http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (Phys.org) —A team of scientists, led by ecologist Lucas Joppa of Microsoft Research, has published a commentary piece in the journal Science, highlighting what they say is a growing problem in research efforts. They suggest that an overreliance on source code that has not been properly vetted is increasingly leading to incorrect research effort results. http://phys.org/news287999252.html Technology Fri, 17 May 2013 11:00:02 EST news287999252 General Motors says a new information technology center in suburban Atlanta—the third of four planned by the largest U.S. automaker—will open in March and create 1,000 white-collar jobs as part of its new focus on producing software and other applications in-house. http://phys.org/news277044270.html Technology Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:44:35 EST news277044270 (Phys.org)—Files obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and provided to CNET show that the National Security Agency (NSA) under its secret Perfect Citizen program is looking at the computerized systems that control large-scale utilities, checking for vulnerabilities including power grid and gas pipeline controllers. The U.S. government relies on commercial utilities for electricity, telecommunications, and other infrastructure requirements The program seeks to carry out "vulnerability exploration and research" against computerized controllers involved in these utilities. http://phys.org/news275756308.html Technology Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:58:34 EST news275756308 When Rick Smolan attended a parent-teacher meeting at his kids' New York City school recently, a spirited discussion broke out about why students were being allowed to text and post on social sites during school hours. http://phys.org/news274024998.html Technology Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:10:01 EST news274024998 IBM today announced new software to help organizations bring intelligence to the products, systems and applications people use everyday. From creation to development and delivery, the new software simplifies the entire process enabling organizations to reduce costs, address compliance and regulatory requirements and ultimately get innovative products to market quickly. http://phys.org/news271927651.html Technology Mon, 12 Nov 2012 07:27:41 EST news271927651 When the team behind DARPA's Plan X mapped out where it wanted to go with research in the development of cyber capabilities and platforms, it knew the DARPA approach to problem solving included soliciting input from the leading experts in the field. On October 15 and 16, DARPA outlined its plans for Plan X to a packed house of potential developers and performers and solicited their feedback.  http://phys.org/news269768278.html Technology Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:38:08 EST news269768278 Imagine holding your smartphone at someone using sign language and then their words start scrolling across the screen. http://phys.org/news268558072.html Technology Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:27:59 EST news268558072 Silicon Valley, it turns out, doesn't revolve around the stock prices of Facebook and its playful sidekick, Zynga. http://phys.org/news266513423.html Technology Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:50:02 EST news266513423 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. http://phys.org/news256910673.html Technology Tue, 22 May 2012 13:05:15 EST news256910673 A US judge has given a green light to a lawsuit charging Apple, Google, Pixar and other technology-driven firms with colluding to keep salaries in check by agreeing not to poach one another's software engineers. http://phys.org/news254064917.html Technology Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:35:33 EST news254064917 Apple, which relies on Asian contractors to manufacture its iPhones and iPads, said in a report released Friday that it has directly or indirectly created 514,000 jobs in the United States though its gadget ecosystem. http://phys.org/news250336217.html Technology Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:50:24 EST news250336217 A padlocked icon in a web-browser or a URL starting with https provides communication security over the Internet. The icon or URL indicates OpenSSL, a cryptography toolkit implementing the SSL protocol, or a similar system is being used. New research by a collaborative team has developed an attack that can circumvent the security OpenSSL should provide. The attack worked on a very specific version of the OpenSSL software, 0.9.8g, and only when a specific set of options were used. http://phys.org/news249713442.html Technology Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:00:58 EST news249713442 US computer giant Dell plans to open "cloud computing" research and support centres in Ireland, creating 150 jobs for the heavily indebted country, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny announced on Tuesday. http://phys.org/news226659245.html Technology Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:01:07 EST news226659245 The head of Google's search evaluation team shakes his head dismissively at the idea of anyone thinking the firm's winning Internet-sifting formula is completed. Far from it. http://phys.org/news221973631.html Technology Thu, 14 Apr 2011 04:20:45 EST news221973631 Insomnia is bad news for software engineers' quality of life and deserves greater recognition and attention, according to new research by Sara Sarrafi Zadeh and Khyrunnisa Begum from the University of Mysore in India. Their work shows that poor sleep has a bearing on quality of life - affecting physical and mental health in particular - in this group with high levels of job-related stress. Their paper is published online in Springer's journal Applied Research in Quality of Life. http://phys.org/news209645028.html Medicine & Health Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:43:59 EST news209645028 (PhysOrg.com) -- Software underlies modern life, keeping everything from mobile phone networks functioning to planes in the air, but ensuring increasingly complex systems stay free of faults has become an epic task. What if software could heal itself? http://phys.org/news192126211.html Technology Mon, 03 May 2010 19:00:01 EST news192126211 (PhysOrg.com) -- As part of its effort to speed up the Web, Google is experimenting with SPDY, a new application layer protocol, that it hopes will speed up the conversation between browsers and Web servers and enable Web pages to download up to twice as fast. http://phys.org/news177581905.html Technology Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:19:06 EST news177581905 A team of Carnegie Mellon University engineers led by Levent Burak Kara and Kenji Shimada have developed software that will let engineers design new products by simply sketching their ideas on a tablet computer. http://phys.org/news151080012.html Technology Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:40:12 EST news151080012