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When Social Media Mining Gets It Wrong
A complex picture of your personal life can now be pieced together using a variety of public data sources, and increasingly sophisticated data-mining techniques...
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David Cameron Considers Banning Suspected Rioters from Social Media
David Cameron has told parliament that in the wake of this week's riots the government is looking at banning people from using social networking sites, such as...
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Why Rioters Won't Be Protected by BlackBerry Messaging System
Those involved in the recent rioting and looting in Britain are unlikely to have their identities protected by the BlackBerry Messenger service, contrary to reports...
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Self-Assembling Minirobots Swim and Manipulate Objects
Tiny, self-assembling robots can swim and clamp onto particles and then release them when subjected to the right magnetic fields.
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Futurist Ray Kurzweil Says He Can Bring His Dead Father Back to Life Through a Computer Avatar
Ray Kurzweil, a prominent inventor and "futurist" who has long predicted that mind and machine will one day merge, has been making arrangements to talk to his...
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Future of War: Private Robot Armies Fight It Out
If robots are simply computers with wings (and missiles), then expect to see future wars fought by the descendants of flash-trading algorithms, with humans as...
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Mobile Computing Giants in Patent Free-For-All
The mobile computing boom has turned into a courthouse war of the titans, as big tech companies are increasingly engaged in high-dollar legal disputes over lucrative...
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NASA Mars Rover Arrives at New Site on Martian Surface
After a journey of almost three years, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the Red Planet’s Endeavour crater to study rocks never seen before...
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Ieee to Create Anti-Malware 'packer' Validation System
The IEEE has launched a system for tracing the output of all certified binary packers to verify which license was used to create an executable file.
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Police to Track Rioters Who Used Blackberrys
Police investigating those responsible for the London riots will be able to track down and arrest them based on their BlackBerry Messenger communication with...
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Defcon Opens Its Doors to Pre-Teen and Teen Hackers
DefCon, the conference where hackers and the people who monitor them get together to trade the latest in hacking and tracking data, had some new attendees: children...
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Mobilizing Help for People Accused of Hacking
When Senator Joseph R. McCarthy held hearings in the 1950s to question witnesses about their supposed ties to communism, critics accused him of fomenting a Red...
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Network Effects: Social Media's Role in the London Riots
Facebook and Twitter can fuel uprisings by allowing participants to coordinate action and to see themselves as part of a larger movement.
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Blue Waters pdate
Effective August 6, 2011, IBM terminated its contract with the University of Illinois to provide the supercomputer for the National Center for Supercomputing...
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Web Tracking Has Become a Privacy Time Bomb
For more than a decade, tracking systems have been taking note of where you go and what you search for on the Web—without your permission. Today many of the personal...
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Black Hat: Legal Pitfalls of Investigating Mobile
Hackers today are testing mobile devices ever more strenuously, but the work often stands on shaky legal ground, according to Jennifer Granick, an attorney for...
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Building Robots that Understand Human Emotions and Make People Healthier
For most of us, the closest we get to a robot in daily life is a Roomba. But Dr. Cynthia Breazeal, director of the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab...
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Nasa Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing on Mars
Observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars.
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Your Smartphone: A New Frontier For Hackers
Last week, security researchers uncovered yet another strain of malicious software aimed at smartphones that run Google's popular Android operating system. The...
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