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Online library gives readers access to 1.5 million books
Nov 27, 2007 |
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The Million Book Project, an international venture led by Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, Zhejiang University in China, the Indian Institute of Science in India and the Library at Alexandria in Egypt, has ...
More regulations make websites less trustworthy, study shows
Aug 02, 2006 |
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Placing strict controls and regulations on website operators does not make the Internet more secure and private for users, according to a new study. In fact, stringent policies seem to make the matter worse, says Dr. Karim ...
Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate
Nov 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online - stoking debate over whether some scientists have ...
Infovell's 'research engine' finds deep Web pages that Google, Yahoo miss
Sep 08, 2008 |
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According to a study by the University of California at Berkeley, traditional search engines such as Google and Yahoo index only about 0.2% of the Internet. The remaining 99.8%, known as the "deep Web," is ...
Top 10 Internet Crimes of 2006
Apr 20, 2007 |
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What Internet crimes to people complain to the government about?
Hundreds Click on 'Click Here to Get Infected' Ad
May 19, 2007 |
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The fact that 409 people clicked on an ad that offers infection for those with virus-free PCs proves that people will click on just about anything.
UC Berkeley offers courses and symposia through Google Video
Sep 27, 2006 |
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In another innovative move to share its intellectual treasures with the public, the University of California, Berkeley, announced today that it is delivering educational content, including course lectures and ...
Why Encryption Didn't Save TJX
Mar 31, 2007 |
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TJX: It's the target of the largest known customer record theft of all time, and it's a case in point that encryption is not a silver bullet.
Hole Found in Protocol Handling Vital National Infrastructure
Mar 25, 2007 |
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Systems that control dams, oil refineries, railroads and nuclear power plants have a vulnerability that could cause a system takeover, according to a recent research report.
Wolfram Alpha Could Answer Questions that Google Can't
Mar 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new search engine described as an "electronic brain" could make searching the Internet more intelligent. Called Wolfram Alpha, the search engine computes its own answers rather than looking ...
Google Sky Turns Computer Into Telescope
Aug 22, 2007 |
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Imagine cruising the heavens from your desktop and seeing all the spectacular images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Exploding stars and faraway galaxies are just a mouse click away through Sky in Google ...
Security breach at Los Alamos
Jun 15, 2007 |
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The Los Alamos, N.M., National Laboratory reportedly breached national security by sending classified nuclear weapons information over the Internet.
Expert: Wikipedia won't go away, so learn how to use it
Feb 22, 2007 |
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The popularity of Wikipedia makes it important that users learn to use the online collaborative encyclopedia as a starting point for their research rather than as the final word, says a Purdue University communications ...
Stock exchange for 'grid' computing?
Feb 25, 2008 |
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You might soon be selling your spare computer power over the internet, or perhaps buying in extra resources to solve a tricky problem. In either case, network administration used to be a stumbling block – until European researchers ...
Online world as important to Internet users as real world?
Nov 29, 2006 |
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Is the online world as important to Internet users as the real world? Large numbers of Internet users hold such strong views about their online communities that they compare the value of their online world to their real-world ...
