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Social Search, Without a Social Network
Google may be built on an algorithm for taming the Web, but yesterday the company added social features that will let your friends help determine what ranks high...
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Taking Control of Cars From Afar
Researchers who have spent the last two years studying the security of car computer systems have revealed that they can take control of vehicles wirelessly.
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Spotting Virtual Intruders
Handing sensitive data over to a cloud computing provider makes many companies skittish. But new software, called HomeAlone, could help them come to terms with...
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Tracking Trick Shows the Web Where You Are
A new technique from Microsoft Research Silicon Valley could be used to target advertising to users' surroundings without their knowledge.
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Watch Where You're Going
Businesses are quietly buying mobile-phone data to discover the paths that consumers take.
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Anticensorship Tool Proves Too Good to Be True
Experts warn that the software could identify those it claims to protect.
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A Sidewalk Disappearing Act
Automatically removing people from street-level imagery could help prevent privacy complaints.
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Wireless Car Sensors Vulnerable to Hackers
Hackers could "hijack" the wireless pressure sensors built into many cars' tires, researchers have found. Criminals might then track a vehicle or force its electronic...
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Connecting Electronic Medical Records
Looking out his office window in Seattle, Thomas Payne can see two hospitals that use the same electronic record system as his own. And yet, says Payne, medical...
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The Hunt For the Wikileaks Whistle-Blower
Attorney General Eric Holder's new probe into Wikileaks's posting of 91,000 war documents will likely find that tracing the path of the documents back through the...
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Ads that Match a Web Page's Images
Using the contents of images or videos to target Web ads could improve click-through.
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Wireless Companies Could se Your Friends
Each time you make a cellphone call, your network provider knows whom you're calling, for how long, and what device you're using. Now researchers at one of the...
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Fewer Ads, More Clicks
Search engines get smarter at predicting when we'll respond to a pitch.
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New Cyber Chief Outlines Strategy
Security experts said this week that they were cheered by calls from General Keith Alexander, head of the new U.S. Cyber Command, for global rules of engagement...
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Google Gives Away Video Software to Lure Developers
Google recently gave away a piece of intellectual property the company gained after its $120 million acquisition of On2 three months ago.
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Mobile Data: A Gold Mine For Telcos
Cell phone companies are finding that they're sitting on a gold mine--in the form of the call records of their subscribers.
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Can the Kremlin's Silicon Valley Succeed?
Russia has chosen a site and is finalizing plans to start a Silicon Valley-like innovation center near Moscow.
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Combing Medical Records For Research
When the stimulus bill passed last year--allocating $20 billion to help doctors and hospitals adopt electronic medical records (EMRs)--many scientists were excited...
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Fingertip Bacteria: A Promising Forensic Tool
It's not just our genomes that make us unique. The genomic profile of bacteria that rub off our fingertips and onto objects we touch--a computer keyboard, for instance...
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