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One Billion Euros to nleash the Power of Information
A diverse group of European scientists are planning the FuturIcT knowledge accelerator, an effort to assemble expertise in all areas of science to develop supercomputing...
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Lawmakers Renew Commitment to Science Spending, Despite Budget-Deficit Fears
The U.S. House of Representatives Science Committee has agreed to support a measure that would renew authorization for the America Competes Act, which sets funding...
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Wheelchairs That Listen
MIT researchers are developing a voice-operated robotic wheelchair for people with neurological disorders.
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How Personal Genomics Could Change Health Care
Several months after deciphering his genetic code last year, Stanford bioengineer Stephen Quake approached a cardiologist colleague. Early analysis of his DNA had...
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Today's Youngsters Prefer Computer Games to Holidays
A British survey has revealed that the young generation would rather stay at home and play computer games than go on a holiday. The report by Future of Free Time...
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The Legal Case For Robot War Gets Complicated
The legal debate over America's undeclared drone war in Pakistan is getting sharper: In a congressional hearing yesterday, a prominent law professor suggested that...
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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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High-Tech Employment Grows
U.S. employment rose for three high-tech job categories in 2010's first quarter, according to IEEE-USA, citing data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Fixing Silicon Valley's Gender Gap One Pitch at a Time
Teams of high school girls recently pitched Android apps and business plans to business leaders at Microsoft's campus as part of an eight-week program that introduces...
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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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National Tech Transfer Awards Recognize Sandia's Work with Cray, Stirling Energy
Sandia National Laboratories has won two national Federal Laboratory Consortium awards for its efforts to transfer technology to supercomputer manufacturer Cray...
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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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We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Powerpoint
Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer that was meant to portray...
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Defense-Scale Supercomputer Supports Alternative Energy Research
A new supercomputer that more quickly models the most efficient ways to harness energy from the sun, wind and other renewable resources is now operating at Sandia...
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Sony to End Production of Floppy Disks
The end of an icon approaches as Sony prepares to end production of the 3.5-inch floppy disk, made obsolete by networking technology and the rise of USB storage...
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German It Body
Finding young women to fill tech jobs continues to be a problem for the German information technology (IT) industry, according to a new study from German technology...
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Why the Iphone Could Be Bad News For Computer Science
Robert Harle of the University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory says the closed philosophy of devices such as the iPhone discourages the kind of tinkering that...
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Students' Auction Technology Helps Raise Record Funds for Charity
Software developed by students in the Computer and Information Science Department at Westfield State College in Massachusetts helped the local Kiwanis Club raise...
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