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A Synthetic Biology Conference Lures an Intriguing Audience
When does a scientific conference warrant the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security?
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Your Digital Trail Follows You to the Border
Information, money and jobs flow easily around the world, yet it’s getting tougher for travelers to cross some borders.
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Devices That Know How We Really Feel
Admit it: Sometimes you just want to punch your PC, or slap your smartphone, or knock your notebook.
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Friends, and Influence, for Sale Online
Whoever said, "Money can't buy you friends," clearly hasn’t been on the Internet recently.
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Justices Appear Divided on Cellphone Warrants
The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed torn as it considered a pair of cases about whether the police need warrants to search the cellphones of people they arrest.
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Few Consumers Are Buying Premise of Mobile Wallets
Millions of Americans use smartphones for tasks like hailing a taxi or checking in for a flight. But for buying something in a store?
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Snowden Retained Expert in Espionage Act Defense
Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who provided journalists a trove of classified documents, retained a well-known Washington defense...
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Conjuring Images of a Bionic Future
Dick Loizeaux recently found himself meandering through a noisy New York nightclub.
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p Close on Baseball's Borders
Steve Rushin of Sports Illustrated has called the line running through Connecticut that separates Yankee fans and Red Sox fans the Munson-Nixon line.
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Americans Predict a Future Like Science Fiction
Given the fast-paced changes that happen in technology, predicting the future has become more fun than guessing who will win the Super Bowl or "Dancing With the...
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The Cloud Industry Needs Aereo to Win. But Consumers Need Something Better.
The best way to think about Aereo, the company at the center of this week's Supreme Court battle over the future of computing, is as an example of legal performance...
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Russia Displays a New Military Prowess in kraine's East
Secretary of State John Kerry has accused Russia of behaving in a "19th-century fashion" because of its annexation of Crimea.
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U.s. Promotes Network to Foil Digital Spying
A group of academics and computer enthusiasts have used the Tunisian town of Sayada as a test site for a local network that is physically independent from the Internet...
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Mit's Alex Pentland: Measuring Idea Flows to Accelerate Innovation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology computational social scientist Alex Pentland's research has lately focused on social physics.
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Bend It, Charge It, Dunk It: Graphene, the Material of Tomorrow
I just want to say one word to you. Just one word.
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Hackers Lurking in Vents and Soda Machines
Hackers are exploiting overlooked vulnerabilities in third-party access points ranging from online restaurant menus to soda machines to heating and cooling systems...
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Hackers Lurking in Vents and Soda Machines
They came in through the Chinese takeout menu.
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If You Like Immersion, You'll Love This Reality
The news that Facebook paid $2 billion for a virtual reality start-up, Oculus VR, might strike you as a bit zany.
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Search For Lost Jet Is Complicated By Geopolitics and Rivalries
The frantic hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been, in one way, a nearly miraculous display of international collaboration: 26 nations, many of them rivals...
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