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Cybersecurity Protects Food, Agriculture
Protecting the U.S. food supply from cyberattack.
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Physicists Restart Souped-p Hadron Collider
After a two-year shutdown, the atom-smashing machine known as the Large Hadron Collider has embarked on a renewed quest to probe some of the biggest puzzles about...
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Defensive Stats Shift Back Toward Irrelevance
Baseball's statisticians have long been looking for a way—any way—to figure out what a player is worth on defense. It was nothing less than the holy grail of baseball...
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Moore's Law Is Showing Its Age
No company sounds more religious about Moore’s Law than Intel Corp., whose co-founder made a famous observation about the miniaturization of chip circuitry 50 years...
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Automakers Tackle the Massive Security Challenges of Connected Vehicles
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is accelerating its efforts to mandate vehicle-to-vehicle communications, a step that could help lower the number...
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When Does a Hack Become an Act of War?
A tremendous number of personnel records—including some quite personal records—have likely been stolen by computer hackers.
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Vietnam's Mobile Revolution Catapults Millions Into the Digital Age
To get an idea of how the mobile Web is catapulting millions of people into the digital age by skipping landline connections, have a look at Vietnam.
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U.s. Surveillance Backlash Could Cost Tech Companies More Than $35 Billion By 2016
The U.S. government's widespread data surveillance practices are likely to cost U.S. cloud computing and other technology companies more money than originally expected...
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Meet the New Generation of Robots For Manufacturing
A new generation of robots is on the way—smarter, more mobile, more collaborative and more adaptable.
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Want Your Writing to Look Like Einstein's? Computers Mimic Handwriting of the Famous
Harald Geisler wants to make you as brilliant as Albert Einstein. Or at least let you write like him. Or at least write in his handwriting.
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Google's Vint Cerf Warns Against Fragmentation of Internet
Internet pioneer Vinton G. Cerf warned Thursday that political and technological forces threaten universal access and integrity, which he described as the foundation...
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Hadoop Corporate Adoption Remains Low: Gartner
For all the talk of Hadoop's potential to help companies leverage Big Data, corporate adoption remains low, a survey released today from Gartner Inc. found.
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Robots, Hungry for Power, Are Too Weak to Take Over the World
Today's robots may just be too hungry and unfit to take over the world any time soon.
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Does Artificial Intelligence Pose a Threat?
After decades as a sci-fi staple, artificial intelligence has leapt into the mainstream.
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At the Heart of Facebook's Artificial Intelligence, Human Emotions
Facebook Inc. doesn't yet have an intelligent assistant, like the iPhone's Siri.
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Ancient Dna Tells a New Human Story
Imagine what it must have been like to look through the first telescopes or the first microscopes, or to see the bottom of the sea as clearly as if the water were...
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Robots May Look Like Job-Killers, But It's Hard to See in the Numbers
Robots are goosing the productivity of the world's factories, but does that mean fewer jobs for humans?
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Brace Yourself: Microsoft Wants to Guess How Old You Are
Like a distant relative who makes you feel bad at the annual holiday get together, Microsoft has created a website that analyzes a photo of a person's face and...
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In Nato Cyber Wargame, Berlya Fends Off Arch-Enemy Crimsonia
Somewhere near Iceland, a new NATO member, Berlya is under cyber-attack, most likely launched from its arch-rival Crimsonia, although the Berlyans can’t be completely...
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Should Law Enforcement Have the Ability to Access Encrypted Communications?
People's distress over the privacy of their communications has never been more acute. Whether the fear is over U.S. surveillance or breaches by hackers of unknown...
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