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A Revamping of Bing in the Battle For Search Engine Supremacy
When Facebook goes public in the coming weeks, there will be a lot of winners. Among them is one of the stalwarts of the tech industry, Microsoft, which has a small...
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How to Muddy Your Tracks on the Internet
Legal and technology researchers estimate that it would take about a month for Internet users to read the privacy policies of all the Web sites they visit in a...
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The State of Mobile: Less Talking, Fewer Texts, More Data
People generally talk less on the phone and send fewer text messages now because there are so many ways to communicate over an Internet connection. Though this...
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Data Engineer in Google Case Is Identified
At the center of the uproar over a Google project that scooped up personal data from potentially millions of unsuspecting people is the company software engineer...
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California Chosen as Home for Computing Institute
The Simons Foundation, which specializes in science and math research, has chosen the University of California, Berkeley, as host for an ambitious new center for...
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Smartphone Patent Wars: The Coming Sequel
Billions of dollars are being spent to amass patent arsenals, and lawsuits are flying worldwide.
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Tomorrow's Privacy Struggles, On Display Today
The thorny privacy issues of tomorrow were on display Thursday morning, when AT&T showed off a batch of technologies under development at AT&T Labs, the company’s...
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Iraq Emerges From Isolation as Telecommunications Hub
Iraq, cut off from decades of technological progress because of dictatorship, sanctions and wars, recently took a big step out of isolation and into the digital...
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Seeking Robots to Go Where First Responders Can't
In the event of another disaster at a nuclear power plant, the first responders may not be humans but robots.
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A Little Device That's Trying to Read Your Thoughts
Already surrounded by machines that allow him, painstakingly, to communicate, the physicist Stephen Hawking last summer donned what looked like a rakish black headband...
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Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses
If you venture into a coffee shop in the coming months and see someone with a pair of futuristic glasses that look like a prop from "Star Trek," don’t worry.
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Giving Women the Access Code
When Maria Klawe became president of Harvey Mudd College in 2006, she was dismayed— but not surprised—at how few women were majoring in computer science.
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Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool
Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials...
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Genius and Tragedy at Dawn of Computer Age
One of the many myths about Apple is that the company's name is a reference to the half-eaten apple reportedly found beside the corpse of the British computer scientist...
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Just the Facts. Yes, All of Them.
AT 7 years old, Gilad Elbaz wrote, "I want to be a rich mathematician and very smart." That, he figured, would help him "discover things like time machines, robots...
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