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How Pacific Island Missile Tests Helped Launch the Internet
There are a thousand stories about the origin of the internet, each with their own starting point and their own heroes. Charles Herzfeld's tale began in 1961 on...
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Analysis Shows Traces of Wiper Malware But No Links to Flame
One of the things about the investigation into the Flame malware that's remained unclear for several months now is what ever became of the so-called Wiper virus...
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Robots to Rescue Coral Reefs
Heriot-Watt University researchers are developing a swarm of intelligent robots to help save coral reefs.
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Gps Technology Finding Its Way Into Court
The rapid spread of cellphones with GPS technology has allowed police to track suspects with unprecedented precision—even as they commit crimes. But the legal fight...
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A Hardware Renaissance in Silicon Valley
In recent years, Silicon Valley seems to have forgotten about silicon. It’s been about dot-coms, Web advertising, social networking, and apps for smartphones.
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Massive Cyberattack: Act 1 of Israeli Strike on Iran?
Talk in Israel of a military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities has reached a fever pitch.
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Apple-Samsung Jury Foreman Recalls 'aha! Moment'
According to Velvin Hogan, the 67-year-old foreman of the jury in the U.S. trial between the Apple and Samsung, one of the turning points in group's journey to came...
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Inside Intellectual Ventures, the Most Hated Company in Tech
To many in the high-tech business, a troll plots his schemes in a white office building on a hill in this leafy suburb of Seattle.
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At the Intersection of Big Data and Healthcare: What 7.2 Million Medical Records Can Tell Us
Big data analytics have enabled researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's SENSEable City Lab and colleagues at GE Healthymagination to create a...
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Making Crowdsourcing Easier
MIT researchers have developed Qurk, a database system that automatically crowdsources tasks that are difficult or impossible to perform computationally.
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Watson Turns Medic: Supercomputer to Diagnose Disease
IBM's supercomputer Watson is learning to use its language skills to help doctors diagnose patients.
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Home Wi-Fi Routers Could Operate as Emergency Network, Say Scientists
Home Wi-Fi routers could be used as a backup mesh network by fire, police, and ambulance services during emergencies in cities and towns with overwhelmed cell and...
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Apple's Samsung Win Slams Asian Phone Makers
Samsung wasn't the only Asian smartphone maker to suffer through a Black Monday.
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Hubble's Hidden Treasures Revealed
Hubble has made over a million observations since launch, but only a small proportion are attractive images—and an even smaller number are ever actually seen by...
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In Google’s Inner Circle, a Falling Number of Women
In an effort to address the declining number of female employees within the company, Google researchers developed algorithms to determine exactly when the company...
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'super Pac App' Knows When Political Ads Stretch the Truth
What if every political ad came with a "truthiness" disclaimer?
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Siemens 'flaw' Claim Sparks U.s. Power Plant Security Probe
A security expert said that he had found a backdoor in hardware from a Siemens subsidiary, RuggedCom.
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In Japan, Mobile Startups Take Gaming To Next Level
On the subway, in doctor's waiting rooms and during college lectures, millions of Japanese can be found glued to their smartphones. But they're not texting or making...
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Digitizing the Past to Protect and Preserve History
Archeologists now take thousands of digital photos, make notes in a database on a laptop or a tablet, and record careful, geographically referenced information...
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