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Ready For the Robot Revolution?
Robots are about to invade our lives. From performing household chores, to entertaining and educating our children, to looking after the elderly, roboticists...
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Nasa Plans High-Speed Space Communications System
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is developing a laser-based optical communications system that will be able to move data at rates...
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Which Telecoms Store Your Data the Longest? Secret Memo Tells All
The nation’s major mobile-phone providers are keeping a treasure trove of sensitive data on their customers, according to newly released Justice Department internal...
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Dealing With an Identity Hijacked on the Online Highway
Despite his prominent position as a Republican candidate for president, Rick Santorum has lost control of his online identity. And for all the snickering online...
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Idaho Laboratory Analyzed Stuxnet Computer Virus
Behind the doors of a nondescript red brick and gray building of the Idaho National Laboratory is the malware laboratory where government cyber experts analyzed...
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In China, Business Travelers Take Extreme Precautions to Avoid Cyber-Espionage
Packing for business in China? Bring your passport and business cards, but maybe not that laptop loaded with contacts and corporate memos.
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Autonomous Flying Robots Flock Like Birds
At Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale’s Laboratory of Intelligence Systems in Lausanne, Sabine Hauert and Dario Floreano have found a way to make small, fixed-wing...
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Authenticity of Web Pages nder Attack By Hackers
The underlying security of the Internet is under attack, and security professionals have become very concerned about their ability to protect users' most sensitive...
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Will Super Wi-Fi Live p to Its Name?
It's likely that a few years from now, Americans' laptops, smart phones, and other wireless devices will be able to get online using "Super Wi-Fi," a new standard...
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There Is Life on Mars! Just One Catch
NASA's Planetary Protection Officer Catharine A. Conley says that we've already contaminated the Red Planet with organisms from Earth.
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The 'worm' That Could Bring Down the Internet
For the past three years, a highly encrypted computer worm called Conficker has been spreading rapidly around the world. As many as 12 million computers have...
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Drone Makers Seek Out New Targets
Almost a century after the first pilot-less plane was test launched from the back of a truck in the English village of Upavon, unmanned aircraft vehicles, or...
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Dhs Thinks Some Scada Problems Are Too Big To Call "bug"
The Stuxnet worm may be the most famous piece of malicious software ever written. When it was first detected, a little over a year ago, the worm sounded a warning...
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Security Expert: .s. 'leading Force' Behind Stuxnet
German cybersecurity expert Ralph Langner warns that U.S. utility companies are not yet prepared to deal with the threat presented by the Stuxnet computer worm...
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Net Neutrality Rules Published, Lawsuits Soon to Follow
The FCC has finally officially published long-delayed rules prohibiting cable, DSL, and wireless internet companies from blocking Web sites and requiring them...
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Software Upgrades Could Produce Self-Tuning Wireless Access Points, Researchers Say
University of Wisconsin, Madison researchers have developed Airshark, software that enables wireless access points to automatically detect radio-frequency interference...
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Setting Boundaries For Internet Privacy
Watchful European privacy regulators are wielding increasing influence beyond the Continent’s borders.
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Sdsc Announces Scalable, High-Performance Data Storage Cloud
The University of California, San Diego's San Diego Supercomputer Center recently launched an academic-based cloud storage system designed specifically for researchers...
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Inside Facebook's Bid to Reinvent Music, News, and Everything
Earlier this year, Daniel Ek, the CEO of the music service Spotify, was in a car with Mark Zuckerberg. Ek was visiting the Facebook founder in California while...
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