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At Ces, Chinese Electronics Giants Compete For American Eyes
You’ve heard the complaints. The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is too unwieldy and too outdated for tech titans such as Apple, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft...
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Looking Forward to a Future Internet
The future of the Internet was in doubt heading into December and the World Conference on International Telecommunications. Neither those who want to control the...
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How Delays Propagate Across the U.s. Airport Network
The Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems has simulated how flight delays spread across the U.S. airport network like wildfires.
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Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Meeting
The recent U.S. National Science Foundation Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Principal Investigator Meeting gave NSF an opportunity to build the community of principal...
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F# Foundation: Taking Microsoft's F# Language to a Higher Ground
The recently formed F# Software Foundation maintains a free open source F# code repository which is available to the public free of charge.
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Chattanooga Tests Ultra-Fast System for Disaster Response
Chattanooga, Tenn., will test a system that will run computerized disaster scenarios using a detailed layout of the city, with the goal of training emergency workers...
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Digital Globes Offer a Dynamic Vision
In the main hall of the hands-on science exhibits at the Cape Town Science Center in South Africa, a lifeless, tattered globe stands under naked fluorescent bulbs...
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Mapping Malware's Genome to Fight Future Attacks
Every year a computer worm emerges to stalk the Internet, each one seemingly bigger and badder than the last (see diagram).
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Student Suspended For Refusing to Wear Rfid Tracker Loses Lawsuit
A Texas high school student who claimed her student identification was the "Mark of the Beast" because it was implanted with a radio-frequency identification chip...
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Vint Cerf: Internet Competition Has 'evaporated' Since Dial-p
Vint Cerf, co-creator of the Internet, said he is troubled by the prospect of companies like AT&T avoiding government regulation after the transition from traditional...
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U.s. Nuclear Lab Removes Chinese Tech Over Security Fears
A leading U.S. nuclear weapons laboratory recently discovered its computer systems contained some Chinese-made network switches and replaced at least two components...
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It's All About the Genes and the Brain Machines
The amount of time and money needed to sequence genomes continued to fall in 2012, perhaps to no one’s surprise.
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Feds Requiring 'black Boxes' in All Motor Vehicles
While many automakers have voluntarily installed the devices already, the National Transportation Safety Agency wants to hear your comments by February 11 on its...
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Iran Designing Software For Controlled Social Media Access
Iran is designing intelligent software that would give its citizens limited access to social networking Web sites, according to a local media report.
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North Korean Students Show Google Chief How They Search Web
Students at North Korea's premier university have showed Google's executive chairman how they look for information online: they Google it.
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Better Than Human: Why Robots Will—and Must—take Our Jobs
It's hard to believe you'd have an economy at all if you gave pink slips to more than half the labor force.
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'hashtag' Is the 2012 Word of the Year
In its 23rd annual words of the year vote, the American Dialect Society voted "hashtag" as the word of the year for 2012. Hashtag refers to the practice used on...
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Students Rush to Web Classes, but Profits May Be Much Later
Several approaches to online education are emerging, and universities across the United States are increasing their online offerings. However, none of these programs...
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Big Data, Java and Other Developer Skills: Top Hiring Priorities
Big data-related jobs ranked fourth among the top information technology skills hiring executives are looking for in 2013, according to a recent Dice.com survey...
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