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Grid Computing For the Masses
Having helped scientists study the building blocks of the universe, peer inside the human body in miniscule detail and monitor climate change, grid computing could...
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Silicon Valley Tech Workers Earning Less Than in 2000
While some of the latest government wage data appears to show that Silicon Valley's high-tech workers are making more now than they did in 2000, a closer look at...
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Police Want Backdoor to Web Users' Private Data
count likely knows that police can peek inside it if they have a paper search warrant. But cybercrime investigators are frustrated by the speed of traditionalone...
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U.S. Cyberwar Strategy: The Pentagon Plans to Attack
The China-U.S. diplomatic spat over cyberattacks on Google has highlighted the growing significance of the Internet as a theater of combat. Deputy Defense Secretary...
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What's Inside the Ipad's Chip?
Despite widespread speculation, nothing beyond what Steve Jobs announced last week is known about the A4 chip at the heart of the Apple iPad. Jobs described the...
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Nonlinear Thinker
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Pablo Parrilo has developed a set of techniques that makes it easier to understand nonlinear systems. Parrilo uses...
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Obama Budget Boosts Science, Innovation
U.S. President Barack Obama has proposed spending $3.7 billion on science, technology, engineering, and math education in his 2011 budget, including increasing...
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Mind-Control Mobile-Phone Games
Brain Maze is a mobile phone game developed by Lancaster University researchers that requires players to use their brain waves to move a marble around a course. ...
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Wireless Optical Transmission Key to Better Indoor Communications
Penn State University researchers have developed a wireless optical communications system that could provide faster, more secure communications with a wider bandwidth...
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High, Not Flat: Nanowires for a New Chip Architecture
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics and the Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf have described the electrical resistance and current...
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Competition Seeks to Attract More Women Into It
Britain's Women in Technology has teamed up with the National IT Learning Center to introduce the Rise of the Cyberella Competition, which will provide funding...
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Best Connected Individuals Are Not the Most Influential Spreaders in Social Networks
Boston University researchers have developed a method for studying and identifying hubs within social networks. The approach emphasizes the location of the individual...
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Making Vagueness Into an Exact Science
Aberdeen University computer scientist Kees van Deemter is creating a system that would be able to understand the meaning of vague phrases.
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Web Exhibit Tells Story of Laser's Invention
Military agencies wanted a death ray, and they were willing to pay for it. That was one of the forces spurring scientists in a race that ended with the invention...
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Firm Develops Technology to Crush Cyber Attacks in Their Tracks
Cyber attacks are becoming the bane of governments and companies alike. A Virginia based engineering research company may have the answer. InZero Systems has developed...
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Trail of Iowa Computer Hack Points to China
Iowa investigators suspect a serious breach of a state government computer database last week originated in China. The hackers gained access to a computer system...
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Toyota Problems 'Caused by Faulty Software'
Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple and a Toyota Prius owner, has suggested that the "unintended acceleration" problems affecting Toyota's cars may be caused...
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DARPA Develops 4-Legged Robot to Haul Equipment Over Rugged Terrain
Looking like a robotic mule, the Legged Squad Support System (LS3) being developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will carry 400 pounds of equipment...
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Crts Going Down the Tubes? Hardly
Many people may assume that conventional television sets and computer monitors — the kind that use CRTs rather than flat panel screens — have virtually disappeared...
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