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The End of Credit Cards Is Coming
Credit cards may soon be as outdated as vinyl records. (Remember them?) And this is the year that the slow, steady march to oblivion begins.
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Social Media and Law Enforcement: Who Gets What Data and When?
This month, we were reminded how important it is that social media companies do what they can to protect the sensitive data they hold from the prying eyes ofreported...
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Survey Reveals Potential Innovation Gap in the U.s.
Young women in the U.S. represent an untapped group of potential inventors, according to the 2011 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index. The latest index shows that women...
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Where High Speed Internet Meets Smart Grid
Advanced internet technologies, energy management and the smart grid are coming together in an unlikely location: a mid-sized city in the South.
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'outrageous Ideas' at Cidr: Seeking to Stimulate Innovative Research Directions
The Computing Community Consortium is sponsoring "wacky idea" sessions aimed at identifying major new research opportunities. The program hopes to move beyond...
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Obama Honors Outstanding Science, Math, Engineering Mentors
President Obama has named 11 individuals and 4 organizations as 2011 recipients of the prestigious Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics,...
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Nasa Inventions Headed to Your Home
With only two shuttle flights left and the future of manned spaceflight in question, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is having a bit of an identity...
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Administration Says It Will Give Industry and Academia Heads Up on Cyberattacks
Universities and businesses will be supplied with government intelligence about malicious Internet activities by the Obama administration so that they can defend...
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Iran Seeks to Boost Corps of Web Watchers
Iran's top police chief envisions a new beat for his forces: patrolling cyberspace.
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Bending and Stretching Classroom Lessons to Make Math Inspire
At the aptly named Tiny Thai restaurant here, a small table, about two and a half feet square, was jammed with a teapot, two plates of curry, a bowl of soup,...
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Battle For Tech Geeks: Street vs. Silicon Valley
Wall Street firms are aggressively competing with Silicon Valley for computer programmers and software engineers by offering more laid-back office environments,...
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Ipad Animation Helps Assess Mobility in Elderly
Two professors at Wake Forest University have developed the Mobility Assessment Tool which uses an iPad and video animation to assess the physical mobility of older...
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In New Military, Data Overload Can Be Deadly
When military investigators looked into an attack by American helicopters last February that left 23 Afghan civilians dead, they found that the operator of a ...
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Israel Tests on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay
The Dimona complex in the Negev desert is famous as the heavily guarded heart of Israel’s never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, where neat rows of factories...
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Wolfram Education Apps Raise Teaching Dilemma
Wolfram Research, a software company with deep mathematical and scientific expertise, is expanding to the broad education market with a range of mobile apps.
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Seeking the World's Best Postdocs
Society in Science, the unique worldwide fellowship for outstanding postdoctoral researchers, is using video, print, and online advertising to spread the word about...
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Eight Jfk News Conferences Now Available Online in Digital Format
Using audio tapes preserved by the University of North Dakota, eight John F. Kennedy news conferences from the early '60s have been digitized and placed online....
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International Cybersecurity Treaty Might Not Be Achievable, Report Says
An international pact to establish cybersecurity regulations may be unworkable, according to an EastWest Institute report. "Many states are not ready for [a global...
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