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The National Science Foundation has kicked off a successor to its popular Teragrid project, that links together 17 of the nation’s fastest supercomputer and software development centers with infrastructure support to realize the world’s most advanced applications in materials science, medicine, genomics, astronomy, biology and specialty fields like earthquake engineering. The new Extreme Science and

  On June 8, NASA joins organizations from across the globe to test out the next generation of the Internet, called Internet Protocol version six or IPv6. As more devices and people come online, the older Internet Protocol version four (IPv4) addresses — those sets of numbers that uniquely identify every device on the Internet

      I was surprised to hear former Google CEO Eric Schmidt publicly lament lost opportunities and missed chances to catch Facebook the other day. I used to envy Google and the vast digital empire that Schmidt commanded.  Google had one of the most intricate monopolies of all time. It had the most impressive dataset

        The world’s first commercially available quantum computer, which uses principles of quantum mechanics rather than classical mechanics, was sold to aerospace, defense and security company Lockheed Martin.   Unlike computers based on transistors, quantum computers rely on principles of quantum mechanics to conduct operations. The computers take advantage of properties like

  Geosocial is huge trend that continues to entertain us all. As we all know, things change incredibly quickly in the world of the internet, so we decided to update our infographic The Geosocial Universe a few months short of the one year anniversary of its first iteration. Once again, we look to answer the

    Today, Sony issued an official statement about the resumption of PlayStation Network services, starting soon. The company also revealed plans to compensate subscribers with some freebees as part of the “Welcome Back” program, which include 30 days free PlayStation Plus and Qriocity music streaming services. Sony will reveal further details about the freebees on

  Still down? I was wondering why my PSP wasnt logging in for the past week. Kev _____________ Update 4/26/11 A concerning updating coming out of Sony today regarding their PlayStation Network with two spokesmen confirming the company does not yet know whether users’ personal details – including credit card numbers – were stolen as

DNSSEC FAQs In 2010 and 2011, we are conducting a DNSSEC technical trials in our production network in order to prepare for the full scale deployment of DNSSEC (which began in October 2010). All Comcast customers will eventually be automatically migrated to our DNSSEC validating servers. If you don’t want to wait, you can immediately

The Internet is about to run out of new addresses, a milestone that is spurring Web giants like Facebook Inc. and Google Inc. to develop new versions of their sites and prompting carriers like AT&T Inc. and others to upgrade networks. This week, the last batch of existing Internet protocol addresses is set to run

By Brian Barrett, Sep 23, 2010 05:22 PM Image via Wikipedia The FCC just cleared a path for a new generation of “Super Wi-Fi” technologies. Sounds great! But what the heck is Super Wi-Fi? Super Wi-Fi is still Wi-Fi… It’s not as though Super Wi-Fi is some entirely alien concept. For all intents and purposes,

Cute Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg&feature=player_embedded These smart cards are the actual keys to the Internet. There are seven of them and they hold the power to restarting the world wide web “in the event of a catastrophic event.” The basic idea is that in the event of an Internet catastrophe, the DNSSEC (domain name system security) could

The Internet will run out of Internet addresses in about 1 year’s time, we were told today by John Curran, President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). The same thing was also stated recently by Vint Cerf, Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist. The main reason for the concern? There’s an explosion of

Promoting Geeks, OMG !!! Alright kids, get a Job ! Start hacking today   (Kev) By Byron Acohido, USA TODAY Nationwide campaigns to steer youthful techies into careers defending the Internet are gaining steam. The federal government, education officials and giant military contractors are collaborating to recruit a new class of tech professional specifically trained

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – The rise of smart phones has presented Hewlett-Packard Co. with a problem. Vyomesh Joshi, the vice president of HP’s Imaging and Printing Group, introduces a line of HP printers, Monday, June 7, 2010, in New York. The web-connected machines will enable users to email documents from any platform to the printer

The USA has replaced China as the top source of computer servers being used by cybercriminals to dish out malicious programs. Kaspersky Lab reports that 28% of 1.9 million servers it found distributing malware in the first three months of this year were located in the U.S. That compares to China as the source of

Elias Bizannes is the chairperson and executive director of the DataPortability Project; founder of the Startup Bus; creator of the Silicon Beach community; and manages the finance function at search engine startup Vast.com. He previously was at PricewaterhouseCoopers Australia, where he rolled out a CEO-sponsored social media program using to change collaboration practices at the

Editor’s note: The following is a guest post written by Robert Scoble, who travels the world for Rackspace interviewing tech geeks for building43.com. He’s one of the most popular (stalked) users of location-based services and has 8,215 friends on Foursquare. Here he writes about what the location-based world could look like in 2012 and what might keep it from

Reality is scarier than fiction — especially when it comes to what hackers can do. In many bizarre-but-true ways, your home is wide open to hacker attacks. Right now. While you’re reading this, a criminal could be logging in to your router and using it as a porn server. He could be using a Bluetooth