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Exploring the Future With Modern Information Technology
The goal of the FuturICT global knowledge accelerator platform proposed by European researchers is to understand how the world works so that imminent crises can...
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Good Thinking, Einstein
The longest experiment in space physics began with three men in a university swimming pool arguing about Einstein. It ended Wednesday, after 52 years and $750...
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Cyber-Sleuth Sniffs Out Possible Online Threats in Homage of Osama Bin Laden
While law enforcement officers monitor airports and U.S. embassies for possible retaliatory attacks following Osama Bin Laden's death, a renowned cyber-sleuth...
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China Sets Up Office For Internet Information Management
The Chinese government announced Wednesday the setting up of an office to manage Internet information in a statement of the State Council General Office. The...
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Researchers Use Xbox Technology to Improve Programs
University of Texas at Arlington researchers are using Microsofte's Xbox Kinect technology to improve virtual sign language software.
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Engineering Universal Access For Learning
Bowie State University is promoting a universal design for learning to overcome the technological, social, and psychological barriers to equal education.
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Learning: No Longer a Textbook Case
Wake Forest University researchers are using emerging technologies to develop a new teaching method that better engages students who have learning disabilities...
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Best Practices For Keeping Your Home Network Secure
The cyber threat is no longer limited to your office network and work persona.
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How Credit Card Data Is Stolen and Sold
Last week, after the Sony PlayStation Network was attacked by a group of unknown hackers, Sony's 77 million customers, along with security specialists and government...
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Sohaib Athar on Twitter Fame After Bin Laden Raid (q&a)
As U.S. special forces assaulted Osama bin Laden's walled compound in Pakistan, a Twitter user was already recording a rough outline of the events to come. Sohaib...
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Europe Leads in Pushing For Privacy of User Data
Europe is preparing to the lead the way in establishing new regulations for user data privacy, with plans to propose extending EU-wide rules about privacy breaches...
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Online 24/7: "life Logging" Pioneer Clarifies the Future of Cloud Computing
Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell, paperless for more than a decade, envisions data centers saturated with information and services readily available via the...
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Congress to Examine Icann Plan
The U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition, and the Internet is scheduled to hold a hearing on the Internet Corporation for Assigned...
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Facebook Helps Tornado Victims Find Lost Items
People who have found items in the aftermath of the tornadoes that recently ripped through the southeastern United States are using Facebook to find the items'...
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Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Rails Against Facebook, Says It's a Spy Tool For .s. Government
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called Facebook "the most appalling spying machine ever invented" in an interview with Russia Today, pointing to the popular social...
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Pacific Biosciences' $600 Million Decoder Ring
On Apr. 28, in a factory in Menlo Park, Calif., a few black and white machines were being assembled and prepped to go into shipping crates. The machines looked...
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Autonomous Computers to Recognize and Thwart Cyberthreats
Bruce McConnell, senior counselor for cybersecurity at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, suggests that computers should be involved in protecting themselves...
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Csi Bin Laden: Commandos Use Thumb, Eye Scans to Track Terrorists
The U.S. forces that killed Osama bin Laden in his Abbottabad compound were more than expert marksmen. Some of them were forensics experts as well, using sophisticated...
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Conspiracies Say Bin Laden Lives
The decision to drop terror chieftain Osama bin Laden’s corpse into the Arabian Sea was the final meticulous step in a raid whose details were calculated to exert...
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