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The Life and Death of Online Communities
A collaborative study by researchers of the University of Haifa and the New Jersey Institute of Technology reveals what factors can predict the survival or demise...
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Cyberwar Declared as China Hunts for the West's Intelligence Secrets
Urgent warnings have been circulated throughout NATO and the European Union for secret intelligence material to be protected from a recent surge in cyberwar attacks...
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Berners-Lee to Share Reins at World Wide Web Consortium
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), has a new co-captain. It's Jeffrey Jaffe, a technology...
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Security Pros Question Deployment of Smart Meters
The country’s swift deployment of smart-grid technology has security professionals concerned that utilities and smart-meter vendors are repeating the mistakes made...
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Body Acoustics Can Turn Your Arm Into a Touchscreen
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft have developed Skinput, a skin-based interface that turns the human body into a touchscreen.
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Egi.eu to Coordinate European Scientific Computing Grids
A new organization named the European Grid Initiative (EGI.eu) will coordinate a European-wide grid computing infrastructure that will enable scientists to share...
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Researchers Develop 3D Graphics Capability For Firefox
Researchers have incorporated faster software for generating three-dimensional (3D) images into Firefox and plan to release the modified version of the browser...
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Faster Optical Switching Through Chemistry
New molecules produced at Georgia Tech could enable engineers to build all-optical data routers, ultimately leading to transmission speeds as high as two terabits...
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White House Cyber Czar: 'there Is No Cyberwar'
Howard Schmidt, the new cybersecurity czar for the Obama Administration, has a short answer for the drumbeat of rhetoric claiming the United States is caught up...
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Researchers to Develop Tiny Metamaterial Antennas
Northeastern University engineering professor Hossein Mosallaei is leading an effort to use metamaterials to make smaller antennas that allow quicker and more efficient...
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China in Consultations With Google to Resolve Dispute
China is in consultations with technology giant Google to resolve its dispute with the company, which has threatened to abandon the Chinese market over hacking...
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Internet's Future on Display at Singularity U.
The Internet of the future is an intelligent network capable of proactively acting on our needs, following us wherever we go, helping provide us with focused health...
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Call Forwarding: New Procedure Could Speed Cell Phone Testing
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has shown how the wireless industry could lop hours off the process of testing the capabilities of new...
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Napolitano Issues Dhs National Cybersecurity Challenge to Security Community
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano delivered a keynote address which focused on cybersecurity at the RSA Conference in San Francisco...
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Nsf Career Award Recognizes Wsu Vancouver Professor
WenZhan Song, assistant professor in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at WSU Vancouver, has received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER...
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Researchers Find Weakness in Common Digital Security System
The most common digital security technique used to protect both media copyright and Internet communications has a major weakness, University of Michigan computer...
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U.s. Plan to Make Hacking Harder Revealed
The Obama administration has declassified part of its plan to improve the security of cyberspace in an attempt to cultivate greater collaboration between government...
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Attack Unmasks User Behind the Browser
Vienna University of Technology researchers have developed the "deanonymization" attack as a way to reveal the identity of Internet users based on their interactions...
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Scientists Strive to Map the Shape-Shifting Net
In a dimly lit chamber festooned with wires and hidden in one of California’s largest data centers, Tim Pozar is changing the shape of the Internet. He is using...
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