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Artificial intelligence is boosting the capabilities of automatic speech recognition.
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Big Brother Is Watching You
Not only that, facial recognition technologies inform him of who you are and what you did.
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Open Source Software No Longer Optional
Open development and sharing of software gained widespread acceptance 15 years ago, and the practice is accelerating.
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Estonia: A Model For E-Government
Over the next decade, the population of Estonia is expected to soar more than 600% as the country becomes the first in the world to open its borders to an influx...
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Computer Security: Who You Gonna Call?
Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) stand ready to battle ever-more-sophisticated cyberthreats.
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Chips Go Upscale
After decades in Flatland, the end of Moore's Law is pushing semiconductors into the third dimension.
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Revamping Storage Performance
Great strides are being made in finding fast alternatives to the slow disks that dominate storage systems, but fast media are not nearly enough.
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Invasion of the Mobile Apps
The market model pioneered by Apple and others is transforming the software world — and has profound implications for software companies and their customers.
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Security in the Cloud
Cloud computing offers many advantages, but also involves security risks. Fortunately, researchers are devising some ingenious solutions.
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