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Cybersecurity Protects Food, Agriculture
Protecting the U.S. food supply from cyberattack.
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.s. Takes Aim at Cyberwarfare
The U.S. Pentagon's decision last week to open a cybercommand for both offensive and defensive cyberwarfare activities raises a host of questions. U.S. Defense...
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Second Life Data Offers Window Into How Trends Spread
University of Michigan researchers are using information available through the Second Life virtual world to study how "gestures," or pieces of code that users must...
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DARPA Investigates Extreme Supercomputing
Future network-tethered sensor systems will be capable of unleashing an enormous amount of data, so a new breed of supercomputers will be needed to make sense of...
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Sound Imaging: Clever Acoustics Help Blind People See the World
The European Union-funded CASBLiP project has developed a portable system to help visually-impaired users navigate outdoors. The system analyzes video from portable...
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'mixed Reality' Human Helps Medical Students Learn to Do Intimate Exams
The University of Florida is using a life-sized computer avatar on a flat screen and a mannequin with prosthetic body parts to teach medical students how to perform...
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Researchers Receive $1.2 Million Muri Grant
The Army Research Office has awarded Pennsylvania State University (PSU) researchers pursuing work on hard/soft data fusion with a $1.2 million Multidisciplinary...
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Circuit Malfunction Preceded Dc Metro Crash
The replacement of an important piece of collision-prevention equipment five days before last week's fatal train crash on the Washington, D.C., Metro's Red Line...
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Drexel to Deploy Smart Grid System
Drexel University will deploy a smart grid system to provide real-time measurements of the University's power usage and allow excess power to be sold back to the...
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Mobile Tv Coming to Canada?
Simon Fraser University (SFU) doctorate student Cheng-Hsin Hsu, along with SFU graduate students Yi Liu and Cong Ly, and their supervisor Mohamed Hefeeda, has designed...
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Scientists Create First Electronic Quantum Processor
Yale University researchers have led a research effort to develop the first rudimentary solid-state quantum processor, a major step toward the creation of a quantum...
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Organic Traffic Control
Researchers in Germany believe organic computing has the potential to solve the problems of urban traffic systems, which rely on sensors and controllers. Using...
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Business Groups Hail China Web Software Delay
The American and European chambers of commerce in China have welcomed a decision by Beijing to delay an order that new computers sold in the country be equipped...
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The Wireless Future of Energy Transfer
The electronic revolution of the past century has been a tangled affair. Remember when phones were always wired into the wall? When the Internet required one more...
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Sensors For Tracking Home Water se
When a cell phone or credit-card bill arrives, each call or purchase is itemized, making it possible to track trends in calling or spending. Within the next few...
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Icann Hires Former Cybersecurity Chief as New Ceo
Rod Beckstrom, the former director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Cybersecurity Center, has been chosen to replace Paul Twomey as the CEO...
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Human-Like Vision Lets Robots Navigate Naturally
A robotic vision system that mimics key visual functions of the human brain promises to let robots maneuver quickly and safely through cluttered environments, and...
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Computer Failures Are Probed in Jet Crash
Aviation investigators looking for a cause of the crash of Air France Flight 447 believe that a rapid chain of computer and equipment failures may have stripped...
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Radar Will Improve Agents' Tunnel Vision
Of every tunnel ever discovered by U.S. border patrol agents, "all of them have been found by accident or human intelligence," said Ed Turner, a project manager...
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Less Fuss, More Muscle in Quantum Data Transfer
Australian National University (ANU) researchers have discovered a more efficient way to use light to convey information. The approach to generating quantum entanglement...
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