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The Big Business of Smashing Bugs
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The Big Business of Smashing Bugs

Frans Rosén is a tech entrepreneur by day and a bug bounty hunter by night.

Security Risks, Privacy Issues Too Great For Internet Voting
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Security Risks, Privacy Issues Too Great For Internet Voting

The fundamental security risks and privacy problems of Internet voting are too great for its use in public elections, and those problems will not be resolved...

Apple's Contribution to the Smartwatch: An App-Centric Approach and Wi-Fi
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Apple's Contribution to the Smartwatch: An App-Centric Approach and Wi-Fi

As much as patent and trade-dress lawsuits would like to stop it, getting to today's idea of a modern, mature smartphone was a collaborative effort.

Cybercriminals Are Misappropriating Businesses' Web Addresses
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Cybercriminals Are Misappropriating Businesses' Web Addresses

Cybercriminals targeting businesses are stealing more than customer passwords and credit-card numbers these days.

Mistrust and Meddling ­nsettles ­.s. Science Agency
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Mistrust and Meddling ­nsettles ­.s. Science Agency

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has had a tough couple of years.

Mediators Call For Change to Science of Human Brain Project
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Mediators Call For Change to Science of Human Brain Project

Mediators appointed to analyse the rifts within Europe’s ambitious €1-billion (US$1.1 billion) Human Brain Project (HBP) have called for far-reaching changes both...

Silicon Valley Is Trying to Make Humans Immortal—and Finding Some Success
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Silicon Valley Is Trying to Make Humans Immortal—and Finding Some Success

Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, plans to live to be 120. Compared with some other tech billionaires, he doesn't seem particularly ambitious.

Here's What Will Truly Change Higher Education: Online Degrees That Are Seen as Official
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Here's What Will Truly Change Higher Education: Online Degrees That Are Seen as Official

Three years ago, technology was going to transform higher education. What happened?

Google Ventures and the Search For Immortality
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Google Ventures and the Search For Immortality

"If you ask me today, is it possible to live to be 500? The answer is yes," Bill Maris says one January afternoon in Mountain View, California.

CIA to Make Sweeping Changes, Focus More on Cyber Ops: Agency Chief
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CIA to Make Sweeping Changes, Focus More on Cyber Ops: Agency Chief

The Central Intelligence Agency is launching one of the biggest reorganizations in its history, aimed in part at sharpening its focus on cyber operations and incorporating...

To Bring Virtual Reality to Market, Furious Efforts to Solve Nausea
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To Bring Virtual Reality to Market, Furious Efforts to Solve Nausea

Few technologies have generated more attention than virtual reality, which promises to immerse people in 3-D games and video.

Year Zero: Our Life Timelines Begin
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Year Zero: Our Life Timelines Begin

In 10 years, every human connected to the Internet will have a timeline.

China Says Tech Firms Have Nothing to Fear from Anti-Terror Law
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China Says Tech Firms Have Nothing to Fear from Anti-Terror Law

China's proposed anti-terrorism law will not affect the legitimate interests of technology firms, a top Chinese spokeswoman said Wednesday after U.S. President ...

There Is Actually One Thing You Can Do to Fight the Surveillance Machine
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There Is Actually One Thing You Can Do to Fight the Surveillance Machine

Reading this right now?

An ­neasy Relationship Between Telecom and Tech
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An ­neasy Relationship Between Telecom and Tech

For the next four days, a sprawling conference center here will become the global hub for the telecommunications and technology industries.

Pentagon Shops in Silicon Valley For Game Changers
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Pentagon Shops in Silicon Valley For Game Changers

A small group of high-ranking Pentagon officials made a quiet visit to Silicon Valley in December to solicit national security ideas from start-up firms with little...

China Draft Counterterror Law Strikes Fear in Foreign Tech Firms
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China Draft Counterterror Law Strikes Fear in Foreign Tech Firms

China is weighing a far-reaching counterterrorism law that would require technology firms to hand over encryption keys and install security "backdoors", a potential...

Why Big Tech Isn't Celebrating Its Big Victory on Net Neutrality
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Why Big Tech Isn't Celebrating Its Big Victory on Net Neutrality

Not long ago, Google execs would have been popping champagne corks over today's big news from the Federal Communications Commission.

How Madden Ratings Are Made
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How Madden Ratings Are Made

Hunched over a keyboard, surrounded by computer monitors, Donny Moore, 37, controls the fate of the National Football League.

Why the Fax Machine Isn't Quite Dead Yet
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Why the Fax Machine Isn't Quite Dead Yet

When do you think the fax machine was invented?
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