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  Adolescents With Autism Spend Free Time Using Solitary, Screen-Based Media

  January 25, 2012 — Children with autism spectrum disorders tend to be fascinated by screen-based technology. A new study found that adolescents with autism (64.2 percent) spend most of their free time using solitary, ... > full story

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  Facebook Is a Community

  January 25, 2012 — Researchers in Italy have used two high-speed computer algorithms to analyze the connections between a large sub-set of the more than half a billion users of the social networking site Facebook to ... > full story
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  New Tool Enhances View of Muscles

  January 23, 2012 — New research is adding to the arsenal of increasingly sophisticated medical imaging tools with a new signal-processing method for viewing muscle activation details never seen before. A novel method ... > full story
• Optics
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  Cooling Semiconductors by Laser Light

  January 22, 2012 — Researchers have combined two fields -- quantum physics and nano physics -- and this has led to the discovery of a new method for laser cooling semiconductor membranes. Semiconductors are vital ... > full story
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  Sensing Technology: Motherboard Monitoring Inspired by the Immune System

  January 22, 2012 — The prevalence of computer networks for sharing resources places increasingly high requirements on the reliability of data centers. The simplest way to diagnose abnormalities in these systems is to ... > full story
• Quantum Computers
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  Quantum Physics Enables Perfectly Secure Cloud Computing

  January 19, 2012 — Researchers have succeeded in combining the power of quantum computing with the security of quantum cryptography and have shown that perfectly secure cloud computing can be achieved using the ... > full story
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  NASA Clears the Runway for Open Source Software

  January 18, 2012 — The NASA Open Government Initiative has launched a new website to expand the agency's open source software development. Open source development, which invites the public access to view and improve ... > full story
• Alternative Fuels
  Nature of Water
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  Computer Simulations Revealing How Methane and Hydrogen Pack Into Gas Hydrates Could Enlighten Alternative Fuel Production and Carbon Dioxide Storage

  January 18, 2012 — For some time, researchers have explored flammable ice for low-carbon or alternative fuel or as a place to store carbon dioxide. Now, a computer analysis of the ice and gas compound, known as a gas ... > full story
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  Faster-Than-Fast Fourier Transform

  January 18, 2012 — Researchers have developed a new algorithm that, in a large range of practically important cases, improves on the fast Fourier transform. Under some circumstances, the improvement can be dramatic -- ... > full story
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  Banks Losing Billions in Fees Due to Overdraft Policy Implemented in 2010: Loss Could Affect Banks' Ability to Lend

  January 18, 2012 — A new study by finance researchers shows that U.S. banks are losing anywhere from $3.8 billion to $5.3 billion in annual revenue due to the Federal Reserve’s 2010 changes to overdraft ... > full story
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  Consumers Should Be Vigilant in Wake of Zappos Cyberattack

  January 18, 2012 — As an estimated 24 million Zappos.com customers begin receiving notifications that some of their personal data have been compromised, an expert is warning those affected to be on the lookout for ... > full story

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  • Zappos Breach Goes Beyond Credit Cards: Consumers Face Identity Theft If Hackers Correlate Other Penetrated Databases
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  Gaming Technology for Calculating Floods

  January 18, 2012 — Norwegian researchers have borrowed a page from game developers to devise simulation technology that can save lives in many parts of the world by helping to reduce the damage from catastrophic ... > full story

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