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Tjx Hacker Gets 20 Years in Prison
Convicted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for leading a gang of cyberthieves who stole more than 90 million credit and...
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Getting Families and Friends Together Again, Virtually
Digital media designed for individuals has hastened the demise of collective social events, but it could enable their revival as well.
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A System That's Worth Its Salt
Researchers at MIT and in Korea have developed an approach to water desalination that could lead to small, portable units powered by solar cells or batteries that...
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Move to Incorporate Computing in Math Curriculum
The first official public draft of the Common Core State Standards Initiative's K-12 standards has been released.
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3-D Haptics to Help Surgeons Feel the Cutting Edge
Deakin University robotics engineer James Mullins is leading a research effort to develop haptics technology with the goal of making a simulation as realistic as...
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Gender Discrimination Linked to Poor Project Management
A new Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology report suggests that technically oriented women may face gender discrimination in their jobs at high-tech firms...
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Google's Brin Talks About China Gamble
Behind Google Inc.'s dramatic decision to shutter its China-based search engine this week was co-founder Sergey Brin's change of heart about the compromises required...
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Clinical Trials Now Using Social Media to Attract Trial Participants
Clinic sites in 13 cities across the U.S. are looking for men to participate in an HIV vaccine study and are using social media to help reach participants where...
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Cyber Attack on U.s. Firms, Google Traced to China
An Obama administration official told The Washington Times the U.S. was able, with some confidence, to link the cyber attack on Google and other U.S. companies...
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Sandia to Break Ground For New Computational Laboratories Building
Sandia National Laboratories is breaking ground for a new facility—the Combustion Research Computation and Visualization building, part of the Combustion Research...
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Frank Moss: Tech to Help Those Who Can't Help Themselves
Frank Moss, head of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says there are real opportunities in developing technology for disabled or disadvantaged...
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Mobile Learning with iPhone Now Possible
Peruvian and Belgian researchers have developed an open source mobile learning application that enables health-care workers to connect to the free learning platform...
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Uk Promises
The U.K. Government has announced the creation of the new Institute for Web Science, to be headed by World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners Lee, and leading Web...
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Academic Paper in China Sets Off Alarms in .s.
Wang Jianwei, a graduate engineering student in Liaoning, China, who was described as a potential cyberwarrior before the United States Congress this month, says...
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National Free Software Coalition Formed in India
Delegates at the National Free Software conference in Bangalore, India, announced the formation of a national coalition, the National Free Software Movement of...
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ACM Council on Women Honors Leader in Improving Cad Performance
ACM's Council on Women in Computing has named Pennsylvania State University computer science professor Mary Jane Irwin the 2010-2011 Athena Lecturer.
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Women in It: How to Combat Misconceptions
Experts say the information technology (IT) industry needs to start appealing to women at a younger age to encourage more of them to choose it as a career.
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China Drawing High-Tech Research From .s.
U.S. companies—and their engineers—are being drawn to China more and more as the country develops a high-tech economy that increasingly competes directly with the...
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Msu Programmers Develop Land Mine Avoidance Game
Michigan State University (MSU) instructors and students are fine-tuning a computer video game designed to help unsuspecting children avoid land mines and other...
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