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Article | 16/05/2013 NetChoice: California privacy bills are bad for Internet
E-commerce trade group NetChoice takes aim at state legislation -- and at open access and privacy advocates -- in the newest list of bills it deems wo...
Article | 14/05/2013 Court orders names to be withheld before release of Aaron Swartz records
A U.S. federal court has modified a protective order to allow disclosure of the court records of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, but ruled that names ...
Article | 23/01/2013 New molecules could bring super-dense, solid-state hard disk alternatives
A recent breakthrough in storage research may someday produce a new type of solid-state device that can be used like a hard disk drive and holds 1,000...
Article | 14/01/2013 MIT to probe its role in Aaron Swartz's suicide
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is conducting an inquiry into its role in the legal struggles that are believed to have lead to the suicide ...
Article | 24/12/2012 2012: The year that coding became de rigueur
Does true literacy now include the ability to write software programs, just as it does the ability to read, write and do sums?
Article | 19/12/2012 MIT research shows new magnetic state that could aid quantum computing
Researchers at MIT and other institutions have demonstrated a new type of magnetism, only the third kind ever found, and it may find its way into futu...
Article | 24/12/2011 Naval researchers pioneer TCP-based spam detection
A group of researchers from the U.S. Naval Academy has developed a technique for analyzing email traffic in real-time to identify spam messages as the...
Article | 20/12/2011 MIT to open source educational software
As part of an initiative to expand its online course offerings, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology plans to release as open source the software...
Article | 4/11/2011 Ongoing drive-by download campaign hijacked MIT server
A server belonging to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was commandeered by hackers who used it to launch attacks against other websites as pa...
Article | 8/09/2011 Senators push for changes in cybercrime law
The main U.S. law targeting cybercrime may need to be changed because it has allowed law enforcement agencies to target people who simply violate webs...
Article | 20/07/2011 Internet activist charged with hacking into MIT network
The cofounder of online news site Reddit has been charged with computer intrusion, fraud and data theft for allegedly stealing 4.8 million documents f...
Article | 30/06/2011 Researchers propose 'skinning' bridges for fault detection
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Potsdam in Germany have pioneered a new way to continually monitor the phys...
Article | 2/06/2011 Cybersecurity research consortium: New tech on the way
An 18-month-old cybersecurity research consortium organized by Northrop Grumman is making progress and should have technologies ready to deploy in abo...
Article | 13/04/2011 IBM's Watson not as smart as you think
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -- As smart as IBM's Watson supercomputer may have seemed while defeating two former Jeopardy champions , it wouldn't be able to hold...
Article | 30/03/2011 Researchers develop artificial leaf
A research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) led by Dr. Daniel Nocera, Ph.D., claims to have made a drastic discovery in the w...

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