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Linux Foundation Takes Linux Pulse in Progress Report
The Linux Foundation has updated its progress report on Linux kernel development for the fourth time.
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Is It Time For Javascript to Step Aside For the Next Big 'web' Thing?
At Microsoft's recent Lang.Next conference, a panel of experts discussed various aspects of programming, agreeing that JavaScript is an unforgiving language but...
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Iran Moving Ahead with Plans for National Intranet
Iran topped a recent list of repressive regimes that most aggressively restrict Internet freedom. The list, published by Reporters Without Borders, is a part of...
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Nasa Views Our Perpetually Moving Ocean
The swirling flows of Earth's perpetually changing ocean come to life in a new NASA scientific visualization that captures the movement of tens of thousands of...
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Ford Is Ready For the Autonomous Car. Are Drivers?
The auto industry has already developed all the technology necessary to create truly autonomous vehicles, Ford engineers claim.
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Mobile Apps Reach Internet Tipping Point
June 2011 appears to be the first time people in the U.S. spent more time online with apps than with the Web.
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Company Wants to Pull Small Town Pay Phones
Phone service was spotty in Chambers before the two new nearby cell towers.
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A Little Device That's Trying to Read Your Thoughts
Already surrounded by machines that allow him, painstakingly, to communicate, the physicist Stephen Hawking last summer donned what looked like a rakish black headband...
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Beware Apps Bearing Unwanted Gifts
As companies increasingly allow workers to use personal smartphones and tablets on the job, they are confronting a potential new security threat: malicious software...
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Researchers Release New Exploits to Hijack Critical Infrastructure
Researchers have released two new exploits that attack common design vulnerabilities in a computer component used to control critical infrastructure, such as refineries...
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Google's Project Glass Engineers: Who Are They?
Google’s Project Glass has put new focus on Google X, the lab at the tech giant where engineers work to develop the next big thing.
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Verizon Envisions 4g Wireless in Just About Anything
Tucked away in a new office block in Waltham, Massachusetts, is a kind of wireless Tomorrowland.
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Simulation Software Optimizes Networks
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI have developed the Multiphysical Network Simulation Framework, which can be...
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MIT Team Thinks Outside the Box to Snag Social Media Prize
A team affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won the U.S. State Department's social media contest, the TAG Challenge, which required participants...
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Would You Pay to Block Your Own Internet Connection?
Carnegie Mellon University researcher Fred Stutzman has developed productivity apps designed to maintain workers' focus on tasks and prevent them from being distracted...
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Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses
If you venture into a coffee shop in the coming months and see someone with a pair of futuristic glasses that look like a prop from "Star Trek," don’t worry.
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A Billion Stars Revealed
Astronomers have released a picture containing more than one billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy.
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