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Science Education Should Begin at Age Three
Your child comes home from pre-K and tells you to shut off the lights to save electricity. Don't feel scolded; your child may be a budding scientist. To support...
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Turning Patents Into
Nathan Myhrvold wants to shake up the marketplace for ideas. His mission and the activities of the company he heads, Intellectual Ventures, a secretive $5 billion...
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Los Alamos, Sandia Plan Cyber Warfare Training
Cyber-security first responders will be put to the test in an upcoming training-and-competition event hosted by Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories. Federal...
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Typos May Earn Google $500m a Year
Google may be earning $500 million a year via companies and individuals who register deceptive Web site addresses. The claim centers on a controversial scheme known...
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Digging Deep Into Diamonds
Harvard University researchers have created diamond-based nanowire devices that offer a bright, stable source of single photons at room temperature, which is an...
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Intel Experimental Processor Adapts to Environmental Challenges on the Fly
Intel has created a microprocessor that is capable of delivering its specified throughput without requiring any reserve cycles to account for dips in power, changes...
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New Technology Offers Secure Electronic Payment via Mobile Phones
University of Oxford researchers have developed a protocol for facilitating secure peer-to-peer and person-to-person payments using mobile phones.
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Surgeons Perform Robot-Assisted Cystectomy
UT Southwestern Medical Center surgeons completed the North Texas region's first robot-assisted bladder removal using the DaVinci system, a four-armed robot controlled...
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More Than 75,000 Systems Hacked in Cyber Attacks, Security Firm Says
More than 75,000 computer systems at nearly 2,500 companies in the United States and around the world have been hacked in what appears to be one of the largest...
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The Painful Truth About Age Discrimination in Tech
There are bold programmers but no old programmers. That fear-tinged saying echoes even more today among software developers, who fear the recession provides a handy...
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War Game Reveals .s. Lacks Cyber-Crisis Skills
The Bipartisan Policy Center recently staged the Cyber ShockWave, a simulation to demonstrate the plausibility of a cyberattack that could be as crippling as the...
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Graduation Gaps For Science Majors
A recent University of California, Los Angeles survey found that more students are interested in majoring in science and technology fields, but those students are...
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Hold Vendors Liable For Buggy Software, Security Experts Say
Security experts from more than 30 organizations recently called on enterprises to put more pressure on security vendors to ensure secure code development.
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New Fiber Nanogenerators Could Lead to Electric Clothing
University of California, Berkeley researchers have created energy-scavenging nanofibers that can be woven into clothing and textiles. The nano-sized generators...
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A Conference Keen on Finding Open Communication
Alcatel-Lucent recently launched an initiative to connect network operators with software developers to develop mobile applications that work with multiple networks...
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.s., Eu, Russia Set Aside $13.6m For Exascale Software Work
The United States, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, and the United Kingdom have agreed to fund projects aimed at developing software for the next generation...
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Humanoid Robots to Gain Advanced Social Skills
European robotics researchers are developing humanoid robots that can interact with groups of people in a realistic, anthropomorphic way. The HUMAVIPS project...
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DARPA Looks to Build Real-Life C3p0
Right now, troops trying to listen in on enemy chatter rely on a convoluted process. They tune into insurgency radio frequencies, then hand the radio over to local...
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A Faster Wireless Web
Transfers of large amounts of data across the Internet to wireless devices suffer from a key problem: The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) used to send and receive...
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