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After M.t.a. Setbacks, No-Swipe Fare Cards Are Still Stuck in the Future
For nearly 50 years, coins were the currency in New York’s subway and bus system. Tokens carried the next 40 years, until the MetroCard first slid into riders’...
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The Next Frontier Is Inside Your Brain
The Obama administration is planning a multiyear research effort to produce an "activity map" that would show in unprecedented detail the workings of the human,...
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Nielsen Adjusts Its Ratings to Add Web-Linked Tvs
For media executives, there may be nothing worse than a viewer or listener who is not counted.
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Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.s.
On the outskirts of Shanghai, in a run-down neighborhood dominated by a 12-story white office tower, sits a People's Liberation Army base for China’s growing corps...
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Obama Order Gives Firms Cyberthreat Information
President Obama signed an executive order on Tuesday that promotes increased information sharing about cyberthreats between the government and private companies...
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Rat-Size Ancestor Said to Link Man and Beast
Humankind's common ancestor with other mammals may have been a roughly rat-size animal that weighed no more than a half a pound, had a long furry tail and lived...
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A Tiny Computer Attracts a Million Tinkerers
Raspberry Pi may sound like the name of a math-based dessert. But it is actually one of the hottest and cheapest little computers in the world right now.
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Broad Powers Seen For Obama in Cyberstrikes
A secret legal review on the use of America's growing arsenal of cyberweapons has concluded that President Obama has the broad power to order a pre-emptive strike...
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Once Blackberry Focused, a Campus Widens Its View
The University of Waterloo, in a city that people outside Canada would struggle to find on a map, is one of the world’s best technology schools.
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Hackers in China Attacked The Times For Last 4 Months
For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters...
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A Digital Paradise By the Dashboard Light
The driver of the first Corvette, in 1953, was welcomed by a lovely fan of numbers—a sweeping, eye-catching speedometer denominated in 10-mile-per-hour intervals...
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Two Science Projects to Receive Award of 1 Billion Euros
Projects to imitate the brain and to develop new materials for information technology have won awards of about 1 billion euros (U.S. $1.34 billion) each were announced...
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Facebook's Other Big Disruption
Facebook made a potentially game-changing announcement.
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Drivers With Hands Full Get a Backup: The Car
Car makers increasingly are adopting technologies for use in autonomous vehicles that take advantage of the array of optical and radar sensors in new cars. The...
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Their Apps Track You. Will Congress Track Them?
There are three things that matter in consumer data collection: location, location, location.
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Mobile Apps Drive Rapid Change in Searches
When the Federal Trade Commission decided last week to close its antitrust investigation of Google without charges, one important factor, though hardly mentioned...
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All the World's a Game, and Business Is a Player
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Communications Satellites Made Legal For Export
To the delight of American satellite makers, communications satellites—which orbit Earth to relay phone calls, link ships to shore and broadcast television programs—will...
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Outmaneuvered at Their Own Game, Antivirus Makers Struggle to Adapt
The antivirus industry has a dirty little secret: its products are often not very good at stopping viruses.
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