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81% of Tor sers Can Be De-Anonymised By Analysing Router Information, Research Indicates
More than 81% of Tor clients can be ‘de-anonymized’ by exploiting Netflow technology.
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Window Washing Skills Beyond a Robot's Reach
As a pair of window washers clung to a scaffold dangling outside the 68th floor of 1 World Trade Center on Wednesday, the captivating drama left some below wondering...
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Three Touchdowns For Rosetta's Lander
After achieving touchdown on a comet for the first time in history, scientists and engineers are busy analysing this new world and the nature of the landing.
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Technology's Latest Quest: Tracking Mental Health
Several teams are working on new ways of determining what elements of behavior or mannerisms could be tracked to monitor a person's mental health.
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Robot That Moves Like an Inchworm Could Go Places Other Robots Can't
Researchers have developed a soft, worm-like robot that moves similarly to inchworms.
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'Flight Simulator' for Surgeons: Project Joins Computer Science With Medicine
University of Wisconsin-Madison investigators are developing a simulator to help medical students virtually practice surgical procedures.
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Google Boosts Turing Award Computing Prize to $1 Million
There's no Nobel prize for computer science, but after a grant from Google, the top award in the field now just as lucrative.
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Joint Effort Nabs Next Wave of S Supercomputers
Once locked in an arms race with each other for the fastest supercomputers, US national laboratories are now banding together to buy their next-generation machines...
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Rosetta: Concerns For Comet Lander After neven Landing
The lander bounced twice, initially about 1km back out into space, before settling in the shadow of a cliff, 1km from its intended target site.
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Weapons Directed By Robots, Not Humans, Raise Ethical Questions
On a bright fall day last year off the coast of Southern California, an Air Force B-1 bomber launched an experimental missile that may herald the future of warfare...
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Sandia Releases Interface to Help Standardize Supercomputer Power and Energy Systems
The High Performance Computing-Power API specification standardizes measurement of power- and energy-relevant features for high-performance computing systems.
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Functional Languages Rack p Best Scores For Software Quality
University of California, Davis researchers recently conducted an examination of projects hosted on GitHub and the languages used to build them.
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Dvd Tech Breakthrough Could Produce 1,000 Tb Capacity Discs
A new type of DVD technology will enable users to store 212,000 times the amount of data of a standard 4.7 GB disc.
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a Professor Developing Wearable Device to Track Diet
University of Alabama researchers are working on the development of a sensor that can automatically track diet.
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Touchdown! Rosetta's Philae Probe Lands on Comet
ESA's Rosetta mission has soft-landed its Philae probe on a comet, the first time in history that such an extraordinary feat has been achieved.
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Next-Generation Robot Needs Your Help
Carnegie Mellon University professor Manuela Veloso believes robots can be made fully autonomous by designing them to ask for help when necessary.
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Wireless Devices sed By Casual Pilots Vulnerable to Hacking, Computer Scientists Find
Apps and wireless devices used by private pilots during flights may be vulnerable to various hack attacks, according to computer scientists.
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Nebias: The World's Most Advanced Bionic Hand
The NEBIAS project, a European Union effort to develop advanced prosthetic hands, is demonstrating great strides only a year after its creation.
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Obama Asks FCC to Adopt Tough Net Neutrality Rules
President Barack Obama on Monday called on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to regulate Internet service providers as public utilities.
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