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Beyond Passwords: New Tools to Identify Humans
As everything around us becomes connected to the Internet, from cars to thermometers to the stuff inside our mobile phones, technologists are confronting a tough...
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Nsa Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web
The National Security Agency uses a variety of means to overcome encryption technologies, such as supercomputers, technical strategies, court orders, and persuasion...
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Scientists Expand Scale of Digital Snooping Alert
Researchers at Toshiba's European research laboratory in Cambridge, England, have released a paper describing a way to enable a group of users to exchange encryption...
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Mystery of the Missing Women in Science
Although test scores prove that girls have science and math aptitude equal to that of boys, many girls choose not to pursue these fields.
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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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How Surveillance Changes Behavior: A Restaurant Workers Case Study
Surveillance is certainly much in the news lately. Most notably, of course, there is the continuing outcry over the National Security Agency’s call-tracking program...
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As Tennis Stats Proliferate, Software Tries to Make Sense of It All
SlamTracker software sifts through 20 years of data to predict how tennis players could perform under various circumstances.
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The Pentagon as Silicon Valley's Incubator
In the ranks of technology incubator programs, there is AngelPad here in San Francisco and Y Combinator about 40 miles south in Mountain View. And then there is...
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In Markets' Tuned-p Machinery, Stubborn Ghosts Remain
A generation ago, when the stock market crashed on Oct. 19, 1987, the Nasdaq stock market appeared to have done much better than the New York Stock Exchange.
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How Pay-Per-Gaze Advertising Could Work With Google Glass
Google wants to see what you see. And then, of course, make money from those images.
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Facial Scanning Is Making Gains in Surveillance
The U.S. government's development of a facial recognition surveillance system to identify individuals in crowds is moving ahead.
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When You Can't Tell Web Suffixes Without a Scorecard
On the Web, there's no place like .home.
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Master's Degree Is New Frontier of Study Online
Next January, the Georgia Institute of Technology plans to offer a master’s degree in computer science through massive open online courses for a fraction of the...
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An Inventor Wants One Less Wire to Worry About
Sometimes, there is an actual eureka moment.
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How to Share Scientific Data
Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth catalog and a Silicon Valley muse, once said that information wanted to be free and expensive, simultaneously. That...
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As New Targets For Hackers, Your Car and Your House
Imagine driving on the freeway at 60 miles per hour and your car suddenly screeches to a halt, causing a pileup that injures dozens of people.
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Searching Big Data For 'digital Smoke Signals'
Development and aid programs are embracing the emerging field known as big data for development.
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N.s.a. Said to Search Content of Messages to and From U.s.
The National Security Agency is searching the contents of vast amounts of Americans' email and text communications into and out of the country, hunting for people...
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