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Facebook Offers Poor Personal Data Protection
A study of Norwegian Internet users and social media found that people are willing to post their personal information on social media sites even when they are not...
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Hackers Create Tools For Disaster Relief
The first-ever Random Hacks of Kindness recently took place in Mountain View, Calif., bringing software developers together to focus on how technology could be...
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Feds Mull Rules, Fees to Spur Net Access
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is debating whether it should force Internet service providers (ISPs) to share their networks with rivals and increase...
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Georgia Tech Launches Experimental Green It Initiative
The biggest challenge in computing today, some experts say, is not processing power, but power consumption. To help understand and reduce power consumption, the...
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Improving Security With Face Recognition Technology
University of Miami professor Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb has developed a new way to improve the efficiency and accuracy of facial recognition technology. Abdel-Mottaleb...
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Moscow Wants Trained It Specialists
Amid Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's calls for modernization, one of the IT sector's top employers has said Russian high-tech companies are being let down by...
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Petascale Tools Could Provide Deeper Insight Into Genomic Evolution
Research recently funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 aims to develop computational tools that will utilize next-generation petascale computers...
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Georgia Tech Creates Online Master's Degree in Information Security
Georgia Tech's College of Computing has created a new Master of Science in Information Security degree available online in a distance learning format, a flexible...
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India Prof Tips Fastest Prime Number Detection Algorithm
Manindra Agrawal, an Indian professor who developed a deterministic polynomial time algorithm for detecting prime numbers, will receive the 2009 G.D. Birla Award...
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Minority Students Earned Greater Number of Degrees in Fiscal 2006
Students in underserved populations earned a greater number of academic diplomas in almost all categories in fiscal year 2006 compared to fiscal year 2004, according...
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Tinkering Makes Comeback Amid Crisis
The economic crisis and the reduced costs of high-tech tools and materials are fueling a resurgence in tinkering and experimentation. U.S. engineering schools...
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Face-Recognition Technology May Be sed at Hong Kong Border Checks
Face-recognition technology might be used to screen the residents at Hong Kong border checkpoints, Hong Kong's Security Secretary Ambrose Lee said Thursday (Nov...
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3-D Software Gives Doctors, Students a View Inside the Body
James Oliver picked up an Xbox game controller, looked up to a video screen and used the device's buttons and joystick to fly through a patient's chest cavity for...
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Software Looks to Solve Life-Threatening Medical Puzzles
New software is under development that doctors hope will help them identify brain tumours in children that will grow aggressively. A new software tool can integrate...
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Theme-Park Dummy Trick Becomes Teleconference Tool
A trick used in theme-park animatronics could help people act more naturally during videoconferences. Shader lamps is a technique that projects an animated face...
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Digital Cloud Plan For City Skies
A giant "digital cloud" that would "float" above London's skyline has been outlined by an international team of architects, artists and engineers. The construction...
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Wi-Fi Certification Might Be Tweaked For Smart Grids
The Wi-Fi Alliance has formed a task group to determine what standards need to be modified to ensure Wi-Fi is the tool of choice for smart-grid applications. The...
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What Happens When Good Robots Go 'bad'?
A study by University of Washington researchers led by doctoral student Tamara Denning calls attention to the possibility of household robots being hacked by malevolent...
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Nasa Showcases 'green' Missions at Sc09 Conference
Milestones by five NASA research centers in the fields of science, engineering, and technology will be showcased at the ACM-sponsored SC09 supercomputing conference...
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