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Screen Time Higher Than Ever for Children
Jaden Lender, 3, sings along softly with the "Five Little Monkeys" app on the family iPad, and waggles his index finger along with the monkey doctor at the warning...
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A Silicon Valley School That Doesn't Compute
The chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to a nine-classroom school here. So do employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo, and...
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How Revolutionary Tools Cracked a 1700s Code
It has been more than six decades since Warren Weaver, a pioneer in automated language translation, suggested applying code-breaking techniques to the challenge...
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Jobs Tried Exotic Treatments to Combat Cancer, Book Says
In his last years, Steven P. Jobs veered from exotic diets to cutting-edge treatments as he fought the cancer that ultimately took his life, according to a new...
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Two Top Suitors Are Emerging for New Graduate School of Engineering
With less than two weeks left to apply in the competition for $400 million in land and subsidies to build a science and engineering graduate school in New York...
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New Malicious Program by Creators of Stuxnet Is Suspected
The designers of Stuxnet, the computer worm that was used to vandalize an Iranian nuclear site, may have struck again, security researchers say.
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.s. Debated Cyberwarfare in Attack Plan on Libya
Just before the American-led strikes against Libya in March, the Obama administration intensely debated whether to open the mission with a new kind of warfare...
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Clamping Down on High-Speed Stock Trades
Regulators in the United States and overseas are cracking down on computerized high-speed trading that crowds today’s stock exchanges, worried that as it spreads...
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Steve Jobs's Patents
The 317 Apple patents that list Steven P. Jobs among the group of inventors offer a glimpse at his legendary say over the minute details of the company's products—from...
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Government Aims to Build a 'Data Eye in the Sky'
More than 60 years ago, in his "Foundation" series, the science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov invented a new science—psychohistory—that combined mathematics and...
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In Supercomputing, a Turn to Energy-Saving Graphics Chips
In computing, as in so many fields, the best path to progress is often not a straight line.
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Coming Soon: The Drone Arms Race
At the Zhuhai air show in southeastern China last November, Chinese companies startled some Americans by unveiling 25 different models of remotely controlled aircraft...
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White House Orders New Computer Security Rules
The White House plans to issue an executive order on Friday to replace a flawed patchwork of computer security safeguards exposed by the disclosure of hundreds...
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Steve Jobs, Apple's Visionary, Dies at 56
Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies...
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Before Latest Phone Debut, Apple Has Harsher Competition
As soon as Apple unveils its highly anticipated new version of the iPhone on Tuesday, millions of people are likely to start plotting how to be among the first...
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Dealing With an Identity Hijacked on the Online Highway
Despite his prominent position as a Republican candidate for president, Rick Santorum has lost control of his online identity. And for all the snickering online...
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Setting Boundaries For Internet Privacy
Watchful European privacy regulators are wielding increasing influence beyond the Continent’s borders.
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Call It Your Online Driver's License
The White House's National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace encourages the private-sector creation and public adoption of online user authentication...
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The Last Days of the Old Parking Meter
Motorists' bane, magnet for thieves, and memorialized in the Beatles' "Lovely Rita," the diminutive parking meter has led an outsize life. But its days in New...
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