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Cybersecurity Protects Food, Agriculture
Protecting the U.S. food supply from cyberattack.
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Privacy at Risk: Who's Watching You?
The notion of Big Brother has been around for decades, but technology has long lagged behind the Orwellian imagination. Not any more; in the era of smartphones...
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News Mining Might Have Predicted Arab Spring
You could have foreseen the Arab Spring if only you'd been paying enough attention to the news. That's the claim of a new study that shows how data mining of...
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A Future For Drones: Automated Killing
One afternoon last fall at Fort Benning, GA, two model-size planes took off, climbed to 800 and 1,000 feet, and began criss-crossing the military base in search...
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Caring, Empathetic Robots the Goal of Ou Professor's Research
University of Oklahoma professor Dean Hougen is studying whether robots can learn to care for one another, and possibly humans.
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Kinect Assists At-Risk Older Adults
Kinect and other computer technology, like Doppler radar, are being used to detect the early onset of illness and the risk of falling in older adults.
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The America Invents Act and the Individual Inventor
Much has been said about how the newly passed patent reform legislation, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, benefits large corporations. While that argument...
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'internet of Things' Is Set to Come
Oxfam charity shops will use technology developed by a U.K. consortium to create an Internet of things this fall.
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Hacking Made Easier, Thanks To New Tools
Time was when it took a fair amount of expertise to launch the kinds of illegal computer attacks that have become the hallmarks of "hacktivist" groups like Anonymous...
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Walked Into a Lamppost? Hurt While Crocheting? Help Is on the Way
Today, hospitals and doctors use a system of about 18,000 codes to describe medical services in bills they send to insurers. Apparently, that doesn't allow for...
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Nasa Mars Research Helps Find Buried Water on Earth
A NASA-led team has used radar sounding technology developed to explore the subsurface of Mars to create high-resolution maps of freshwater aquifers buried deep...
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Nasa's Dawn Collects a Bounty of Beauty from Vesta
A new video from NASA's Dawn spacecraft takes us on a flyover journey above the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta.
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In-Car Algorithm Could Rapidly Dissolve Traffic Jams
University of Seoul researchers Hyun Keun Lee and Beom Jun Kim have developed an algorithm that could automate and improve the process for dissolving traffic jams...
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Nsf Seeking Proposals at the Interface of Computing, Economics
Two U.S. National Science Foundation entities have issued a joint solicitation for interdisciplinary research and education projects that develop new knowledge...
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Newly Published Cyber Security Report Identifies Key Research Priorities
The U.K. National Center for Secure Information Technologies recently released a report identifying key research priorities for protecting the future Internet.
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Air Traffic System Vulnerable to Cyber Attack
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) technology uses unencrypted global positioning system signals to broadcast a plane's position to networks. The...
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Chinese Students Are Storming .s. Grad Schools: They Have the Money and the Brains
If you build it, they will come. No, I'm not talking about a baseball field amidst stalks of corn but the educational institutions dotting the U.S. landscape...
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How Many Pages Are on the Internet?
It seems like an answerable question, right? But no one really knows how many Websites or individual Web pages make up this seemingly infinite digital universe...
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Safeped Helps Cities Fix Dangerous Intersections
TAU researchers have developed SAFEPED, a computer simulation that integrates robotics and statistics on driver and pedestrian behavior to determine the environmental...
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Court Case Asks if 'Big Brother' Is Spelled GPS
The precedent is novel. More precisely, the precedent is a novel. In a series of rulings on the use of satellites and cellphones to track criminal suspects, judges...
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