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Cybersecurity Protects Food, Agriculture
Protecting the U.S. food supply from cyberattack.
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.s. Debated Cyberwarfare in Attack Plan on Libya
Just before the American-led strikes against Libya in March, the Obama administration intensely debated whether to open the mission with a new kind of warfare...
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Seeing Through Walls
Researchers at MIT's Lincoln Lab have developed new radar technology that provides real-time video of what’s going on behind solid walls.
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Clamping Down on High-Speed Stock Trades
Regulators in the United States and overseas are cracking down on computerized high-speed trading that crowds today’s stock exchanges, worried that as it spreads...
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Robot Biologist Solves Complex Problem From Scratch
Researchers at Vanderbilt and Cornell universities have demonstrated that a computer can analyze raw experimental data from a biological system and derive the basic...
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Software to Prevent Abuse at the Click of a Mouse
The State Office of Criminal Investigations in Berlin is using desCRY, a new system for detecting child-pornographic images in field tests.
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Researchers Merge Art and Science
Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are turning their attention to something even the most advanced telescopes can’t detect: the art...
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Computational Model of Peace Predicts Social Violence, Harmony
New England Complex Systems Institute researchers have developed a computational model that analyzes census data to identify potential areas of civil violence,...
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Cops on the Trail of Crimes that Haven't Happened
The patrol car comes to a stop in a sleepy neighbourhood of small, earth-coloured homes. A woman saunters past pushing a stroller. It is daytime in the artsy beach...
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The Singularity Isn't Near
Futurists like Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil have argued that the world is rapidly approaching a tipping point, where the accelerating pace of smarter and smarter...
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High-Skill Visa Reform Needs Action By Congress, Obama Says
Congressional action is needed to overhaul high-skill immigration policy, President Obama said during a meeting of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness...
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Bridging the It Skills Gap
More than 550,000 new entrants over the next five years are required to fill information technology (IT) and telecoms professional job openings in Britain, according...
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Pr2 Can Now Fetch You a Sandwich From Subway
Researchers from the University of Tokyo and Technische Universitat Munchen have given a robot common sense.
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What Did Steve Jobs Do For Computer Science?
Beyond a mind-bending array of business, societal, and technological accomplishments, there’s an often-overlooked side to Steve Jobs and Apple. The company’s contributions...
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Dennis Ritchie, C Creator and nix Developer, Has Passed Away
Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C programming language and developer of UNIX, has passed away at the age of 70.
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Will Robots Steal Your Job as a Scientist?
Can robots work as scientists? At first, this seems like a silly question. Computers are pervasive in science, and if you walk into a large university lab today...
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New Computer Programme Promises to Save the Whales
University of Montreal researchers have developed software that helps regulators to evaluate the ecological and economic implications of marine mammal conservation...
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People as 'sensors': Twitter Messages Reveal Nfl's Big Plays and Fans' Excitement
Researchers at Rice University and Motorola Mobility have developed SportSense, software that monitors Twitter posts of National Football League fans to determine...
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Smartphones sed to Engage with Learners
The mCommunity project is a new multi-institution partnership that will help educators deal with long-term and general unemployment using state-of-the-art telecommunications...
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Video Documents Three-Year Trek on Mars by NASA Rover
While NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity was traveling from Victoria crater to Endeavour crater, between September 2008 and August 2011, the rover team...
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