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What Location Data, Exactly, Does an Iphone Reveal?
On Wednesday, security researchers demonstrated that the certain versions of the iPhone and iPad were logging and storing location data about their owners. Long...
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Csail Researcher Creates Customizable Buttons
New technology developed by a systems robotics engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory can...
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Meet the Fastest Public-Key Algorithm Few Have Even Heard Of
The Accredited Standards Committee X9 has approved NTRUEncrypt, a public-key algorithm that is considered to be faster than both elliptic-curve cryptography and...
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Microsoft Browser Would Offer Personalization Along With Privacy Protection
Microsoft researchers have developed RePriv, a browser that analyzes users' online behavior and controls how their personal information is released to sites that...
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Online Cash Bitcoin Could Challenge Governments, Banks
Bitcoin is an open source distributed and anonymous digital currency created by Satoshi Nakamoto to enable people to exchange money without being traced.
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In Online Games, a Path to Young Consumers
Deep into one of her favorite computer games, Lesly Lopez, 10, moves her mouse to click on a cartoon bee. She drags and drops it into an empty panel, creating...
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The World's Most Complicated Rube Goldberg Machine
At an annual contest for Rube Goldberg machines at Purdue University, the home team wins with a contraption that smashes the requirement to perform a simple task...
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The Botnets That Won't Die
New communications schemes could make zombie PC networks far more difficult to shut down.
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Covert Hard Drive Fragmentation Embeds a Spy's Secrets
Good news for spies. There is now a way to hide data on a hard drive without using encryption. Instead of using a cipher to scramble text, the method involves...
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This Tech Bubble Is Different
Tech bubbles happen, but we usually gain from the innovation left behind. This one—driven by social networking—could leave us empty-handed.
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New Site to Use Crowd-Sourcing as Means to Translate the Internet
Carnegie Mellon University crowdsourcing researchers are setting up a Web site that will enable people who are learning foreign languages to translate Web content...
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European E-Science Group Extends Cloud Focus
The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG), which consists of more than 100 members from European institutions, has issued a draft report illustrating how cloud...
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Nasa's Hubble Celebrates 21st Anniversary with 'rose' of Galaxies
To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment into space, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md...
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The Search Engine That Predicts What You Want
In the future the news will find you—at least according to Futureful, a Finnish startup building a predictive discovery iPad app that will deliver personalised...
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Got an Iphone or 3g Ipad? Apple Is Recording Your Moves
A hidden file in iOS 4 is regularly recording the position of devices.
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CIA Recipe For Invisible Ink Among Newly Released Wwi-Era Documents
So you want to open sealed envelopes without getting caught? Here’s the secret, according to one of the six oldest classified documents in possession of the Central...
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New Spin on Graphene
University of Manchester researchers have shown that electric current can magnetize graphene, a potential breakthrough for spintronics.
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Open Source Programming Tools on the Rise
Several open source programming tools are gaining in popularity as developers seek new ways to revise, fix and extend their codes.
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