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Managing the Hacks

Recent cyber attacks have gotten the attention of everyone from the public to the president. Transcending national barriers and international law,...

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Keeping Hackers Out

Recent hacking incidents have put Cyber Security on the agenda. The President will talk about it in his State of the Union Address next week. So what...

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Meet the Hackers: A Force for Good

There’s a Hackathon set for this weekend at Virginia Tech. Students from around the country will be in Blacksburg. ---But no need to worry. These are...

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Tech Talent: How Fixing One File Can Collect Money for Cities

Towns and cities in Virginia are perpetually short of cash, but a Charlottesville man says there’s an easy fix. If they could get one state commission...

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Second Wind for Stability Tunnel at VT

If you think it’s windy outside, that’s nothing compared to the wind speeds inside the wind tunnel at Virginia Tech. Built by NASA during World War Two...

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Cyber Attack Battle Plan

The battle against cyber attacks is being joined in Virginia. Political leaders are looking for new weapons to fight the wave of breaches and hack...

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TEDxRVA: Uncommon

Organizers of this week’s TEDxRVA event are hoping for a packed house at Richmond’s Carpenter Theatre Friday, April 10. The event features 22 speakers,...

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Governor McAuliffe Encourages Buckling Down on Cyber Security

In light of the recent data breach at Anthem and what some believe will be an inevitable cyberattack by sophisticated terrorists, Governor McAuliffe is...

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VaNews: Self-Driving Cars, Passenger Rail Service

Virginia is making a move to embrace the future of train travel as plans for faster passenger rail service between Richmond and DC are considered......

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Boosting Cyber-Security

With potentially millions of Virginians victimized by the recent cyber-attack against federal employees, state lawmakers want to expedite the formation...

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Bioprinter at UVA Designed to Print Tissue and Organs

Organ donation saves millions of people each year, but the fact is that there aren’t enough organs to go around. Now, scientists, engineers and...

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Birds of a Feather: VT Risk Study Shows We're Influenced by Those Around Us

The latest trends, whatever they’re surrounding, can be anything from fun and fabulous…to awful and appalling. And it turns out, there’s a reason behind...

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Broadening Virginia's Broadband

Today, access to high speed Internet is considered as essential to modern life as electricity was, generations ago. But most areas in rural Virginia...

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Pluto Flyby

It’s taken nine years for the NASA spaceship New Horizons to travel nearly 3 billion miles – to a far corner of our solar system, but later this month,...

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Computers4Kids

Even if they carry an American brand name like Dell or HP, most of the personal computers in this country are made elsewhere, but a Charlottesville...

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