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Federal Researchers Want to ­ntangle Internet of Things
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Federal Researchers Want to ­ntangle Internet of Things

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has released its Draft Framework for Cyber-Physical Systems. 

Tech Experts Predict What 2025 Will Look Like
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Tech Experts Predict What 2025 Will Look Like

A World Economic Forum report contains predictions about what impacts technology will have on the world by 2025. 

Neuroscience Computing Boot Camp Aims to Ignite Interest For Brain Research
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Neuroscience Computing Boot Camp Aims to Ignite Interest For Brain Research

IBM is trying to get the federal government more interested in neuroscience-inspired computing. 

Lawmakers Want a Few Good Hackers to Help Bring Congress Into the 21st Century
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Lawmakers Want a Few Good Hackers to Help Bring Congress Into the 21st Century

The Hack4Congress D.C. brought together technology enthusiasts and non-technology hobbyists to work on projects intended to make the U.S. Congress more efficient...

The Smartest Hackers in the Room (hint: They're Not the Humans)
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The Smartest Hackers in the Room (hint: They're Not the Humans)

Teams from around the world will engage in a dress rehearsal next month for the U.S. Pentagon's Cyber Grand Challenge, a competition to develop automated hacker...

Ftc Pits Humans Against Robocalls in New Contest
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Ftc Pits Humans Against Robocalls in New Contest

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is launching two contests asking the public to develop solutions for blocking, forwarding, and analyzing automated calls. 

Megan Smith Wants to 'debug' Tech's Diversity Problem
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Megan Smith Wants to 'debug' Tech's Diversity Problem

The lack of representation of women and minorities in the U.S. technology sector is a problem Obama administration chief technology officer Megan Smith wants to...

Spy Research Agency Is Building Psychic Machines to Predict Hacks
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Spy Research Agency Is Building Psychic Machines to Predict Hacks

The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is working on a new contest aimed at creating a system to predict cyberthreats a network may face ahead...

The Search Engine of the Future Will Be All-Seeing, All-Knowing 'watcher in the Sky'
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The Search Engine of the Future Will Be All-Seeing, All-Knowing 'watcher in the Sky'

Stefan Weitz, until recently senior director of search at Bing, observes the Internet has become much more massive since Google was conceived in the 1990s. 

­.s. Official: Chinese Want Nsa Cyber Schools
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­.s. Official: Chinese Want Nsa Cyber Schools

Corporate leaders in China believe cyber-relations with the U.S. could improve if Chinese universities taught U.S. National Security Agency-approved curricula. 

Boosting Hispanic Share of Tech Workforce Could Be Key to Closing STEM Gap
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Boosting Hispanic Share of Tech Workforce Could Be Key to Closing STEM Gap

Greater Hispanic participation could play a crucial role in reaching the Obama administration's goals for increased student exposure to opportunities in STEM fields...

White House Introduces New Class of Innovation Fellows
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White House Introduces New Class of Innovation Fellows

The White House has revealed the assignments and backgrounds of its third class of Presidential Innovation Fellows. 

Crowdsourcing Competitions Encourage Malicious Behavior, Study Finds
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Crowdsourcing Competitions Encourage Malicious Behavior, Study Finds

A new study has found that crowdsourcing competitions produce some of the worst competitive tendencies in people.

Women Fleeing Science, Tech Fields
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Women Fleeing Science, Tech Fields

While the talent pipeline of female workers in science, engineering, and technology is growing, many women are leaving these in-demand fields. 

Teens Are Losing Interest in Science, Survey Finds
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Teens Are Losing Interest in Science, Survey Finds

A new survey found the number of teenagers interested in careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics dropped 15 percent this year. 

Military Education Falls Short on Cybersecurity Training
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Military Education Falls Short on Cybersecurity Training

Most of the six U.S. military graduate programs have not fully integrated cybersecurity education into their curricula or aligned their programs with the strategic...

Sandia Draws From Nuclear Science in Inaugurating New Cyber Lab
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Sandia Draws From Nuclear Science in Inaugurating New Cyber Lab

Sandia National Laboratories has launched the Cybersecurity Engineering Research Laboratory, testing hardware vulnerabilities and modeling cyberweapons on supercomputers...

Can You Predict the Future By Reading Twitter? The Pentagon Thinks Maybe
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Can You Predict the Future By Reading Twitter? The Pentagon Thinks Maybe

The Defense Department wants new computer tools to analyze mounds of unstructured text, blogs, and tweets as part of a coordinated push to help military analysts...

White House Official Calls For Broad Regulations on Internet Use
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White House Official Calls For Broad Regulations on Internet Use

White House Office of Science and Technology deputy chief technology officer Daniel Weitzner is calling for a broad and flexible regulatory framework for Internet...

MIT Team Thinks Outside the Box to Snag Social Media Prize
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MIT Team Thinks Outside the Box to Snag Social Media Prize

A team affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won the U.S. State Department's social media contest, the TAG Challenge, which required participants...
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