when people will make a mistake on the standard math section of the College Board's...

Nasa's Space Apps Competition Takes on Big Ideas
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Nasa's Space Apps Competition Takes on Big Ideas

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration recently held its first International Space Apps Challenge, attracting participants from 24 countries for...

Vint Cerf: We Knew What We Were ­nleashing on the World
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Vint Cerf: We Knew What We Were ­nleashing on the World

Vint Cerf invented the protocol that rules them all: TCP/IP.

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The Guardian's Open 20: Fighters For Internet Freedom

From politicians and professors to computer scientists and the first programmer, champions of the open Internet.

An Algorithm For Preserving Art
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An Algorithm For Preserving Art

Technology ReviewThe Metropolitan Museum of Art's Paolo Dionisi and IBM researchers have deployed 120 low-power temperature and humidity sensors in an attempt to...

Hackers Attack Iranian Oil Ministry Website, Vital Data Remains Intact
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Hackers Attack Iranian Oil Ministry Website, Vital Data Remains Intact

A spokesman of the Iranian oil ministry confirmed a cyber attack on the ministry's data systems, but stressed that the Iranian oil industries' data has not been...

­. of Florida Dean Proposes to Save Money By Revising Faculty Jobs to Focus on Teaching, Not Research
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­. of Florida Dean Proposes to Save Money By Revising Faculty Jobs to Focus on Teaching, Not Research

The University of Florida College of Engineering is proposing to revise the assignments of some of its tenured faculty in the computer science department to focus...

New Institute to Tackle 'data Tsunami' Challenge
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New Institute to Tackle 'data Tsunami' Challenge

U.S. Department of Energy Argonne National Laboratory researchers recently received part of a $25 million grant to address the problem of extracting knowledge from...

Iran Decodes U.S. Drone Intel
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Iran Decodes U.S. Drone Intel

Senior Iranian military officials announced that the country's experts have decoded the intelligence gathering system and memory hard discs of the United States'...

Secret Computer Code Threatens Science
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Secret Computer Code Threatens Science

Although modern science calls for researchers to share their work so that their peers can verify the success or failure of experiments, most researchers still do...

Software Helps Spot Groups of Fake Online Reviews
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Software Helps Spot Groups of Fake Online Reviews

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Google have developed software that can identify groups of fraudulent online reviews that attempt to...
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