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Following the example of the United Kingdom, San Francisco officials have installed two surveillance cameras in a high-crime area. This popular trend is perhaps only the beginning of an "always on" surveillance society. Compared with the 4.2 million cameras installed in the UK, San Francisco's two ...

Imagine an automated medical treatment system that does not require onsite medical personnel on the front lines of battle, and is ready to receive, assess, and stabilize wounded soldiers during the critical hours following injury. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Science...

U.S. supercomputing efforts are making up for the country's earlier loss of the speed title to the Japanese Earth Simulator, with two new systems poised to garner top spots on the Top500 Supercomputer list due out next week. The U.S. Department of Energy this week announced that the IBM BlueGene/L ...

The U.S. Supreme Court today chose not to hear an appeal from the recording and film industries regarding file sharing. The Recording Industry Association of America had invoked copyright law in an attempt to force ISPs such as Verizon to hand over the names of customers who might be swapping protec...

When old ideas meet new technology, the result is sometimes a comedy of errors. Such is the case for New York Senator Hillary Clinton, whose outdated thinking produced many a blunder. On one recent occasion, she played the protectionist card on the issue of outsourcing and got caught in her own hypo...

The early-morning sunshine that lit up the outskirts of Los Angeles on March 13, 2004, revealed a strange and wonderful collection of vehicles gathered in the dusty landscape. A variety of four-wheel-drive trucks and SUVs bristling with electronic gear contrasted with custom-built models resembling ...

Established in 1958, the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency -- most commonly known as DARPA -- has played a pivotal role in supporting innovative research, hosting some of the best as well as the strangest research projects, and garnering a reputation as a hugely influential center of intelle...

Under an interdisciplinary project collectively known as the Semantic Web, computer scientists around the world are working on ways to revolutionize the Internet. The researchers -- from Europe, Asia and the United States -- are developing standards, protocols and technologies that will advance the ...