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.s. Cities Relying on Precog Software to Predict Murder
Who needs the freaky precogs of Minority Report to predict if someone’s likely to commit murder when you have an algorithm that can do it for you?
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Big Blue Is Still the Big Dog of Patents
Computing giant IBM has retained its position as the company granted the most patents in the year. It’s the 20th consecutive year that IBM has done so.
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1st Black Female Computer Science Phd Student at niv. of Michigan Reveals Lack of Role Models
Kyla McMullen became the University of Michigan's first African-American female computer science Ph.D. alumna this past year. She says that her experience was sometimes...
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.N. Plans Internet Governance Amid Outcry to Defund IT
A petition to de-fund the United Nation's telecommunications branch recently emerged, just as the ITU was ready to finalize Internet governance plans at the World...
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City Living: There's an App For That
U.S. citizens increasingly are developing mobile applications that rely on a wealth of publicly available municipal data. For example, Portland, Ore., has developed...
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Robocallers Stand Out in a Troll Through Chinese Cellphone Records
The availability of electronic records of communications, from the use of cellphones to chats in online games, has given social scientists new options for studying...
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Cyberwar's Gray Market
Behind computer screens from France to Fort Worth, Texas, elite hackers hunt for security vulnerabilities worth thousands of dollars on a secretive unregulated...
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California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial
Online education startup Udacity has unveiled a partnership with San Jose State University to offer remedial and college-level algebra and introductory statistics...
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It Job Market Recovering Faster Than After Dot-Com Bubble Burst
More new technology jobs have been created since the end of the past recession than during the same recovery period following the burst of the dot-com bubble and...
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Google's Kurzweil on Teaching Human Language to Computers
Famed inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil joined Google last month to work on "some of the hardest problems in computer science," specifically machine learning and...
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Iranian Military Able to Repel Enemy Jamming, Electronic Attacks
A senior Iranian army commander lauded the achievements of the country's Armed Forces in electronic warfare, stressing that Iran's military units can maintain communications...
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Humans Generate Most of the World’s Data, but Machines Are Catching Up
IDC estimated in 2005 that all of the bytes in the digital universe amounted to 130 billion gigabytes. IDC's most recent estimate for 2012 put the total at 2.8...
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Study: Women Lagging in Internet Adoption in Many Countries
Women and girls are falling behind men in terms of Internet access in many parts of the world, causing them to miss out on the economic and social benefits of being...
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Internet2 Eyes Cloud Boost From Silicon Valley Office
The Internet2 technology consortium recently opened its first Silicon Valley office. "It will serve as a hub for our West Coast campuses and our Asian partners...
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Ieee Approves Wigig, Clearing Way For Faster Wireless Networking
The IEEE Standards Association has approved WiGig, a very fast, short-range networking technology that operates in the 60-GHz band. Also known as 802.11ad, WiGig...
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Rocra Espionage Malware Campaign ncovered After Five Years of Activity
For five years, it hid in the weeds of networks used by Eastern European diplomats, government employees and scientific research organizations, stealing data and...
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Drivers With Hands Full Get a Backup: The Car
Car makers increasingly are adopting technologies for use in autonomous vehicles that take advantage of the array of optical and radar sensors in new cars. The...
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Their Apps Track You. Will Congress Track Them?
There are three things that matter in consumer data collection: location, location, location.
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Nsa Documents on 'perfect Citizen' Program Raise Many More Questions
More than two years after The Wall Street Journal disclosed the Perfect Citizen program, the Electronic Privacy Information Center released NSA documents detailing...
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