The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Stanford University have partnered to save for posterity over 15,000 software programs created in the early days of microcomputing. The 18-month project aims to make these ...
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At the recent SPIE Photonics West 2013 trade show in San Francisco (5-7 February), Luminus Devices Inc of Billerica, MA, USA, which makes PhlatLight (photonic lattice) LEDs for solid-state lighting applications, announced that production ...
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U.S. President Barack Obama has signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to share cyberthreat information with private companies and to create a cybersecurity framework focused on reducing risks to companies providing critical ...
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The SIA and SRC are trying to persuade the US Congress not to cut funds for basic semiconductor R&D. SIA president Rich Templeton argues that funding for bodies like the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of ...
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U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed an executive order, which will require federal agencies to share cyberthreat information with private companies, creating a cybersecurity framework focused on reducing risks to companies ...
Symantec on Wednesday began offering multi-algorithm SSL certificates for Web servers that go beyond traditional crypto to include what’s known as the Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA). The firm ...
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During the last 50 years, the cement industry has been relying on XRF analysis for the quantification of the elemental composition of cement industry-related materials. Sample preparation by pressed powders was commonly used during the ...
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All thanks to deal with Vormetric Virtustream, a cloud software and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider, has added software-based 'data at rest' encryption to its cloud services portfolio through a partnership with Vormetric, a ...
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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) has announced that its yet-to-be-launched BlackBerry 10 platform has been awarded the US government’s FIPS 140-2 security certification. The Federal Information Processing Standard ...
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In industries from mining and manufacturing to construction, transportation, and agriculture, the need to weigh or measure inputs, outputs, and applied force has grown in recent decades to improve production safety and control costs. ...
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The Department of Homeland Security has chosen to feature Code Dx, software assurance visualization technology developed by the Secure Decisions division of Applied Visions, on its Build Security In website. NORTHPORT, NY, August 05, 2012 ...
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HexaTech Inc of Morrisville, NC, USA has received a $2.2m award from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to enable the development of “new power semiconductor technology for the ...
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The industry has welcomed the European Commission's (EC's) ambitious cloud computing strategy but insisted more efforts are needed in areas of cloud standardisation, security and data protection if the EC'sforecasts are to be met. The ...
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Updates to multi-biometric systems include improvements to voice recognition algorithms and the capability of classifying gender in biometric face recognition technology Neurotechnology has announced the release of MegaMatcher 4.4 ...
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Amazon Web Services has submitted an entry to the Cloud Security Alliance's Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR), a move that sheds some light into the security features of its IaaS cloud offering. The CSA launched its STAR program ...
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