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The Cookies You Can't Crumble
If you've used the Internet for longer than the iPhone has been around, you're probably familiar with cookies, those little packets of personal data that help load...
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For Sale: Systems That Can Secretly Track Where Cellphone sers Go Around the Globe
Privately owned surveillance companies are offering systems capable of tracking the location of any cellphone user to governments around the globe.
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Hacking Traffic Lights With a Laptop Is Easy
Security researchers with permission from local road authorities hacked into nearly 100 wirelessly networked traffic lights and were able to change the lights on...
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China Targets Own Operating System to Take on Likes of Microsoft, Google
China could have a new homegrown operating system by October to take on imported rivals such as Microsoft Corp, Google Inc and Apple Inc, Xinhua news agency said...
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Queen Pardons Gay Codebreaker Alan Turing
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II this week granted a Royal pardon for internationally acclaimed British codebreaker and computer scientist Alan Turing, who took his...
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A Chinese Internet Giant Starts to Dream
Punk bands from Blondie to the Ramones once played in Broadway Studios, an age-worn 95-year-old neoclassical building surrounded by strip clubs in San Francisco’s...
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Is Emailing Your Brainwaves the Future of Communication?
Here's something you probably didn't expect in your inbox: Researchers have now developed a way to email brainwaves.
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Tor Project's Struggle to Keep the Dark Net in the Shadows
The BBC has interviewed Andrew Lewman, executive director of the Tor Project.
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Anatomy of an Air Strike: Three Intelligence Streams Working in Concert
In a fast-moving war with an elusive foe like the Islamic State militants, information is as important as guns, jet fighters and bombs.
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Google's Fact-Checking Bots Build Vast Knowledge Bank
Google is building the largest store of knowledge in human history—and it's doing so without any human help.
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Listening In: The Navy Is Tracking Ocean Sounds Collected By Scientists
In a retired shore station for transpacific communications cables on the western coast of Vancouver Island sits a military computer in a padlocked cage.
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Vexed in the City: Starved For Tech Talent and Yet Nobody to Hire?
Darin Wedel made headlines in 2012 when his wife, Jennifer, asked President Barack Obama during a Google+ Hangout why her husband was still out of work while H-1B...
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New Era in Safety When Cars Talk to One Another
A driver moves along in traffic, the forward view blocked by a truck or a bend in the road. Suddenly, up ahead, someone slams on the brake. Tires screech.
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Technology Can Make Lawful Surveillance Both Open and Effective
New technology could enable law enforcement to identify people whose actions justify investigation and demonstrate probable cause via an authorized electronic...
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Cryptography Expert Says, 'pgp Encryption Is Fundamentally Broken, Time For Pgp to Die'
A Senior cryptography expert has claimed multiple issues with PGP email encryption—an open source end-to-end encryption to secure email.
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Why Teaching Grandmothers to Code Isn't a Crazy Idea
The same efforts to teach youngsters coding and entrepreneurship should be extended to older workers and retired people, writes Stanford University fellow Vivek...
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New Algorithm Gives Credit Where Credit Is Due
A new algorithm could help determine how to properly allocate credit for science papers that have multiple authors.
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Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg on Tech's Diversity Gap
In an interview, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg says it is crucial for the technology industry to become more diverse.
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Vast Majority of Hackers Believe They're Above the Law—survey
When most hackers are infiltrating computer systems, the last thing on their mind is getting caught, according to new data.
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