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With Intel Inside Apple, Macs May be Faster, Smaller
Apple plans to introduce Macintosh computers running on Intel chips by next June, creating an opportunity for the machines to become more powerful, faster, and smaller, since Intel chips generate less heat. The success of this venture hinges on Apple convincing its thousands of software ...
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Technology, Modernity May Change Future Elections
A June 7 report from a task force comprised of officials and former officials from 15 U.S. states organized by the Election Center in Houston, TX, calls for a restructuring of elections to support the wide deployment of "universal vote centers." Such facilities, which were set up ...
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Computer Science Majors Dwindling at U.S. Colleges
Interest in computer science among college students is flagging, despite indications that well-paying job opportunities for computer-science majors abound. The Computing Research Association estimates the number of newly declared U.S. computer science majors experienced a 39% ...
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Redefining the Power of the Gamer
More than 100 game makers and academic computer experts attended the first Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment conference last week to check out new games, many of which are character-driven, free-form, and controlled by AI methods. One example was "Facade," a ...
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Pacman Comes to Life Virtually
Researchers at the National University of Singapore's Mixed Reality Lab have developed an augmented reality (AR) version of the Pacman arcade game in which human beings stand in for Pacman and his Ghost opponents using a combination of virtual reality, global positioning system (GPS) technology, ...
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Big Tech Outfits Unite to Try to Hook Phish
A consortium of major tech corporations has organized to create an effective email authentication standard by combining Cisco's Internet Identified Mail technique with Yahoo!'s DomainKeys strategy; the hybrid method, DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), promises to deliver backward ...
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Two Indian Americans Bag Microsoft Awards
Microsoft Research recently announced Harvard University computer science professor Radhika Nagpal and Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing professor Subhash Khot--both Indian Americans--to be among the first group of recipients of this year's New Faculty Fellowship Awards. ...
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Security Breaches Challenge Academia's 'Open Society'
Carlson Companies data privacy manager Jay Cline reports that U.S. universities are advising students, alumni, and employees to keep an eye on their personal accounts because of security breaches, which are only now coming to light because of the California Security Breach Notification Act, ...
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UCSD Computer Scientists Develop Ubiquitous Video Application for 3D Environments
Researchers from the University of California at San Diego have developed a new form of video monitoring that recreates 3D environments using still images and live-feed video streams. The technology allows remote observers to explore the virtual environment instead of watching separate feeds on a bank of ...
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Blue Brain: Illuminating the Mind
The latest installation of IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne's (EPFL) Brain Mind Institute will be used to model the neocortex of the human brain, an effort that institute founder Henry Markram expects to take several years. The EPFL machine, ...
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DVD Standard Battle Rages On
NEC and Sony continue to wage war over which of their next-generation DVD technologies--NEC's high-definition DVD (HD-DVD) or Sony's Blu-ray--will become the industry standard, although both products have advantages and shortcomings. HD-DVD and Blu-ray both rely on blue-laser technology, which ...
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Q&A: Ex-eBay Security Chief Sees a Safer Internet in the Future
Former eBay security chief and onetime chair of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board Howard Schmidt is generally optimistic that the Internet's security will improve, and attributes this to a shrinking gap between the identification of security issues and industry's response ...
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Play It Again, Vladimir
Zenph Studios President Dr. John Q. Walker is developing technology in which a computer deconstructs and digitizes a musical recording and then plays it back on a Yamaha Disklavier Pro. Walker says the technique can be used to produce crisp renditions of scores by long-deceased artists that ...
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A Battle for the Soul of the Internet
The United Nations and the International Communications Union (ITU) are both seeking to take control of the Internet from ICANN, a battle that's taking place with little fanfare but affects the very foundation of the World Wide Web, writes Tucows CEO Elliot Noss. Noss says both the UN ...
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The Biotech Men
Smarter and more distributed computing is playing an increasingly vital role in Australia's biotechnology industry. The Bionic Ear Institute in East Melbourne uses distributed computing and other state-of-the-art measures to aid research for developing more effective technologies for the ...
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NIST Focuses on Measurements for New IT Technologies
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) plans to identify and define information science measurements that are critical to U.S. competitiveness, according to officials. Equipped with accurate measurements, engineers will be able to predict the behavior of systems ...
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Low Cost Wireless Technologies Enable New Sensor Networks
Wireless technologies allow new sensor network deployments that will dramatically increase knowledge and allow meteorologists to more accurately predict the weather or doctors to more effectively treat physical ailments. Sensors are used to gather a wide variety of information, such as ...
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Down to the Wire
Japan and other Asian countries have overtaken the U.S. in terms of high-speed broadband and mobile-phone technology deployment, dislodging U.S. leadership in Internet innovation and positioning Asia as the primary beneficiary of higher productivity, economic growth, quality-of-life ...
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