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Court Allows Agents to Secretly Put GPS Trackers on Cars
Law enforcement officers may secretly place a GPS device on a person's car without seeking a warrant from a judge, according to a recent federal appeals court...
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Searching For Fun
Research suggests that search engines could tap into users' need to be entertained.
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Apple Reinvents the Audio Jack
Although Apple is known for filing patents on complex multi-touch algorithms, anti-piracy measures and advanced user interfaces, it still has a focus on basic...
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Now You Can Earn Virtual Currency By Watching Ads
You know the type—social game addicts who pepper your Facebook page with updates about the wine recipe they created playing "FarmVille," or the gem broker they...
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Nsf Awards San Diego Supercomputer Center $2.8 Million For Trestles System
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, $2.8 million to build and deploy...
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Virtual Farm Games Absorb Real Money, Real Lives
Last century's cash crops included tobacco, cotton, and sugar cane. Now we have magic cauliflower and super berries, too—and even though they can't be sold at...
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China Limits Use of Foreign Computer Security Technology
China has ordered its banks and other major companies to limit use of foreign computer security technology, setting up a possible trade clash with the United...
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Lenovo to Develop Game Console
Lenovo Group Ltd. is investing in the development of a new videogame console, part of a broader push by the Chinese personal-computer company to branch out into...
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Google Gives Real-Time Search Its Own Page
Google is digging deeper into real-time search, with a new search page that displays only results from timely sources, like updates from Twitter and other social...
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The Fast Track From Code to Cloud
Combining emerging technologies such as dynamic language platforms, cloud computing, and agile development practices has led to a new paradigm for software development...
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Heady Days of Nanotech Funding Behind It, the .s. Faces Big Challenges
Despite the U.S.'s lead in patenting nanotechnology inventions, it has not been able to translate that success into the marketplace, which has enabled other countries...
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A Search Service that Can Peer Into the Future
Yahoo!'s Barcelona research lab has developed Time Explorer, a prototype news search engine that generates timelines that stretch into the future as well as the...
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Telepresence Robot Replaces Editor at Ieee Spectrum
With several companies offering telepresence robots to act as people's proxies at the office, IEEE Spectrum magazine investigated their use earlier this year by...
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Wikipedia Age Challenges Scholars
For professors, publishing in elite journals is an unavoidable part of university life. The grueling process of subjecting work to the up-or-down judgment of...
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Software Helps Scientists Conduct Hurricane Research
Scientists studying how and why Atlantic hurricanes form will have a better chance of getting the data they need thanks to flight planning software developed at...
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Sizing Samples
Many scientific disciplines use computers to infer patterns in data. But how much data is enough to ensure that the inferences are right?
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U.S. Cyber Defense Needs to Focus on Superior Technology, Official Says
With India and China poised to over take the United States in the training of proficient computer scientists, a top U.S. Defense official has said that America...
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W3c Launches Web Performance Working Group
A new W3C working group will focus on improving the measurement of Web application performance times.The Web Performance Working Group will initially create a common...
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