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Mind-Goggling
If you think the art of mind-reading is a conjuring trick, think again. Over the past few years, the ability to connect first monkeys and then men to machines...
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Feds Shift Tracking Defense
The U.S. Department of Justice now says its use of a cellphone-tracking device in a controversial Arizona case could be considered a "search" under the Fourth...
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Governments Turn to Hacking Techniques For Surveillance of Citizens
In a luxury Washington, D.C., hotel last month, governments from around the world gathered to discuss surveillance technology they would rather you did not know...
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Japan Pushes World's Fastest Computer Past 10 Petaflop Barrier
The Japanese have broken the 10 petaflop barrier. On Wednesday, Japanese IT giant Fujitsu and the government-funded RIKEN research lab announced the supercomputer...
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Stuxnet Raises 'blowback' Risk In Cyberwar
The Stuxnet computer worm, arguably the first and only cybersuperweapon ever deployed, continues to rattle security experts around the world, one year after its...
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Robots Are Taking Mid-Level Jobs, Changing the Economy
The eventual replacement of humans by robots and computers in enough jobs will eventually transform the economic landscape, and this process has already begun,...
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MSU Prof's Fingerprint Software Helps Nail Criminals
Michigan State University professor Anil Jain has developed software that detects altered fingerprints. He recently received an FBI grant to further develop the...
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Could Social Media Be sed to Detect Disease Outbreaks?
University of Bristol researchers are studying whether social media can be used to track an event or phenomenon. Professors Nello Cristianini and Vaseleios Lampos...
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How to Predict the Future
Imagining the future, we naturally think of it as a different place to the one we live in now. It is populated with new technologies, advanced science, and perhaps...
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Relief From "parking Wars"
Researchers have developed PARKAGENT, a computer simulator that models the real-life parking challenges of specific cities, identifying different strategies for...
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Cyber-Attackers Already Targeting Critical Infrastructure: DHS
Hackers are already targeting critical U.S. infrastructure, and have even come close to bringing down segments of them, according to U.S. Department of Homeland...
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The Future of Riots
On 6 August, peaceful protests over the police shooting of a local man in London's Tottenham district exploded into full-blown riots. During four days of assaults...
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How Technical Glitches Foiled the Russian Sleeper Spies
Spying for Russia can be a hard life. The feds are on your trail, always trying to find out who you’re meeting with and talking to.
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Internet Responsible For 2 Percent of Global Energy sage
The Internet is responsible for 170 to 307 gigawatts of global energy consumption, according to the University of California, Berkeley's Justin Ma and the International...
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China Tangles with Internet Access
Internet giants like Google and Twitter have had to beat a retreat from China after being blocked or restricted, and now, some tech lobbies are stepping up pressure...
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In Surprise, China nveils Supercomputer Based on Its Own Chips
China has made its first supercomputer based on Chinese microprocessor chips, an advance that surprised high-performance computing specialists in the United States...
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The Making of Arduino
How five friends engineered a small circuit board that’s taking the DIY world by storm.
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Kevin Mitnick Rates Today's Blackhats
Kevin Mitnick was hacking when the LulzSec kids were still in training pants.
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New Technology Pinpoints Anomalies in Complex Financial Data
Battelle researchers at the U.S. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed Anomalator, analytical software designed to recognize anomalous information...
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