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Commercial Quantum Cryptography System Hacked
Physicists have mounted the first successful attack of its kind on a commercial quantum cryptography system.
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Facebook Grapples With Privacy Issues
A backlash over Facebook Inc.'s privacy practices has triggered disagreement inside the company that could force Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg to scale back efforts...
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James Bond-Style Tech Ready For Emergencies
Instantly deployable James Bond-style information and communication technologies are now available to coordinate disaster response among diverse agencies and NGOs...
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Duke to Shut senet Server, A Piece of Internet History
Duke University this week will shut down its Usenet server, which provides access to a worldwide electronic discussion network of newsgroups started in 1979 by...
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New Platform Creates Shortcut For Field Data Analysis
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed the Knowledge Acquisition Ubiquitous Agent Infrastructure, a framework for gathering and analyzing data...
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Rensselaer Joins Web Science Trust Network of Laboratories
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been selected to join a new international network of prestigious world-class research laboratories to support the growing field...
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At Youtube, Adolescence Begins at 5
Early this year, the most popular YouTube video of all time--a 2007 clip of a British toddler gleefully biting the finger of his older brother--was supplanted by...
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.s. Struggles to Ward Off Evolving Cyber Threat
U.S. Department of Defense official James Miller says authorities have failed to stay ahead of the cyberattacks, which have resulted in the loss of an enormous...
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Evolution of Large-Scale Social Networks Focus of MSU Study
A team from Michigan State University will study how large-scale social networks such as YouTube and Wikipedia change as users come and go over time in order to...
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Legal Experts: LimeWire Likely Doomed
A federal court judge has likely dealt a death blow to LimeWire, one of the most popular and oldest file-sharing systems, according to legal experts.
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Can Social Networks Be Generated Automatically?
When Google launched Buzz, a microblogging social network, several months ago, the company boasted that the network had been generated automatically, by algorithms...
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Cellphones Now Used More For Data Than For Calls
She taps out her grocery lists, records voice memos, listens to music at the gym, tracks her caloric intake and posts frequent updates to her Twitter and Facebook...
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Can Cameras and Software Replace Referees?
Tennis has adopted Hawk-Eye's line-calling technology with (mostly) open arms. Why are other sports resisting the more accurate, high-tech refs?
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New Mathematical Method May Help Tame Big Data
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill mathematicians and colleagues have developed a new technique for examining networks to help identify patterns and see...
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Online Tools Help Professionals Share Their Expertise
Online tools developed in Europe have created completely new approaches in pedagogy – the science of education.
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Interface Expert Knocks Ipad Apps For Inconsistent Usability
The iPad has been hailed as an interface triumph. But one usability expert has published an exhaustive critique of the iPad, taking it to task for the inconsistency...
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Student Researchers Advance Emergency Alert Technology
A group of Northeastern University student researchers have developed a wireless wrist device that monitors a user's vital signs and may serves as an automated...
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Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook
How angry is the world at Facebook for devouring every morsel of personal information we are willing to feed it?
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Internet Approaches Addressing Limit
Experts say that the net's entire existing address space will be exhausted about a year after that date. A newer scheme is being rolled out but many firms and countries...
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