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Eu Security Agency Backs Cloud Computing Research
A report from European Union security agency Enisa says that cloud computing, wireless networks, and supply chain integrity should be the focus of information technology...
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'smart Dust' Aims to Monitor Everything
In the 1990s, a researcher named Kris Pister dreamed up a wild future in which people would sprinkle the Earth with countless tiny sensors, no larger than grains...
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The Data-Driven Life
Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we...
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Privacy Concerns Limit Online Ads, Study Says
Privacy advocates have had an impact on Madison Avenue after all, according to a new study.
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Why Twitter Is the Future of News
It's basically impossible for a journalist who relies on Twitter to find stories, stalk editors, rack up "whuffie" and beef with rap stars to be objective about...
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Shoppers Who Can
It’s called behavioral tracking: Cameras that can follow you from the minute you enter a store to the moment you hit the checkout counter, recording every T-shirt...
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New Web Research Network Gets Off the Ground
The Web Science Trust has launched the Web Science Trust Network of Laboratories (WSTNet Labs), an international network to support Web science research and education...
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Monash 'tardis' Transports Research to the World
Monash University software engineer Steve Androulakis and biochemist Ashley Buckle have developed a tool designed to securely collect, store, and share research...
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.s. Needs New National Strategy in Era of Cyberaggression, Paper Concludes
The United States must take a more offensive stance to protect itself from cyberaggression, according to a new paper by University of Cincinnati researchers Richard...
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Commerce Department Scrutinizes Internet Privacy
The U.S. Commerce Department and various government agencies are creating an Internet Policy Task Force to examine policy frameworks and ways in which the "challenges...
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Jobs: Why Apple Banned Flash from the Iphone
In a rare open letter published Thursday, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has detailed the technological reasons why his company refuses to let Adobe Systems':...
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Cash, Check or Charge? How About Cellphone?
You win a bet, but the loser does not have enough cash on him to settle it. If he has a credit card, and most people usually do, there is finally a solution. AeBay...
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When Will We Be Able to Build Brains Like Ours?
When physicists puzzle out the workings of some new part of nature, that knowledge can be used to build devices that do amazing things--airplanes that fly, radios...
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Dynamic Nimbus Cloud Deployment Wins Grid5000 Challenge Award
The Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago's Nimbus toolkit, a set of software tools for cloud computing, implemented a distributed virtual cluster...
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Modeling Human Mobility
Increasingly, cell phones are equipped with GPS locational receivers and their bread crumb trails are opening up entirely new ways to study and predict the dynamics...
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India It Spending to Rise 14 Percent in 2010, Gartner Says
Information technology spending in India will grow by 14 percent in 2010 to $67 billion on higher investments by retail and utility firms and government departments...
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Pentagon: Boost Training With Computer-Troop Mind Meld
The Pentagon is looking to better train its troops--by scanning their minds as they play video games.
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Web-Ifying the Real World
New technologies and tools developed by European researchers will apply the power of online knowledge discovery to offline, real-world situations. These researchers...
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Web Security Attack 'makes Silicon Chips More Reliable'
An attack on a widely used web security system could soon help make silicon chips more powerful and reliable.
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