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Web War Ii: What a Future Cyberwar Will Look Like
How might the blitzkrieg of the future arrive? By air strike? An invading army? In a terrorist's suitcase? In fact it could be coming down the line to a computer...
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Nhtsa Testing V2v Communication Systems, Considering Requiring Technology on New Cars
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration wants to ramp up the development and deployment of vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems, and the federal...
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CLA Researchers Combat Global Disease With a Cell Phone, Google Maps and a Lot of Ingenuity
UCLA researchers say they have developed a compact and cost-effective rapid diagnostic test-reading device that works with standard cell phones.
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Esnet Launches Architecture to Help Researchers Deliver on Data-Intensive Science
Key to the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Sciences Network's effort to supply reliable high-bandwidth network services to thousands of scientists to manage...
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Smartphone Patent Wars: The Coming Sequel
Billions of dollars are being spent to amass patent arsenals, and lawsuits are flying worldwide.
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Iranian Oil Ministry Discovers Hackers' Target
The Iranian oil ministry's cyber team has identified the main and hidden agenda of the recent cyber attack on the ministry, a senior Iranian official announced...
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Drone se Takes Off on the Home Front
With little public attention, dozens of universities and law-enforcement agencies have been given approval by federal aviation regulators to use unmanned aircraft...
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Could Iran Wage a Cyberwar on the .s.?
Security professionals in both the U.S. government and in private industry have long feared the prospect of a cyberwar with China or Russia, two states capable...
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The World's Five Biggest Cyber Threats
Criminals do not stop at stealing someone's personal data.
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What Will Nasa's Rover of the Future Look Like?
NASA recently announced the formation of the Mars Program Planning Group, which—as its title would suggest—is aimed at getting us back to Mars. The hope is to get...
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Network Your Stuff: Amateurs Inventing a New Internet
A growing number of computer hobbyists are merging the online and physical worlds in new ways.
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Voyagers' Never-Ending Journey
Exploration is one thing, science another—but they've come together rather nicely in the Voyager mission to the outer planets, outbound for the past 35 years yet...
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The Robot Revolution Is Just Beginning
When industrial robots were first introduced in the early 1960s initially on automobile assembly lines—computers were still in their infancy, so the robots were...
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High-Speed Trading: My Laser Is Faster Than Your Laser
According to its New Jersey-based operator, Hibernia Atlantic, the $300 million Project Express will be 5.2 milliseconds faster than the AC-1, with an execution...
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Hackers Attack Iranian Oil Ministry Website, Vital Data Remains Intact
A spokesman of the Iranian oil ministry confirmed a cyber attack on the ministry's data systems, but stressed that the Iranian oil industries' data has not been...
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How Big Data Is Changing Astronomy (Again)
Think of all the data humans have collected over the long history of astronomy, from the cuneiform tablets of ancient Babylon to images—like the one here—taken...
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What's a 'computer Vision Specialist' and Why Does Apple Need One?
When Apple posted a job listing last week for a "Computer Vision specialist," the tech-obsessed echo chamber began speculating which Apple product line would be...
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Intel's Ivy Bridge Chips Launch Using '3d Transistors'
The American firm says the innovation allows it to offer more computational power while using less energy.
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This Supercomputer Is Rethinking the Future of Software
The International Center of Excellence for Computational Science and Engineering's Daresbury lab recently installed an IBM BlueGene/Q supercomputer in order to...
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