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Will AI Replace Computer Programmers?
Advances in artificial intelligence tools that can code could improve productivity, but portend disruption.
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Connecting Electronic Medical Records
Looking out his office window in Seattle, Thomas Payne can see two hospitals that use the same electronic record system as his own. And yet, says Payne, medical...
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Wikileaks Backlash Could Mean Less Data For Soldiers
Information shared with troops may be restricted.
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Computing at the Speed of Light
Replacing metal wiring with fiber optics could change everything from supercomputers to laptops.
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Hacking the Smart Grid
The hurried deployment of smart-grid technology could leave critical infrastructure and private homes vulnerable to hackers. Security experts at the Black Hat...
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The Hunt For the Wikileaks Whistle-Blower
Attorney General Eric Holder's new probe into Wikileaks's posting of 91,000 war documents will likely find that tracing the path of the documents back through the...
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A Smoother Street View
Microsoft's new toy allows for a more seamless walk down an online avenue.
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Your Groups Tell Hackers Who You Are
A malicious site can find out what social-networking groups you belong to--and then figure out your identity.
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Ads that Match a Web Page's Images
Using the contents of images or videos to target Web ads could improve click-through.
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Wireless Companies Could se Your Friends
Each time you make a cellphone call, your network provider knows whom you're calling, for how long, and what device you're using. Now researchers at one of the...
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How Twitter Could Better Predict Disease Outbreaks
Social media is particularly useful for anyone who wants to track the present—or predict the future.
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The Challenge of Molecular Communication
Research led by Ph.D. student Sachin Kadloor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are investigating how much information can be exchanged via molecular...
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Making Optical Switching More Practical For Telecom
Using all-optical controls could speed the transmission of telecommunications data, but optical switches that can work at high bandwidths need a lot of energy to...
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The Challenge of Molecular Communication
Bacteria communicate with molecules, and now computer scientists want to copy them. Their first task: to derive a mathematical theory of molecular communication...
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How Wi-Fi Drains Your Cell Phone
A study finds problems, but also offers software fixes that could help cell phones last significantly longer between charges.
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Working Toward a Smarter, Faster Cloud
A proposed system would let cloud developers control the way their data travels across different machines.
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Sending Data 160 Characters at a Time
In the absence of a good Internet connection, why not use text messages to transmit data?
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Study Shows Inequalities in 'White-Spaces' Wireless
University of California, Berkeley researchers recently published a detailed analysis of the potential for long-distance wireless Internet connectivity using white...
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How the Apple Ii Taught Programmers to Economize
Imagine trying to program a virtual machine--a software instance that mimics all the characteristics of a physical computer--on a device with 2 kilobytes of RAM...
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China: Our Internet Is Free Enough
China, with the most Internet users of any country in the world, has issued its first government whitepaper declaring an overall Internet strategy--one that advocates...
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