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How Yahoo Spawned Hadoop, the Future of Big Data
The email went to Eric14. His real name is Eric Baldeschwieler, but no one calls him that. At fourteen letters, Baldeschwieler is a mouthful, and he works in...
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Science Fiction-Style Sabotage a Fear in New Hacks
The U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit, a nonprofit group that helps the U.S. government identify vulnerabilities for cyberattacks, has replicated the recent attack that...
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Are Drones Creating a New Global Arms Race?
Plastic tanks and miniature models of fighter jets are on display in Steven Zaloga's home office, and his bookshelves are overflowing with volumes about the history...
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Screen Time Higher Than Ever for Children
Jaden Lender, 3, sings along softly with the "Five Little Monkeys" app on the family iPad, and waggles his index finger along with the monkey doctor at the warning...
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Ramcloud: When Disks and Flash Memory Are Just Too Slow
Stanford University researchers have developed RAMCloud, a scalable, high performance storage approach that can store data in dynamic random access memory and aggregate...
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How an Extinct Zebra Could Upend the Networking Market
The Internet Systems Consortium has created a project to stabilize the code base for Quagga, an open source networking program, and offer commercial support to...
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Cloud Computing: Gaps in the 'cloud'
Ruhr-University Bochum researchers discovered a massive security gap at Amazon Cloud Services and presented their findings at the recent ACM Cloud Computing Security...
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Transparent, Super-Stretchy Skin-Like Sensor
Using carbon nanotubes bent to act as springs, Stanford researchers have developed a stretchable, transparent skin-like sensor that can be stretched to more than...
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Revealed
As protests against financial power sweep the world, science may have confirmed the protesters' worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational...
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Did Android Copy Ios? We Asked Google's Product Manager...
Has Android copied elements from Apple's iOS? It's not a matter that Google's senior managers for the Android operating system want to get involved in.
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How Revolutionary Tools Cracked a 1700s Code
It has been more than six decades since Warren Weaver, a pioneer in automated language translation, suggested applying code-breaking techniques to the challenge...
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11 Most Startling Revelations in 'steve Jobs'
Full disclosure: Steve Jobs was my white whale, the interview I wanted more than any other and the day he died I fashioned a black band across the Apple logo...
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The Shocking Strangeness of Our 25-Year-Old Digital Privacy Law
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) was signed into law on October 21, 1986. Although it was forward-looking at the time, ECPA's privacy protections...
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Meet Arm's Cortex A15: The Future of the Ipad, and Possibly the Macbook Air
In addition to unveiling its Cortex A7 processor last Wednesday, the press event was also a sort of second debut for the Cortex A15. The A15 will go into ARM...
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Intel Faces Colossal Clash
Written off by some critics as a doomed dinosaur, stuck in the tar pit of a stalling personal computer market, Intel is headed for a colossal clash as it scrambles...
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Why Computer Voices Are Mostly Female
To most owners of the new iPhone, the voice-activated feature called Siri is more than a virtual "assistant" who can help schedule appointments, find a good nearby...
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Risky Business
Governments, companies, and individuals have suffered an unusual number of highly publicized data breaches this year. Is there a solution?
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Hacking Cars
Researchers have discovered important security flaws in modern automobile systems. Will car thieves learn to pick locks with their laptops?
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Modeling Chaotic Storms
Scientists say improvements to extreme-weather prediction are possible with new weather models and a reinvention of the modeling technologies used to process them...
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