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AI Will Augment SEO
Adding artificial intelligence to search engines enables enhanced Search Engine Optimization and Marketing.
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STEM Education, Business Schools Need to Be Joined at Hip
Science, technology, engineering, and math programs and business schools should find a way to collaborate and build bridges.
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Google's Coder Tool Turns Raspberry Pi Into a Mini Web Server
A new open source development tool from Google is designed to make it easier to use Raspberry Pi computers to build Web applications.
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Vote Early, Vote Often: Inside Norway's Pioneering Open Source E-Voting Trials
Norway recently held its second e-voting pilot, following an initial trial that took place during the local government elections in 2011.
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Html5 Now Neck and Neck With Native Apps For Developer Love
More developers will trade a superior native experience for the lower cost of maintaining a common code base using HTML5 code in a native app container.
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20 Great Years of Linux and Supercomputers
Linux is now the operating system used on 95.2 percent of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers, according to the most recent Top500 supercomputer rankings.
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Github Improves Open Source Licensing Policies
Until recently, open source development community site GitHub did not have licenses for the majority of its hosted projects.
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Linux Continues to Rule Supercomputers
Linux continues to dominate the list of the world's fastest supercomputers and there is no reason to think that will change anytime soon.
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Microsoft nleashes Bug Bounty Program--for Betas, Too
Microsoft has announced plans to launch three bug bounty programs designed to eliminate security vulnerabilities in its software.
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Cracking the 1,000-Core Processor Power Challenge
Researchers are working on solutions to growing power consumption, as mainstream processors are expected to contain hundreds of cores in the near future.
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Swipe, Shake, CTRL Z? Web Spec Aims to End Input Overload
The World Wide Web Consortium recently published the draft of Indie UI, a specification aimed at making it easier for developers to build Web applications that...
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.N. Plans Internet Governance Amid Outcry to Defund IT
A petition to de-fund the United Nation's telecommunications branch recently emerged, just as the ITU was ready to finalize Internet governance plans at the World...
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Israel Launches Cyber Warfare Training Program
Israel is recruiting top students for a new cyberwarfare training program. The program shows how Israel is advancing in the field of cybernetics to develop "high...
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China to nveil Homebrewed Chip in 2013
Longsoon Technology, which is partly funded by the Chinese Academy of Science, will share details about its Godson eight-core processor at the International Solid...
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New Zealand Software Patent Law 'betrays' Developers
A New Zealand politician has advanced a proposed software patent measure that contains an exemption for software embedded in other inventions. Critics say that ...
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IBM Claims Spintronics Breakthrough With 'Waltzing Electrons' Observations
A team from IBM and ETH Zurich University have directly mapped the formation of a spin helix in a semiconductor for the first time, a development that could lead...
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S'pore Develops Chipset For Fast Data Transfer
A microchip developed in Singapore can transmit data 1,000 times faster than Bluetooth.
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Osama Bin Laden Didn't Use Encryption: 17 Documents Released
It appears that Osama bin Laden didn’t encrypt any of his computer files. If he had, U.S. authorities probably wouldn’t have been able to do much after confiscating...
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Lack of Training Hinders GP in HPC
Several factors, including the lack of training in parallel programming and support from independent software vendors, are major obstacles keeping general-purpose...
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Researchers Find a New Way to Mix Computers and Neurons
Nerve cell tendrils recently grew through tiny tubes made of semiconductor material in groundbreaking research conducted by University of Wisconsin, Madison graduate...
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