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Drug Agents se Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.s.a.'s
For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that...
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A Robot to Beat Humans at Foosball
Students from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have developed a foosball-playing robot. The machine uses one computer to control the movement...
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The Insane and Exciting Future of the Bionic Body
Bertolt Meyer pulls off his left forearm and gives it to me.
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How 'cell Tower Dumps' Caught the High Country Bandit—and Why It Matters
On February 18, 2010, the FBI field office in Denver issued a "wanted" notice for two men known as "the High Country Bandits"—a rather grandiose name for a pair...
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DARPA Creates Cloud sing Smartphones
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is testing new software-based approaches for creating cloud-like computing networks using smartphones...
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Strands Project Develops Robot Security Guards
The European Union's Seventh Framework Program is funding the Strands project, which is developing software for robot brains that can be used as security guards...
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.s. Appetite For Internet ser Data Not nique
Despite recent concerns about information collection by the United States, law enforcement agencies in Europe and other nations appear to gather equal or greater...
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Adept Emphasizes Energy-Efficient Parallelism
The European Union-funded ADEPT project is exploring the energy-efficient use of parallel technologies. ADEPT aims to help high-performance computing software...
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Vending Machines Get Smart to Accommodate the Cashless
More than 40 percent of U.S. adults say they can go a week without paying for something with cash, according to a survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports last year...
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Inside the Response to the New York Times Attack
Late Tuesday morning, one of the engineers in CloudFlare's San Francisco office saw a message on Twitter saying that the New York Times Web site was down. Minutes...
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The Proof in the Quantum Pudding
In early May, news reports gushed that a quantum computation device had for the first time outperformed classical computers, solving certain problems thousands...
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A Camera That Sees Like the Human Eye
The retina is an enormously powerful tool. It sorts through massive amounts of data while operating on only a fraction of the power that a conventional digital...
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Scientist Creates Solution For Looming Broadband Shortage
A new method to solve the approaching broadcast spectrum deficit examines how cell networks could optimize spectrum use.
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'zero Knowledge' May Answer Computer Security Question
A new protocol for the creation of a "zero-knowledge proof" involves answering questions that depend on having a secret bit of knowledge.
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How Syrian Hackers Found the New York Times's Australian Weak Spot
A hacking attack launched by the Syrian Electronic Army may have targeted the New York Timesand other U.S. media companies, but the weak link was Melbourne IT (...
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New Tool Enhances the Search For Genetic Mutations
New software uses statistical probabilities to help identify mutations and more accurately pinpoint their source and their possible significance for health.
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Html5 Now Neck and Neck With Native Apps For Developer Love
More developers will trade a superior native experience for the lower cost of maintaining a common code base using HTML5 code in a native app container.
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Think You Can Drive a Bulldozer?
As he closed the door, leaving me alone at the controls of a 41,000-pound bulldozer with list price of nearly $432,000, a Komatsu Ltd. executive shouted, "No worries...
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Here's How One Hacker Is Waging War on the Syrian Government
As President Obama weighed U.S. air strikes in Syria this week, a lone American hacker was waging his own attack on the Syrian government.
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