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Ua Researchers Developing Network For Emergency Information
University of Arkansas (UA) researchers are developing a communications network designed to maintain power during natural disasters and other emergencies.
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Poll: Most Back Obama's Use of Drones
As the 2012 election approaches, there’s one area where President Barack Obama can feel confident he has broad voter support—his military policies and use of drones...
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Web Traffic Dips 20% During Super Bowl, Yet 2.1 Million Watch Online
Fun with numbers: For the first time ever, the Super Bowl was legally streamed online here in the U.S. and, according to NBC, over 2.1 million people fired up their...
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Mit's New Free Courses May Threaten (and Improve) the Traditional Model, Program's Leader Says
In an interview, MIT provost L. Rafael Reif and professor Anant Agarwal say MITx, a new set of online courses, will be run separately from OpenCourseWare.
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How to Predict the Spread of News on Twitter
Bernardo Huberman and colleagues at Hewlett-Packard's Social Computing Lab have developed an algorithm that can predict how popular new stories will become.
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A New Question of Internet Freedom
European activists are taking a page from the recent U.S. Web protests to halt the progress of domestic antipiracy legislation, and applying similar pressure to...
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A Discussion With David Farber: Bandwidth, Cyber Security, and the Obsolescence of the Internet
Internet technology veteran David Farber projects that within a decade, computers will be outfitted with optical connections rather than pins for networking, and...
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Researchers se Social Bots To Expand Twitter Networks and Influence People
That next tweet you receive on Twitter may not be from a person but from a social bot, a tiny program designed to mimic real users and influence their behavior. ...
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Quarter of Tweets Not Worth Reading, Twitter Users Tell Researchers
Researchers evaluating tweets found that Twitter users liked just 36 percent of the tweets they received and disliked 25 percent.
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Risk-Based Passenger Screening Could Make Air Travel Safer
University of Illinois researchers recently examined the benefit of matching passenger risk with security assets and found that intensive screening of all airline...
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H-1b Workers Are Better Paid, More Educated, Study Finds
The average annual earnings of H-1B workers are about 10 percent higher than the average annual earnings of U.S. workers, after adjustments for age, occupation...
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Who Does Google Think You Are?
A tool tells users what the company infers about your interests and age.
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White House Office Studies Benefits of Video Games
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has assigned senior policy analyst Constance Steinkuehler to study video games for 18 months to determine...
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In China, Facebook Alternatives Thrive
Anticipation over Facebook Inc.'s initial public offering has fueled a recent surge in stock prices of social media companies in China, where Facebook is blocked...
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Facebook Ipo: How Does Facebook Make Its Money?
Facebook's IPO filing shows that the company brought in about $3.7 billion in revenue and made $1 billion in profit in 2011.
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Political Borders Don't Stop Cyberattacks, But They Prevent Defense, Study Finds
Real-world political borders are hindering the defense of cyberspace, according to McAfee's new Cyber Defense Report. A dearth of common standards of behavior,...
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Apple Fuels Silicon Valley Hiring Amid Bubble 2.0 Concern
Silicon Valley companies are in the midst of a hiring boom not seen since the late 1990s as nearly 50 U.S. technology companies with a market value of more than...
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sing Real-Time Road Traffic Data to Evaluate Congestion
Cambridge University researchers are working on the Transport Information Monitoring Environment (TIME) project, which aims to provide data that enables businesses...
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What The Fbi Wants In A Social Media Monitoring App
The FBI has raised eyebrows in the tech world with a public document that asks for advice on how to harvest information from social networking sites.
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