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Why Computer Voices Are Mostly Female
To most owners of the new iPhone, the voice-activated feature called Siri is more than a virtual "assistant" who can help schedule appointments, find a good nearby...
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How Many Pages Are on the Internet?
It seems like an answerable question, right? But no one really knows how many Websites or individual Web pages make up this seemingly infinite digital universe...
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How 9/11 Inspired a New Era of Robotics
When Robin Murphy saw the World Trade Center towers fall on September 11, she knew of an unexpected group that could help respond: robots.
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Meet Dark Tangent, the Hacker Behind Black Hat and Def Con
The word "hacker" evokes all kinds of scary images. But Jeff Moss says hackers are exactly what the world needs more of, because they can make the Internet safer...
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Phone Hacking Can Extend Beyond Voice Mail
While the phone hacking by British tabloid News of the World was unexceptional by technical standards, security experts say the scandal portends how the growth...
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Cell Phone Users Are Talking Less
Call Kimberly Brown a smartphone junkie if you want. "I'm sure everyone around me will say I'm most definitely addicted," said Brown, an archaeologist at The...
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Why Gadget Makers Wield a 'Kill Switch'
When you buy a video game from Best Buy, you don't give the retailer the right to barge into your house whenever it wants. So why do we give that permission to...
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Online Photos: Are They New Digital Fingerprints?
For Mike Smith, Facebook is a fort for communicating freely with friends online. Within the confines of that giant yet access-restricted network, the music-software...
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California High Court: Retailers Can't Request Cardholders' Zip Code
California's high court ruled Thursday that retailers don't have the right to ask customers for their ZIP code while completing credit card transactions, saying...
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Google, Twitter Help Give Voice to Egyptians
Google has launched the latest salvo in an effort to overcome internet blackouts in Egypt during anti-government protests there.
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The End of Credit Cards Is Coming
Credit cards may soon be as outdated as vinyl records. (Remember them?) And this is the year that the slow, steady march to oblivion begins.
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10 Ways a Digital Big Brother Can Be Good For You
The opening passage from George Orwell's "1984" depicts a guy hustling up a stairwell that's plastered with giant posters of a man's face staring at him.
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Court Allows Agents to Secretly Put GPS Trackers on Cars
Law enforcement officers may secretly place a GPS device on a person's car without seeking a warrant from a judge, according to a recent federal appeals court...
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Is This the 'Safest Bridge in America?'
Just about everyone who worked to build the new Interstate Highway 35W bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, knew that their project would never be "just a bridge."
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The Technical Muscle Behind Wikileaks
WikiLeaks isn't much to look at. The Website's homepage is largely composed of a plain-text logo and a giant hyperlink that simply says: "Submit documents."
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We're Running Out of Internet Addresses
Don't panic, but we're running out of internet addresses. Not domain names—those Website names that you see at the top of this page and which always start with...
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Inventor of Cell Phone: We Knew Someday Everybody Would Have One
In 1973, Martin Cooper changed the world, although he didn't know it yet.
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Why Face Recognition Isn't Scary
Most of the time, Stacey Schlittenhard finds facial recognition technology to be extremely useful. When she uploads her family photos to the Website Picasa, for...
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The Website That Reveals State Secrets
If Daniel Ellsberg wanted to leak secret documents today, he probably would send them to a powerful and controversial new venue for whistle-blowing: a Website called...
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