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A Peek Inside China's Internet Giants and Their Massive Scale
Here's the thing about China: It's very, very big.
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At Ces, Chinese Electronics Giants Compete For American Eyes
You’ve heard the complaints. The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is too unwieldy and too outdated for tech titans such as Apple, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft...
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Looking Forward to a Future Internet
The future of the Internet was in doubt heading into December and the World Conference on International Telecommunications. Neither those who want to control the...
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Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Meeting
The recent U.S. National Science Foundation Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Principal Investigator Meeting gave NSF an opportunity to build the community of principal...
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Chattanooga Tests Ultra-Fast System for Disaster Response
Chattanooga, Tenn., will test a system that will run computerized disaster scenarios using a detailed layout of the city, with the goal of training emergency workers...
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How Fast Does 'Virtual Reality' Have to Be to Look Like 'Actual Reality'?
For decades now, virtual reality has been a pipe dream concept, well ahead of the technology needed to realize it.
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Digital Globes Offer a Dynamic Vision
In the main hall of the hands-on science exhibits at the Cape Town Science Center in South Africa, a lifeless, tattered globe stands under naked fluorescent bulbs...
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Mapping Malware's Genome to Fight Future Attacks
Every year a computer worm emerges to stalk the Internet, each one seemingly bigger and badder than the last (see diagram).
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U.s. Library of Congress Saving 500 Million Tweets Per Day in Archives
The U.S. Library of Congress expects to finish the initial stage of building a Twitter archive by the end of January. The Library is storing 500 million tweets...
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Student Suspended For Refusing to Wear Rfid Tracker Loses Lawsuit
A Texas high school student who claimed her student identification was the "Mark of the Beast" because it was implanted with a radio-frequency identification chip...
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Vint Cerf: Internet Competition Has 'evaporated' Since Dial-p
Vint Cerf, co-creator of the Internet, said he is troubled by the prospect of companies like AT&T avoiding government regulation after the transition from traditional...
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U.s. Nuclear Lab Removes Chinese Tech Over Security Fears
A leading U.S. nuclear weapons laboratory recently discovered its computer systems contained some Chinese-made network switches and replaced at least two components...
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It's All About the Genes and the Brain Machines
The amount of time and money needed to sequence genomes continued to fall in 2012, perhaps to no one’s surprise.
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Feds Requiring 'black Boxes' in All Motor Vehicles
While many automakers have voluntarily installed the devices already, the National Transportation Safety Agency wants to hear your comments by February 11 on its...
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Iran Designing Software For Controlled Social Media Access
Iran is designing intelligent software that would give its citizens limited access to social networking Web sites, according to a local media report.
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Computer Scientists Find Vulnerabilities in Cisco Voip Phones
Columbia University researchers have found significant vulnerabilities in Cisco voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) telephones, and have demonstrated how they can...
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2013: The Year of the Internet of Things
Researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization have shown how enabling technologies have rapidly matured and that the Internet...
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North Korean Students Show Google Chief How They Search Web
Students at North Korea's premier university have showed Google's executive chairman how they look for information online: they Google it.
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Antarctic Irc: How Nasa's Flying Lab Stays Connected
Mars and Antarctica have a lot in common: They're both cold, inhospitable places with terrible broadband service.
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