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.s. Companies Are at Risk of Spying By Their Own Workers
Huang Kexue, federal authorities say, is a new kind of spy. For five years, Mr. Huang was a scientist at a Dow Chemical lab in Indiana, studying ways to improve...
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John Sculley: The Secrets of Steve Jobs' Success
In 1983, Steve Jobs wooed Pepsi executive John Sculley to Apple with one of the most famous lines in business: "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling...
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Tech Hiring p Almost 50 Percent Since 2009, Dice Says
A recent Dice report found that the number of full-time U.S. technology jobs has increased 46 percent since last year, while contractors' hourly rates are rising...
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Cell Phone Is 'gadget of Choice' For Americans
U.S. consumers crave their gadgets, but the cell phone rules them all, according to a new Pew Internet study.
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Darpa Seeks to Shape Young Minds
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched an initiative to increase the number of computer science graduates by using a variety of online...
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Malware Aimed at Social Networks May Steal Your Reality
A research paper predicts a new generation of malware that will target and extract information about relationships and record patterns of behavior in real-world...
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Cyberwars Already nderway, With No Geneva Conventions
Cyber attacks of various sorts have been around for decades. University at Buffalo military ethicist Randall R. Dipert says we have good reason to worry, because...
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For Baseball Archivists, a Tag Ends Every Play
Most baseball fans saw it as a dribbler in front of the plate, a throw to first and the completion of a no-hitter for Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay...
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MIT to Strengthen Ties to China
The MIT-Greater China Strategy Working Group has released a report setting forth guidelines and recommendations for the future of MIT's relationship with mainland...
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Cellphones Reveal Emerging Disease Outbreaks
Your cellphone could be a key tool in the fight against disease by relaying a telltale signature of illness to doctors and agencies monitoring new outbreaks.
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'scrapers' Dig Deep For Data on Web
At 1 a.m. on May 7, the website PatientsLikeMe.com noticed suspicious activity on its "Mood" discussion board. There, people exchange highly personal stories...
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Babies Treat 'social Robots' as Sentient Beings
University of Washington researchers report that babies who watched a robot interact socially with people were more willing to learn from the robot than babies...
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Construction nderway on Binghamton niversity's Center of Excellence Facility
SUNY Binghamton has launched construction of its New York State Center of Excellence in Small Scale Systems Integration and Packaging building. The facility will...
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Call to Define Rules of Cyber War
Nations need to define the rules of engagement for acts of cyber terror.
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China's Fastest Supercomputer nveiled
It will not be long before China's "Tianhe-1" supercomputer is to be equipped with Chinese-made central processing unit chips, replacing the only part of the computer...
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Improving Phones Through Surveillance
Apps that track how people use their phones could help make the devices more efficient.
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Robot Arm Punches Human to Obey Asimov's Rules
Isaac Asimov would probably have been horrified at the experiments under way in a robotics lab in Slovenia. There, a powerful robot has been hitting people over...
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Eerie Female Robot Learns to 'sing' By Copying Human Singer
The life-sized humanoid robot known as HRP-4 has been taught to sing using synthesized voice technology. The robot is also able to mimic the expressions of a human...
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How Energy-Efficient Is Cloud Computing?
University of Melbourne researchers have found that cloud computing is not always the most energy-efficient option.T he team found that transporting data between...
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