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23 hours ago | News
According
to recent data released by Google, the search engine giant has logged
more than 2.5 million requests in the last 11 months to remove links
believed to be violating Microsoft’s copyrights. This exceeded the
number of complaints about material produced by entertainment companies
pushing for tougher online piracy laws.
May 25 | News
As malware threats expand into new domains and increasingly focus on industrial espionage, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are launching a new weapon to help battle the threats: A malware intelligence system that will help corporate and government security officials share information about the attacks they are fighting.
May 24 | News
Through advanced computer modeling of house fires, mechanical engineers at the University of New South Wales are giving fire fighters a new suite of tools to investigate and battle dangerous blazes in time for the traditionally high-risk winter months. Beginning with an ignition point, the models can map how fires behave as they grow, accurately predicting their overall temperature and pinpointing dangerous hotspots that responding personnel should avoid.
May 22 | News
A biomedical informatics researcher who tracks dangerous viruses as they spread around the globe has restructured his innovative tracking software to promote even wider use of the program around the world.
May 21 | News
Multiphysics,
COMSOL’s software environment for modeling and simulating any
physics-based system, recently received a major update. New capabilities
in version 4.3 include three new discipline-specific add-on modules,
fast and powerful meshing, a new "Double Dogleg" solver for mechanical
contact and highly nonlinear simulations, and numerous user-inspired
enhancements.
May 21 | News
According
to a recent computational study, pollution is warming the atmosphere by
intensifying summer thunderstorm clouds. The effect, say researchers,
outweigh any cooling factors provided by clouds, and global climate
models don't see this effect because thunderstorm clouds simulated in
those models do not include enough detail.
May 18 | News
The
search engine giant has spent the past two years poring through online
encyclopedia Wikipedia, the CIA Factbook and other sources to expand a
database of 12 million items that it picked up as part of its 2010
acquisition of Metaweb. On Wednesday it used this massive database to
launch a new feature that provides a summary of vital information
alongside main search results.
May 16 | News
Navy pilots and other flight specialists soon will have a new "smart machine" installed in training simulators that learns from expert instructors to more efficiently train their students. Sandia National Laboratories' AEMASE is being provided to the Navy as a component of flight simulators.
May 11 | News
Sandia National Laboratories and the U.S. Department of Energy have released a new tool to help utilities, developers, and regulators identify the energy storage options that best meet their needs. Partnering with DNV KEMA, Sandia is releasing Energy Storage Select, or ES-Select, software under a public license to the company.
May 9 | News
Last year, images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars—observations that challenged previously held beliefs that there was not a lot of movement on the red planet's surface. Now, technology developed by a team at the California Institute of Technology has allowed scientists to measure these activities for the very first time.
