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­.s. Companies Seek Cyber Experts For Top Jobs, Board Seats
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­.s. Companies Seek Cyber Experts For Top Jobs, Board Seats

Some of the largest U.S. companies are looking to hire cybersecurity experts in newly elevated positions and bring technologists on to their boards, a sign that...

A Tour of Bletchley Park: Codebreaking that Helped Win Wwii, and the Birthplace of the Modern Computer
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A Tour of Bletchley Park: Codebreaking that Helped Win Wwii, and the Birthplace of the Modern Computer

MI6 called it Station X.

Robots As Furniture?
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Robots As Furniture?

Planning the menu for a dinner party in a tiny apartment can be far easier than making sure guests have a place to sit: Many apartment dwellers simply don’t have...

Get Ready For the Computers of the Future
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Get Ready For the Computers of the Future

Sandia National Laboratories computer scientists are exploring ways next-generation computers can make performance gains while reducing energy consumption. 

Brokers ­se 'billions' of Data Points to Profile Americans
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Brokers ­se 'billions' of Data Points to Profile Americans

Are you a financially strapped working mother who smokes?

Going Dark: The Internet Behind the Internet
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Going Dark: The Internet Behind the Internet

The average computer user with an Internet connection has access to an amazing wealth of information. But there's also an entire world that's invisible to your...

Google’s Experimental Smartphone Captures a Future Mapped in 3D
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Google’s Experimental Smartphone Captures a Future Mapped in 3D

Google's Project Tango prototype Android smartphone could make it easier, faster, and less expensive to scan and map the world in 3D. 

Cloud and Supercomputing Cooperate in Molecular Dynamics Research
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Cloud and Supercomputing Cooperate in Molecular Dynamics Research

The director of the biophysics program at Stanford University says cloud computing and supercomputing technologies are bothnecessary for many fields of study.

Can Killer Robots Learn to Follow the Rules of War?
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Can Killer Robots Learn to Follow the Rules of War?

As Memorial Day reminds us every year, war doesn't go away.

­sing Thoughts to Control Airplanes
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­sing Thoughts to Control Airplanes

Pilots of the future could be able to control their aircraft by merely thinking commands.

Sunsets on Titan Reveal the Complexity of Hazy Exoplanets
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Sunsets on Titan Reveal the Complexity of Hazy Exoplanets

Scientists working with data from NASA's Cassini mission have developed a new way to understand the atmospheres of exoplanets by using Saturn's smog-enshrouded...

How Statisticians Found Air France Flight 447 Two Years After It Crashed Into Atlantic
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How Statisticians Found Air France Flight 447 Two Years After It Crashed Into Atlantic

"In the early morning hours of June 1, 2009, Air France Flight AF 447, with 228 passengers and crew aboard, disappeared during stormy weather over the Atlantic...

Supercomputers ­sed to Model Disaster Scenarios
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Supercomputers ­sed to Model Disaster Scenarios

Bangor University School of Computer Science researchers are using supercomputers to run programs that can predict how people will react in a disaster. 

Google's 'quantum Computing Playground' Lets You Fiddle With Quantum Algorithms
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Google's 'quantum Computing Playground' Lets You Fiddle With Quantum Algorithms

Google has released a new Web-based integrated development environment that enables users to experiment with quantum algorithms. 

Mint Program Helps Pinpoint Threats Contained in Intelligence Data
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Mint Program Helps Pinpoint Threats Contained in Intelligence Data

Researchers are working to improve the capabilities of the U.S. Multi-Disciplinary Intelligence system, which monitors incoming intelligence data.

Google ­ses Artificial Brains to Teach Its Data Centers How to Behave
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Google ­ses Artificial Brains to Teach Its Data Centers How to Behave

At Google, artificial intelligence isn't just a means of building cars that drive on their own, smartphone services that respond to the spoken word, and online...

Meet the People Behind the Wayback Machine, One of Our Favorite Things About the Internet
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Meet the People Behind the Wayback Machine, One of Our Favorite Things About the Internet

Brewster Kahle is quick to point out that we are not standing inside a former Scientology church.

Swarm and Fuzzy
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Swarm and Fuzzy

When the first human colonists land on Mars several decades from now, their habitat will already be waiting.

B-52 Bomber Gets Its First New Communications System Since the 1960s
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B-52 Bomber Gets Its First New Communications System Since the 1960s

The B-52 bomber, one of the great stalwarts of America's military arsenal, is getting its first major communications system upgrade since the Kennedy administration...

The Trouble With IBM
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The Trouble With IBM

In the summer of 2012, five American technology companies bid on a project for a demanding new client: the CIA.
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