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F.b.i. Agents Get Leeway to Push Privacy Bounds
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household...
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Bitcoin: The Hacker Currency That's Taking Over the Web
Global, private and untraceable, it's the monetary system of choice for libertarians, geeks, businesspeople, and, apparently, drug kingpins.
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Has Facebook Peaked?
Facebook's active user base grew by only 1.7% in May. That's about half its usual growth rate, and it came after similarly slow growth in April. According to Inside...
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Who Is Behind the Hacks?
Every day there's another report of a computer hack. Yesterday it was a video game company and a U.S. Senate database. And today it could be the Federal Reserve...
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Thieves Found Citigroup Site an Easy Entry
Think of it as a mansion with a high-tech security system—but the front door wasn’t locked tight.
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Computer Studies Made Cool, on Film and Now on Campus
When Keila Fong arrived at Yale, she had never given much thought to computer science. But then last year everyone on campus started talking about the film "The...
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We've Bin Watching You!
With Bincam, Newcastle University computer scientists have used a camera phone and Facebook to introduce an element of competition to recycling and minimizing waste...
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Dawn Captures Video on Approach to Asteroid Vesta
Scientists working with NASA's Dawn spacecraft have created a new video showing the giant asteroid Vesta as the spacecraft approaches this unexplored world in...
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Future of Virtual Reality: What Pregnancy Feels Like
Men can gain a better understanding of what women experience during pregnancy by wearing a new device developed at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology...
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.s. nderwrites Internet Detour Around Censors
The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy "shadow" Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments...
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Why There's No Nobel Prize in Computing
When Nobel Prizes are dished out each fall, the most accomplished professionals in computing, telecom, and IT have usually been left out in the cold. That's...
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Army Seeks Social Media Gurus to Save Afghan War
Know how to Tweet? Or how to put words into the mouths of foreign security functionaries? If so, the U.S. Army wants you to help un-quagmire the Afghanistan war...
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Tracking Down Twitter's Best Rumor Spreaders
Sometimes it's easy to know which messages will spread through Twitter like wildfire. Just ask Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-New York), who faces pressure to resign...
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Next Mars Rover Faces Race Against Time, Funding
NASA's next Mars rover faces looming technical, financial, and scheduling challenges before its planned launch in November, according to an internal audit released...
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After Delay, Hacker to Show Flaws in Siemens Industrial Gear
A security researcher who says he's found serious problems with Siemens computers used in power plants and heavy industry is now expecting to go public with his...
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Scientists Undeterred By Hubble Successor's Costs
The successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is facing cost overruns and years of delay before it launches, but that hasn't dampened the enthusiasm of scientists...
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Internet Architect Vint Cerf to Young People: Science and Tech Careers Can Be Rewarding
Vint Cerf, one of the Internet's original inventors, notes in an interview that although industry awards are important, they do not receive enough visibility.
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Building a Better Dam Map
A geographically explicit, high-resolution global database of large dams and reservoirs has been developed by a team of scientists at McGill University.
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