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The newly proposed Titan system will extend the range of work that is currently carried out on Oak Ridge’s Jaguar supercomputer.

The 2011 IBM Commuter Pain Survey ranked the emotional and economic toll of commuting in cities around the world.

In the winning oil-removal design, spinning grooved discs pull oily water upward, where metal skimmers strain the oil away.

Connectify offers a software mobile hotspot for Windows laptops and Android devices that requires no additional hardware.

The House is poised to vote on a measure that would not create a permanent Homeland Security Department cybersecurity office, after a committee on Thursday passed authorization legislation that does not mention the program. The move represents a departure from the Senate's version of the bill, which would retain and rename the office to better reflect a new focus on safeguarding critical commercial

Motorola's first enterprise tablet (ET1) gives sales, marketing, servicing, warehousing and delivery personnel a ruggedized alternative to consumer-grade tablets.

However, data breaches aren't the only way criminals get SSNs. A network of cyber-criminals has figured out how the Social Security Administration generates its numbers and is using that to come up with valid Social Security numbers around the time that a child is born. Because the first three digits of a Social Security number reference the region where the number is issued, it's only the last six numbers that are really tied to identity, and those are issued in a predictable sequence.

Organized cyber-criminals have taken what used to be a minor domestic crime and turned it into a global ID trafficking ring. In these cases, the data that's so valuable are the Social Security numbers of young children because they can easily be matched with any name and date of birth and used to create fraudulent identities, obtain credit or even dodge residency rules for getting work in the United States.