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U.k. Report on Chinese Spying 'unsubstantiated'
A Chinese military expert Sunday (January 31) refuted claims by the U.K.'s national security intelligence agency that China has engaged in commercial espionage,...
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Smart Dust? Not Quite, but We
In computing, the vision always precedes the reality by a decade or more. The pattern has held true from the personal computer to the Internet, as it takes time...
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China's Cyber War on the nited States
In the U.S. Naval Network Warfare Command, the largest threats against U.S. computer networks originate from Chinese hackers. According to a report from Federal...
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Milestone Reached on Road to Graphene-Based Electronic Devices
Researchers in the Electro-Optics Center Materials Division at Penn State have produced 100-mm diameter graphene wafers, a key milestone in the development of graphene...
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Parallel Algorithm Leads to Cryptography Breakthrough
Pico Computing announced that it has achieved the highest-known benchmark speeds for 56-bit DES decryption, with reported throughput of over 280 billion keys per...
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Supercomputer Breakthrough Allows Astronomers to Share niverse Simulations
Supercomputing has helped astrophysicists create massive models of the universe, but such simulations remain out of reach for many in the United States and around...
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Computing Pioneer Herbert Grosch, Dead at 91
Herbert R.J. Grosch, a computing pioneer who served as ACM president from 1976-1978, died on January 18 at the age of 91.
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Nsf Earmarks $30m For Game-Changing Internet Research
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) will award $30 million across two to four projects to redesign the Internet via new security, reliability, and collaborative...
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Nasa to Boost Speed of Deep Space Communications
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) wants to combine three space-based communication networks into a much faster, more efficient data...
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Female Teachers Can Transfer Fear of Math and ndermine Girls' Math Performance
University of Chicago researchers have found that female elementary school teachers can pass on their anxiety and stereotypes about math to female students.
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Major Step Towards Low-Power All-Optical Switching For Optical Communications
A key breakthrough involving optical random access memory has been achieved by Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC) and Ghent University. Researchers...
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How Crowdsourcing Is Helping in Haiti
The revolution in texting, social networking, and crowdsourcing has enabled innovations such as the 4636 texting service, which is aiding the disaster relief efforts...
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No Catastrophes Please, It's Software Modeling
Thales Research and Technology (TRT) researchers have created a development platform that enables applications to tackle the increasing complexity of modern computer...
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Researchers Criticize 3D Secure Credit Card Authentication
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory researchers Steven J. Murdoch and Ross Anderson contend in a paper that the 3D Secure credit card authentication system...
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Engineering Team Explores How Thoughts Can Operate Computers and More
On any given day, John LaRocco can be found in front of a computer in a lab in the College of Engineering at Rowan University, electrodes poking out from the black...
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The Web Way to Learn a Language
The young woman seated next to us at the sushi bar exuded a vaguely exotic air; her looks and style, we thought, made it likely that she was not American born. ...
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Eff Reveals How Your Digital Fingerprint Makes You Easy to Track
Think that turning off cookies and turning on private browsing makes you invisible on the web? Think again. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched...
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It Skills Volatility Stabilizing, Report Finds
Volatility in market values for information technology (IT) skills is stabilizing, despite remaining high over the past few months, Foote Partners reports. Volatility...
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Tim Berners-Lee nveils Government Data Project
Sir Tim Berners-Lee has unveiled a new venture for the U.K. government, a Web site at http://data.gov.uk designed to provide the public with better access to official...
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