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• Opponents focus on defeating CISA cyberthreat info sharing bill

  CISA may be delayed after millions of faxes opposed to the bill are delivered to senators

• One in three datacentre servers is a zombie

  A new study says that 30 per cent of all physical servers in data centers are comatose, meaning they use energy but deliver no useful ...

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Tuesday, April 7

  YouTube Kids blasted for ad-heavy content... new battery tech promises one-minute charge times... CurrentC payments coming mid-year

• New battery could reduce phone charging to just one minute

  Researchers say the aluminium-ion battery is safer and cheaper than lithium ion

• Stanford crypto expert Dan Boneh wins $175K computer science award

  Stanford University computer science professor Dan Boneh has been named as the recipient of the 2014 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in Computing Sciences for his work ...

• Stanford breakthrough could make better chips cheaper

  A new process reduces the cost of making gallium arsenide chips and solar cells

Features about Stanford University

• President's cyber security summit: Share attack info but protect privacy, civil liberties

  Participants in the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection Friday called for government/private sector information sharing, updated regulations, and improving the trust citizens ...

• Why we live in an anti-tech age

  Though it seems as if we're sourrounded by innovative technologies, there's a growing counter argument that we're living in a dismal era.

• Bringing brains to computers

  Silicon brains will create new computers that can use the human brain as a model to make decisions

• Driverless cars yield to reality: It's a long road ahead

  Several automotive and tech groups are researching the technology, but a fully self-driving car could be far off

• Google management shuffle: Right move, wrong guy?

  Ousting Eric Schmidt from CEO may make sense, but is co-founder Larry Page really the right person to take over the reins?