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Can the Kremlin's Silicon Valley Succeed?
Russia has chosen a site and is finalizing plans to start a Silicon Valley-like innovation center near Moscow.
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Comcast Ruling Raises Questions on FCC Regulation
At first glance, Tuesday's federal court ruling on Comcast looked like a clean win for the cable giant and for competitors including Time Warner and AT&T. The court...
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Combing Medical Records For Research
When the stimulus bill passed last year--allocating $20 billion to help doctors and hospitals adopt electronic medical records (EMRs)--many scientists were excited...
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Fcc Loses Comcast Challenge
Comcast on Tuesday won its federal lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission in a ruling that undermines the agency's ability to regulate Internet service...
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After Patent on Genes Is Invalidated, Taking Stock
Many biotechnology stocks fell on Tuesday as investors struggled to understand the impact of a ruling that threw out parts of two gene patents and called into question...
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Debunkers of Fictions Sift the Net
It is one of the paradoxes of the Internet. Along with the freest access to knowledge the world has ever seen comes a staggering amount of untruth, from imagined...
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Technology Coalition Calls For an pdate of Online Privacy Laws
A broad technology coalition would like to see the Electronic Communications Privacy Act updated to define the U.S. government's access to e-mail and private files...
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Pedophiles in Chatrooms May Be Trapped By Their Typing
Newcastle University researchers are developing technology that could be used to prevent convicted sex offenders from committing further crimes. The technology...
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Biometric Identity Project in India Aims to Provide For Poor, End Corruption
In this country of 1.2 billion people, Inderjit Chaurasia could not prove his identity. When the migrant worker tried to open his first bank account in New Delhi...
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Spies Among Us?
Governments' practice of electronic surveillance—and the growing use of warrantless wiretapping—has observers deeply concerned.
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Robots Gear Up For Disaster Response
After 15 years of research, robots for search and rescue may be nearing prime time.
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Tjx Hacker Gets 20 Years in Prison
Convicted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for leading a gang of cyberthieves who stole more than 90 million credit and...
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Iphone App to Sidestep At&t
For a little $1 iPhone app, Line2 sure has the potential to shake up an entire industry. It can save you money. It can make calls where AT&T’s signal is weak,...
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Law Enforcement Lobbies Hard For Icann Change
U.S. and U.K. law enforcement officials are lobbying ICANN to impose more stringent regulations on registrars for generic top-level domains.
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Legislators Propose International Cybercrime Cooperation Laws
The recently introduced International Cybercrime Reporting and Cooperation Act would require the U.S. government to study the cybercrime policies of other nations...
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Silicon Valley Loses Foreign Talent
Silicon Valley is losing more foreign-born executives, engineers, and scientists due to better opportunities in their native countries, tough U.S. immigration laws...
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Big Brother at the Movies: Can They Really Do That?
When it comes to portraying Big Brother on the big screen, how close is Hollywood fiction to real-world fact? Intercepting private cell phone calls. Deploying...
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How Privacy Vanishes Online
If a stranger came up to you on the street, would you give him your name, Social Security number and e-mail address? Yet people often dole out all kinds of personal...
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Undercover Feds on Social Networking Sites Raise Questions
The next time someone tries to "friend" you on Facebook, it may turn out to be an undercover fed looking to examine your private messages and photos, or surveil...
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