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Avi Rubin on Hacking All Sorts of Devices
Avi Rubin is the technical director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and in this talk from the TEDxMidAtlantic conference in November...
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Intel Chefs Bake Wifi Into Mobile Chips
Researchers at Intel have come up with a way to make WiFi faster and more energy efficient.
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Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom
Australian and American physicists have built a working transistor from a single phosphorus atom embedded in a silicon crystal.
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Why 'big Data' Is a Magnet For Startups
Armies of entrepreneurs are trying to make money sifting through mountains of data from the Web and other sources, but one of the biggest challenges is simply getting...
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How to Tell If You're Being Tracked on Safari
If you're on an iPhone or iPad using the most recent version of Apple's operating system, click on the "Settings" icon, and then click on "Safari."
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The Machines Are Talking a Lot
As one of the leading manufacturers of the equipment that routes data around the Internet, Cisco Systems is in good position to know just how many 0s and 1s go...
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How Companies Learn Your Secrets
Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question...
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How Google Tracked Safari Users
Google and other advertising companies have been following iPhone and Apple users as they browse the Web, even though Apple's Safari Web browser is set to block...
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Microchips' Optical Future
To keep energy consumption under control, future chips may need to move data using light instead of electricity—and the technical expertise to build them may reside...
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Flaw Found in an Online Encryption Method
A team of European and American mathematicians and cryptographers have discovered an unexpected weakness in the encryption system widely used worldwide for online...
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Ultrafast Trades Trigger Black Swan Events Every Day, Say Econophysicists
On 6 May 2010, shares on U.S. financial markets suddenly dropped on average by around 10% but in over 300 stocks by more than 60%. Moments later the prices recovered...
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Infrared and 3D Vision Systems Combine to Help Pilots Avoid Crash Landings
When large airliners approach an airport for a landing, a combination of radio signals and high-intensity lighting shows the pilot exactly where the runway is,...
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Social Apps 'harvest Smartphone Contacts'
Twitter has admitted copying entire address books from smartphones and storing the data on its servers, often without customers' knowledge.
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What Dropbox Can Teach S About Cloud Computing
Dropbox is the most deceptively simple of services.
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How Networks of Biological Cells Solve Distributed Computing Problems
Distributed computing is all the rage these days. The idea is to break down computational tasks into convenient chunks and distribute them across a network to a...
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The Blind Codemaker
Researchers at MIT, Tel Aviv University, and Google have developed a coding scheme that guarantees the fastest possible delivery of data over fluctuating wireless...
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Researchers Claim 100-Fold Increase in Data Storage Speed
Researchers at the universities of York and Nijmegen have developed a method for accelerating data storage hundredfold.
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Commercial Drones: A Dogfight at the Faa
Last fall, Russ Freeman's successful business shooting commercial aerial photos and video flew straight into a political battle over control of the nation's skies...
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Spacecraft Computer Issue Resolved
Engineers have found the root cause of a computer reset that occurred two months ago on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and have determined how to correct it.
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