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Fighting Impersonation by AI
Finding ways to determine whether a voice message is real or generated by an artificial intelligence.
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10 Most Important Open Source Networking Projects
Networking vendors use open source projects as platforms for enterprise projects, or as the underlying technology for some of the world's largest networks.
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5 Burning Questions With New Ietf Chair and Cisco Fellow Alissa Cooper
New Internet Engineering Task Force chair and Cisco Fellow Alissa Cooper lauds the organization as "a very special place because of the standards work it has done...
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DARPA Wants to Simulate How Social Media Spreads Info Like Wildfire
A new program from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency aims to better understand the spread and evolution of information online.
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Researchers Create 3D Faces From Online Photos to Defeat Face Authentication Systems
Researchers say they have developed a virtual reality-based cyberattack that can reproduce the human face well enough to trick face-authentication systems.
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Internet2 at 20: Alive and Kicking
Nearly two decades since its launch, Internet2 continues to run on U.S. university campuses.
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How the Open Compute Project's Telco Project Could Transform the Iot, Driverless Cars
The Open Compute Project recently announced the Telco Project, which is focused on data center technologies for telecommunications companies.
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10 Cool Network and Computing Research Projects
If you think the latest enterprise and consumer network and computer technologies rolling into your data center and being snuck into your offices by end users are...
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DARPA Takes Aim at Energy Conversion Technology
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is launching a program which focuses on transduction, the conversion of energy from one form to another.
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Google Lets Connected Devices Commune Without Specialized Apps
A new initiative by Google seeks to form an open standard for the Internet of Things, dubbed the Physical Web by the company's Chrome team.
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DARPA Demos Lightweight, 94ghz Silicon System on a Chip
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency says it has demonstrated an all-silicon, microchip-sized system on a chip that runs at 94 GHz.
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MIT Researchers Bring Javascript to Google Glass
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed WearScript, a Javascript environment that runs on Google Glass.
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Iowa State Researchers Discover Possible Route to Terahertz Storage Speeds
Ultra-short laser pulses and special materials can be used to switch magnetism about 1,000 times faster than current storage devices, say researchers.
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Nasa, Air Force Define Cutting-Edge Next-Gen Space Computer
NASA and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate have issued a call for R&D into a next-generation computer system for spacecraft.
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Java Inventor James Gosling Building Smart Marine Robots
Java inventor James Gosling is using Java's security framework to design marine robots that can be sent across the ocean to gather weather data or carry out research...
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Ietf Explores New Working Group on Identity Management in the Cloud
The Internet Engineering Task Force is considering approving the Simple Cloud Identity Management scheme, which manages user identity in cloud-based applications...
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Tiny Linux Computer Punches Above Its Weight
The $25 Raspberry Pi computer could have an impact far beyond the educational sector, with early production runs showing significant demand for the technology....
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World's Most Massive Supercomputer Needed For Colossal Space Telescope
The International Center for Radio Astronomy Research is working with the Canadian Astronomical Data Center to develop systems that will work with the Square Kilometer...
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The Industrial Robot Revolution
A dramatic shift in how robots are made and perceived is leading to their widespread adoption and use.
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New System Secures Cellphones For Web Transactions
Password less authentication is an experimental two-factor authentication method designed to ensure the security of online transactions made via cell phones.
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.s. Intelligence Group Seeks Machine Learning Breakthroughs
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity announced that it is looking for new ideas that may become the basis of cutting-edge machine-learning...12