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IT Industry’s Carbon Challenge: Innovating for Efficiency

Unless the IT industry adopts new energy-efficient technologies in the coming decade, it runs a serious risk of being unable to contribute to growing the…

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BLADE Software Eliminates “Drive-By Downloads” from Malicious Websites

These so-called “drive-by downloads” signal a shift away from using spam and malicious e-mail attachments to infect computers. Approximately 560,000 websites…

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Georgia Tech Builds System to Stop Phone Phishing Scams

Voice phishing (or “vishing”) has become much more prevalent with the advent of cellular and voice IP (VoIP) networks, which enable criminals both to route…

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Powerful supercomputer peers into the origin of life

A research team led by Jeremy Smith, who directs ORNL's Center for Molecular Biophysics and holds a Governor's Chair at University of Tennessee, used molecular…

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Explore New Software for Genome-Wide Expression Analysis

In particular, exons of many genes encode protein variants involved with important cellular processes. While the measured differences between the variants are…

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New Intelligent Maritime Surveillance System Unveiled

The system has been designed by scientists from this Madrid university for Núcleo CC, a company which develops surveillance systems for the maritime and…

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Smart Grid Information Clearinghouse Web Portal Launched

The web portal is the platform for direct sharing and dissemination of relevant smart grid information, ranging from background documents, deployment…

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New Arctic Climate Reanalysis Prototype Enhances Polar Modeling

From his laboratory at The Ohio State University’s Byrd Polar Research Center (BPRC), the senior research scientist this week unveiled a low-resolution…

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Model aims to reduce disaster toll on city's social, economic fabric

“The model works for any type of disaster that influences the infrastructure,” said Makarand Hastak, head of construction engineering and management and a…

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If Drivers Don’t Hear Directions, They Can Feel Them

The researchers say they don’t want their results to encourage dangerous and distracted driving by cell phone users. Instead, they hope the study will point to…

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Drive Safer: Control Navigation with Finger Gestures

If drivers are yakking on cell phones and don't hear spoken instructions to turn left or right from a passenger or navigation system, they still can get…

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Bringing health care in Africa into the electronic age

But what’s health care got to do with software design?Lots, explains Seebregts, a senior manager at the South African Medical Research Council, Executive…

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Open Source Apps: Design Across All Devices Seamlessly

With the mobile internet growing exponentially, the call to develop a single universal platform for the development of mobile internet applications is becoming…

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Grasping the Tree of Life: There is an App for That Too

The new "TimeTree" application lets anyone with an Apple iPhone harness a vast Internet storehouse of data about the diversity of life, from bacteria to humans. The intuitive interface is designed to answer a simple question, quickly and authoritatively: how long ago did species A and species B share a common ancestor? "Our new iPhone app can be fun for people who want to learn how long ago their cat and dog began evolving down different evolutionary paths, in addition…

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Lightweight True Random Number Generators Reach New Milestone

Members of the Institute's cryptography research team have produced a series of circuits that are up to 50 per cent smaller than anything else currently…

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Siemens Midas 2.0: Enhanced Mining Machinery Performance

Compared with the previous version, the database connection has been updated in particular and the user interface given a simpler and more flexible design.Built on the solid foundation of the .NET platform, the Midas 2.0 solution uses an active SQL Server database to deliver substantial performance increases over the previous release….

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