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Gym Class Without the Gym? With Technology, It's Catching On
Wearable fitness trackers are helping make online physical education more popular for students by adding the dimension of accountability.
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Chuck Peddle's $25 Microprocessor Ignited Computer Market
Engineer led team whose cheap device, launched in 1975, made desktop machines affordable.
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Chinese Hacker Group Caught Bypassing 2FA
Dutch cybersecurity firm Fox-IT said in a report that a hacker group associated with the Chinese government has been bypassing two-factor authentication (2FA) in...
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Finding a Good Read Among Billions of Choices
MIT and IBM researchers have developed a new text-analysis method for rapidly narrowing down reading material from billions of online options.
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A Computer Made From DNA Can Compute the Square Root of 900
A computer made from strands of DNA in a test tube can calculate the square root of numbers up to 900.
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Roomba Mistaken For a Burglar by Spooked Homeowners
Police called to investigate possible home intruders found a hard-working robotic vacuum instead.
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Russia Announces 'Successful Test' of Its Unplugged Internet
Russia's Ministry of Communications announced a successful test of a nationwide alternative to the Internet and claimed ordinary users did not detect any changes...
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Apple Opens Public Bug Bounty Program, Publishes Rules
Apple has formally opened its bug bounty program to all researchers and outlined the program's rules on its website. The maximum available bounty is $1.5 million...
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Scientists Demo Chip-to-Chip Quantum Teleportation in Silicon
Scientists at the University of Bristol and the Technical University of Denmark have developed chip-scale devices that are able to harness the applications of quantum...
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Israeli Government To Allocate $350 Million For Quantum Computing
Israel is entering the international quantum arms race, allocating approximately $350 million in an initiative to be a key quantum player over the next decade. ...
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Lasers Learn to Accurately Spot Space Junk
Chinese researchers have developed a set of algorithms that significantly improves the accuracy of detecting space junk in earth's orbit.
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How Classroom Technology Is Holding Students Back
Data shows that education technology in the United States has a negative impact at a range of grade levels.
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India to Build 11 New Supercomputers With Indigenous Processors
India's government has approved the building and installation of 11 new supercomputers at research institutes across the country based on indigenously developed...
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Colleges Are Turning Students' Phones Into Surveillance Machines
Dozens of colleges across the United States are using short-range phone sensors and campuswide Wi-Fi networks to monitor students' academic performance, analyze...
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Apple Has Secret Team Working on Satellites to Beam Data to Devices
Apple Inc. has a secret team working on satellite technology that the iPhone maker could use to beam Internet services directly to devices, bypassing wireless networks...
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Facebook Is Building An Operating System So It Can Ditch Android
Facebook is building an operating system from scratch so that its hardware is not at the mercy of Google and the Android operating system.
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Video Games Are Causing a National Crisis in South Korea
The World Health Organization's decision in May 2019 to add "gaming disorder" to its official catalog of illnesses has been called a vindication by some, though...
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New Study Shows Just How Bad Vehicle Hacking Has Gotten
A report from Israeli security firm Upstream paints a grim picture of the state of vehicular cybersecurity.
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Tool Uses AI to Flag Fake News for Media Fact-Checkers
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool that could help social media networks and news organizations screen out fake news.
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