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Genius and Tragedy at Dawn of Computer Age
One of the many myths about Apple is that the company's name is a reference to the half-eaten apple reportedly found beside the corpse of the British computer scientist...
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Feds Fight Homelessness With Mobile App Challenge
The U.S. departments of Veterans Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, and Health and Human Services and Bon Jovi's JBJ Soul Foundation recently launched the...
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Ancient Sites Spotted From Space, Say Archaeologists
Computer science techniques have enabled archaeologists to discover about 9,000 possible early human settlements across 23,000 square miles in northeastern Syria...
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Fbi Still Struggling With Supreme Court's Gps Ruling
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court said police had overstepped their legal authority by planting a GPS tracker on the car of a suspected drug dealer without getting...
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The Spanish Link in Cracking the Enigma Code
A pair of rare Enigma machines used in the Spanish Civil War have been given to the head of GCHQ, Britain's communications intelligence agency.
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Protesters See Tweets Used Against Them
When Jeff Rae was arrested last October with hundreds of other Occupy Wall Street protesters during a march on the Brooklyn Bridge, he decided to fight the charges...
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The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
His saga is the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large: Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents' garage in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned to rescue it from...
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Education Woes Linked to National Security
A report furnished by a U.S. task force warned that unless the American educational system improves, national security and economic prosperity will be threatened...
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After Rutgers Spycam Case, niversities Grapple With Privacy Online
The conviction of Dharun Ravi in the Rutgers webcam spying trial last week raises difficult questions for universities when it comes to protecting students online...
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The Soul of the New Hacktivist
In 1988, a Cornell graduate student, Robert Tappan Morris, let loose a computer worm on the fledgling version of the Internet. He said it was meant to be an experiment...
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Hacktivists Out-Stole Cybercriminals in 2011
Just two years ago, cybercriminal gangs were behind record-breaking data breaches that resulted in the theft of millions of customer records. But the year 2011...
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Robotics Trends For 2012
IEEE's Erico Guizzo and Hizook.com founder Travis Deyle make several predictions regarding what will be big news in robotics this year.
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Preserving Digital Data
Scientific data is expanding at an unprecedented rate. While new tools are helping preserve this data, funding must be increased and policy coordination needs improvement...
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Open For Business
Should academic articles be available for free on the Web?
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.s. Accelerating Cyberweapon Research
Former and current U.S. officials say the Pentagon is ramping up projects to develop next-generation cyberweapons that can disrupt enemy military networks even...
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DARPA Challenge Doesn't Go Viral on Twitter
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recent ended its Cash for Locating and Identifying Quick Response Codes challenge without anyone successfully...
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The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
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Ethics Fight Over Domain Name Intensifies
The U.S. Commerce Department's announcement that it will temporarily extend ICANN's current Internet Assigned Numbers Authority contract for six months instead...
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U.s. Accelerating Cyberweapon Research
The Pentagon is accelerating efforts to develop a new generation of cyberweapons capable of disrupting enemy military networks even when those networks are not...
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