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Leonard Kleinrock, the Tx-2 and the Seeds of the Internet
It was 4:00 in the morning, and Leonard Kleinrock was sitting inside MIT's Lincoln Laboratory on the outskirts of Boston, hunched in front of a massive computer...
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Proposed Space Boat Could Explore Lakes on Saturn's Moon Titan
While rovers are ideal for exploring Mars, a boat is best for Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
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Online Education Grows Up, and For Now, It's Free
Online education isn't particularly new. It has been around in some form since the 1990s, but what is new is the speed and scale in which online learning is growing...
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More Mobile News Consumers Choosing Web Over Apps
Mobile apps were supposed to be the reset button for the news industry.
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Commander: Iranian Cyber Forces Easily Access Enemies' Highly Classified Info
Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps Navy Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi stressed the high capability of the country's cyberwar experts, and said the Iranian...
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Google Leapfrogs Microsoft in Market Value
For Microsoft, it was bad enough when Apple's stock market value surpassed its own in 2010. Now Google, a company that didn't even exist 15 years ago, just did...
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U.s. Law Enforcement Is Tracking Who Calls, Texts, and Emails Whom More Often Than Ever Before
Law enforcement isn't just interested in what Americans are saying on the phone or on the Internet.
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Apple Designs the Future
It’s impossible to look anywhere these days without noticing how profoundly Apple has influenced design and computing interfaces.
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Mobile Ads: Here's What Works and What Doesn't
In 2010, Apple Inc. AAPL co-founder Steve Jobs proclaimed, "Mobile advertising really sucks." Now, however, the rule book for what works in mobile advertising is...
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Next p: Environmentally Safe Electronics That Also Vanish in the Body
University of Illinois researchers say they have developed biodegradable electronics technology that could lead to new design paradigms for a wide range of applications...
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Power, Pollution, and the Internet
Jeff Rothschild's machines at Facebook had a problem he knew he had to solve immediately. They were about to melt.
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Larry Roberts Calls Himself the Founder of the Internet. Who Are You to Argue?
In 1966, the U.S. Department of Defense hired Roberts to design the ARPAnet, a computer network that would connect various research outfits across the country.
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Automatic Building Mapping Could Help Emergency Responders
MIT researchers have built a wearable sensor system that automatically creates a digital map of the environment through which the wearer is moving.
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Google Spans Entire Planet With Gps-Powered Database
A new Google research paper details the workings of the Spanner data storage and compilation system, billed as the first database capable of quickly storing and...
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Warehouse 'bots Do Battle to Make Same-Day Delivery a Reality
The robots zipping across the aluminum grid look less like Star Wars droids and more like little red wagons.
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On Waterfront, Rise of the Machines
In the rising light of a mid-September morning, the CSAV Pyrenees, a blue-water freighter sailing out of Suape Port in Brazil, was lashed to its lines at BerthPort...
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Nasa Rover Finds Old Streambed on Martian Surface
NASA's Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once ran vigorously across the area on Mars where the rover is driving.
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Apple-Google Maps Talks Crashed Over Voice-Guided Directions
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt says Apple should have continued to use Google’s mapping application in iOS 6 instead of swapping it out for its poorly received home...
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Why Your Next 'passw0rd' Might Not Be a Password
It's been a rough year for passwords. First, 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords were leaked online. Soon after, millions of passwords from eHarmony and Yahoo users...
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