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Social networking sites concern cyber-security expertsOf the 200 corporate and government IT professionals in the United States and Canada who were surveyed, 13 percent said they regard so-called Generation Y employees as "a major security concern," and 37 percent tagged them as "somewhat of a security concern." The biggest worry they mentioned was ...
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Nanotechnology appears to fail the moral litmus test of religionWhen it comes to nanotechnologies, Americans have a big problem: Nanotechnology and its capacity to alter the fundamentals of nature, it seems, are failing the moral litmus test of religion. In a report published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, survey results from the United States and ...
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U.S. losing global cyberwar, commission says - Security- msnbc.comThe U.S. faces a cybersecurity threat of such magnitude that the next President should move quickly to create a Center for Cybersecurity Operations and appoint a special White House advisor to oversee it. Those are among the recommendations in a 44-page report by the U.S. Commission on ...
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The Price Is Wrong for Oil Shale and Tar Sand TechAbandoned hope: Colony Oil gave up on this oil shale plant in Colorado 20 years ago. Technology that might revive shale’s prospects is in development. The huge run-up in oil prices over the last several years, reaching a peak of close to US $150 per barrel this past summer, has given energy ...
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Bill Gates presses Obama on stimulus package, foreign aid - CNN.comMicrosoft founder Bill Gates told CNN on Wednesday that he hopes President-elect Barack Obama and Congress immediately craft a wide-ranging stimulus package, to help jump-start the nation's sputtering economy, and double the United States' commitment to foreign aid. "Clearly we need a stimulus ...
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Commentary: How social media shared pain and rage of Mumbai - CNN.comDina Mehta is an ethnographer, social media consultant and blogger based in Mumbai, India; she recounts how social networks channeled the sadness and rage of the attacks into action - I celebrated my 42nd birthday on November 26. We were thinking of stepping out for a coffee at the Taj hotel ...
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1Pentagon Shoots $22 Million Into Guided-Bullet Tech | Danger Room from Wired.comAnd what happens when terrorist assassins get their hands on this?! ... as they did with the shoulder fired missiles (the US admittedly provided them for fighting the Soviets). Oh well, if it can be conceived and can be built, someone would probably do it sooner or later. Might as well be "us" ...
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Fear of more terror attacks could hurt business in IndiaMumbai is trying to limp back to normalcy after terrorist attacks last week left about 195 people dead and close to 300 injured. But there are questions about whether foreigners will continue to take the risk of doing business in the city and the rest of the country, which have faced repeated ...
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New Windows worm builds massive botnetThe worm exploiting a critical Windows bug that Microsoft Corp. patched with an emergency fix in late October is being used to build a new botnet, a security researcher said today. Ivan Macalintal, a senior research engineer with Trend Micro Inc., said that the worm, which his company has ...
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U.S. agency sees robots replacing humans in service jobs by 2025A U.S. government intelligence agency thinks robots may be so capable by 2025 that questions such as "Would you like fries with that?" may be uttered by a smiling machine at the order counter. In a report titled "Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World" that was released last week, the National ...
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