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Why Cisco's Flip Flopped in the Camera Business
Cisco is shutting down a business unit that it bought for over half-a-billion dollars: the Flip camcorder division. That's a shame, considering how high the Flip...
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Computer Science Enrollments Rebound, p 10% Last Fall
Computer science enrollments increased for the third consecutive year at Ph.D.-granting institutions, are up 10 percent from a year ago, but are still below the...
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.s. Lagging in sing Technology, Study Shows
The World Economic Forum's annual study on national computing and communications technology use found that the United States ranked fifth out of 138 countries for...
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Robot Could Guide Humans Through Areas of Low Visibility
Sheffield Hallam University researchers are helping to develop a robot that can guide humans in areas of low visibility. The robot, which will be slightly larger...
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Ibm's Watson Not As Smart As You Think
As smart as IBM's Watson supercomputer may have seemed while defeating two former Jeopardy champions, it wouldn't be able to hold a conversation with or speak...
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Students Turn Cell Phone Into Mobile Microscope
Students at the University of California, Davis, and the University of Central Florida have developed a way to turn smartphones into virtual microscopes that can...
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Cameras Read License Plates, Helping City's Police
When Luis Zeledon was captured by detectives, it was probably safe to say that he had not intended to be found. He was hiding in someone else’s apartment in Queens...
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Online Photos: Are They New Digital Fingerprints?
For Mike Smith, Facebook is a fort for communicating freely with friends online. Within the confines of that giant yet access-restricted network, the music-software...
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Universities, Industry Clash on Need For Open-Source Fpgas
Would open-source field-programmable gate arrays simplify academic research on reconfigurable computing? Researchers say yes, but industry disagrees.
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Facebook Opens Up Its Hardware Secrets
Facebook plans to open the designs and specifications of its new super-efficient data center. The company wants to encourage software-style openness for hardware...
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Internet Probe Can Track You Down to Within 690 Metres
Online adverts could soon start stalking you. A new way of working out where you are by looking at your internet connection could pin down your current location...
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U.s. Can Conduct Offsite Searches of Computers Seized at Borders, Court Rules
Laptop computers and other digital devices carried into the U.S. may be seized from travelers without a warrant and sent to a secondary site for forensic inspection...
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Google Manager: Technology Needs to Attract More Women
The technology industry needs to do more to bring women into the field, according to Google's Marissa Mayer. Speaking during a recent conference, Mayer said girls...
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DARPA Will Spend $20 Million to Search For Crypto's Holy Grail
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) plans to spend $20 million over five years to find a way to both encrypt data and let it be used and...
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Software Pinpoints Afghan Fighters
The ongoing military campaign against Afghan insurgents may get a boost from new computer software designed to zero in on the locations of weapons caches and...
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Students Worldwide Share Mobile Addiction
College students around the world are "strikingly similar" in their addiction to their cellphones and need to be connected to social media like Facebook, MySpace...
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Jean Bartik, Software Pioneer, Dies at 86
Jean Jennings Bartik, one of the first computer programmers and a pioneering forerunner in a technology that came to be known as software, died on March 23. She...
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Military
The Pentagon has spent decades and gazillions of dollars trying to build the perfect translation device. Now, its far-out research arm is looking at a new direction...
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What a Cyberwar With China Might Look Like
A cyberwar scenario hypothesized by former U.S. State Department diplomat Christopher Bronk in a report published in the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Studies paints...
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