Imperial Valley News Center
Imperial Valley Scam Alert
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- Written by Imperial County Sheriff’s Office
Imperial, California - A scam is trying to take advantage of residents of Imperial County. A subject pretending to be a Deputy from the Imperial County Sheriff’s Office is calling local residents advising that they have a warrant for their arrest.
Browsing in Public
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- Written by Larry Hardesty
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a new system that allows Web users to share self-selected aspects of their online activity with their friends and the general public. The hope is to give users themselves, as well as academics and other scientists conducting research in the public interest, access to the same type of browsing data that big Web companies currently collect and mine to better target products to individual consumers.
The beginning of the end for encryption schemes?
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- Written by Jennifer Chu
Cambridge, Massachusetts - What are the prime factors, or multipliers, for the number 15? Most grade school students know the answer - 3 and 5 - by memory. A larger number, such as 91, may take some pen and paper. An even larger number, say with 232 digits, can (and has) taken scientists two years to factor, using hundreds of classical computers operating in parallel.
Neuroscientists discover a gene that controls worms’ behavioral state
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- Written by Anne Trafton
Cambridge, Massachusetts - In a study of worms, MIT neuroscientists have discovered a gene that plays a critical role in controlling the switch between alternative behavioral states, which for humans include hunger and fullness, or sleep and wakefulness.
Carbon nanotubes improve metal’s longevity under radiation
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- Written by David L. Chandler
Cambridge, Massachusetts - One of the main reasons for limiting the operating lifetimes of nuclear reactors is that metals exposed to the strong radiation environment near the reactor core become porous and brittle, which can lead to cracking and failure. Now, a team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has found that, at least in some reactors, adding a tiny quantity of carbon nanotubes to the metal can dramatically slow this breakdown process.
Code of the humans
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- Written by Peter Dizikes
Cambridge, Massachusetts - For many years, researchers tried to teach other kinds of animals some human language. Chimps, dolphins, gorillas - it didn’t seem to matter which animals they tried. Few experiments were regarded as success stories.
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