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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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Internet Backbone Breaks the 100-Gigabit Barrier
A new 900-kilometer fiber-optic link between Paris and Frankfurt is the first step to creating a high-speed Internet backbone with enough capacity to satisfy bandwidth...
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Acacia: The Company Tech Loves to Hate
For a company that makes no products, Acacia Research spends a lot of time fighting over patents in court. Acacia has filed at least 337 patent-related lawsuits...
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Videogame Glitches Open the World of Computing to Students
Why is the National Science Foundation helping Morehouse College pay students to test videogames? The school's Glitch Game Testers program is one of many NSF efforts...
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Computer Model Demonstrates That White Roofs May Successfully Cool Cities
Painting the roofs of buildings white has the potential to significantly cool cities and mitigate some impacts of global warming, a new study indicates. The research...
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Google Attack Highlights 'zero-Day' Black Market
The recent hacking attack that prompted Google's threat to leave China is underscoring the heightened dangers of previously undisclosed computer security flaws...
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Innovative Technique Can Spot Errors in Key Technological Systems
An innovative computational technique developed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado at Boulder draws on statistics,...
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Hacking For Fun and Profit in China's Underworld
With a few quick keystrokes, a computer hacker who goes by the code name Majia calls up a screen displaying his latest victims. He operates secretly and illegally...
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The Uncertain Future For Social Robots
Being hacked by a robot requires much less hardware than I expected. There’s no need for virtual-reality goggles or 3D holograms. There are no skullcaps studded...
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Energy-Harvesting Rubber Sheets Could Power Pacemakers, Mobile Phones
Princeton University researchers have developed power-generating rubber films that can harness natural body movements such as breathing and walking to power electronic...
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Survey Reveals Ways to Enhance Teens' Interest in STEM
A recent Lemelson-MIT Invention Index survey found that teens are enthusiastic about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), with 77 percent interested...
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Insectlike 'microids' Might Walk, Run, Work, in Colonies
Purdue University researchers have developed microids, miniature, insect-like robots that feature tiny legs and mandibles built using solid-state muscles. Computer...
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Computer Scientists Develop Neuro-Computer That Actively Learns
Researchers from the Institute for Theoretical Science at the Graz University of Technology are creating a new generation of neuro-computers based on learning mechanisms...
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Signing Contracts on the Telephone
The Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) in Germany has developed VoIPS, software that prevents the tampering and manipulation of telephone...
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Educators Seek New Ways to Steer Kids Toward Technical Fields
School systems across the United States are pushing students to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by providing joint programs with...
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Robots Display Predatory-Prey Co-Evolution, Evolve Better Homing Techniques
Researchers at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in the Ecole Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne are applying evolutionary principles to robot development.
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