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Crackdown Successfully Reduces Spam
Two Google security researchers report that a pair of authentication standards designed to help combat spam and phishing attacks are being widely adopted.
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Wave Fingers, Make Faces: The Future of Computing at Intel
Intel's perceptual computing technology incorporates gestures, facial recognition, and voice recognition to make devices more "natural, intuitive, and immersive...
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Imagine Your Face As Your Future Iphone Password
You may one day be able to unlock your iPhone based just on your good looks.
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Remembering Legendary Enigma Code Breaker Mavis Batey
Cracking one of the most complicated cipher devices ever created—the Enigma machine—may not have been what Britain's Mavis Batey envisioned when she studied the...
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Intelligence Chief Clapper Cites 'casablanca' in Dismissing Merkel Mess
You must remember this: A kiss is just a kiss, a spy is just a spy.
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How IBM Is Making Computers More Like Your Brain. For Real
Despite a strong philosophical connection, computers and brains inhabit separate realms in research.
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Baseball's Beacon Trials Hint at Apple's Location Revolution
As we neared the threshold of the gates in front of the walkway to the home of the New York Mets, a message popped up on developer Chad Evans' space-gray iPhone...
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Privacy Entrepreneur Turns Nsa Snooping Into Profit (q&a)
In a double dose of irony, the National Security Agency's prying has given a big helping hand to Phil Zimmermann's business, Silent Circle.
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Apple's A7 Chip Makes a Run at Intel
Is Apple simply engaging in PR puffery when it talks about its "desktop" A7 chip? Not so fast.
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Behold! Jonathan Ive's Apple
Apple is today releasing the much-anticipated iOS 7, and with it, the biggest overhaul of its mobile operating system since it debuted in 2007 with the original...
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The Real Reasons Apple's 64-Bit A7 Chip Makes Sense
Apple injected a lot of marketing hyperbole into its claims about the wonders of 64-bit computing when it showed off the A7 processor at the heart of the new ...
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Nsa Claims It 'touches' Only 1.6 Percent of Internet Traffic
Just hours after President Obama defended the National Security Agency's activities, the foreign surveillance agency released a document in which it claims to review...
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Silent Circle Follows Lavabit in Shuttering Encrypted Email
Silent Circle shuttered its encrypted email service on Thursday, the second such closure in just a few hours in an apparent attempt to avoid government scrutiny...
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Google Boosts Handwriting Feature in Google Translate
With Google Translate's new handwriting tool, users can draw an unfamiliar word or character on their Android smartphone or tablet and get a translation.
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How the .s. Forces Net Firms to Cooperate on Surveillance
By wielding a potent legal threat, the U.S. government is often able to force Internet companies to aid its surveillance demands.
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Here Come the Arabic, Russian, and Chinese Net Addresses
ICANN, the organization in charge of a major overhaul of Internet addresses, said it has signed agreements that will bring Chinese, Russian, and Arabic domain names...
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Nvidia's Graphics Brawn Powers Supercomputing Brains
Nvidia, trying to move its graphics chips into the supercomputing market, has found a niche helping engineers build brain-like systems called neural networks.
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Fast Fiber: Apps Coming at 70 Percent the Speed of Light
The speed of data transfer will rise dramatically as Gigabit Ethernet grows increasingly available.
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