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Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell
Like dozens of other brick-and-mortar retailers,Nordstrom wanted to learn more about its customers—how many came through the doors, how many were repeat visitors—the...
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Computational Photography: The Snap Is Only the Start
Imagine a camera that allows you to see through a crowd to get a clear view of someone who would otherwise be obscured, a smartphone that matches big-budget lenses...
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Researchers Find Bug Bounty Programs Pay Economic Rewards
Bug bounty programs can be as much as 100 times more cost-effective for finding security vulnerabilities than hiring full-time security researchers to do the same...
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5d Optical Memory in Nanostructured Quartz Glass Could Lead to nlimited Lifetime Data Storage
Researchers have experimentally demonstrated the recording and retrieval process of five-dimensional digital data in nanostructured glass by femtosecond laser writing...
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Touchscreens 'a Small Step' in Innovation
The way we use digital devices has become big news.
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Nasa's Opals to Beam Data From Space Via Laser
NASA will use the International Space Station to test a new communications technology that could dramatically improve spacspacecraft communications, enhance commercial...
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Kremlin Returns to Typewriters to Avoid Computer Leaks
A source at Russia's Federal Guard Service, which is in charge of safeguarding Kremlin communications and protecting President Vladimir Putin, claimed that the...
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The Manning Trial Grapples with the Question of Whether Wikileaks Is a Media Entity
Defense arguments in the trial of former Army private Bradley Manning—who stands accused of a number of crimes for handing over classified documents to WikiLeaks...
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In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal
Q. How is Big Data being used more in the leadership and management field?
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Touch Screens Are Tested For Piloting Passenger Jets
As Denis Bonnet slipped into the right-hand seat of a commercial jet demonstrator in the airliner cockpit design center here at Thales, the French electronics group...
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Unmasking Organized Crime Networks with Data
One of the big challenges in fighting organized crime is precisely that it is organized. It is run a bit like a business, with chains of command and responsibility...
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Science Team Outlines Goals for NASA's 2020 Mars Rover
The rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 should look for signs of past life, collect samples for possible future return to Earth, and demonstrate technology for...
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Internet Inventor: No Technological Cure For Privacy Ills
Is there technological solution for protecting people from online surveillance?
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What Your Metadata Says About You
As recently as a few weeks ago, "metadata" was an obscure term known mainly to techies and academics.
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This Is the Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds
There was a time when Melody Meckfessel juggled two wardrobes: one for one Google, and one for the rest of her life.
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Future Cops: How Technology Is Set to Change Policing
The sci-fi vision of police officers rushing to the scene of a crime before any crime has even been committed may be rather far-fetched but technology is increasingly...
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Big Data Spells Trouble For Consumer Privacy
Matt Valentine, head of Microsoft's enterprise solutions for Hong Kong, shares a key piece of advice with his five- and seven-year-old children: when it comes to...
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How Nasa Steers the International Space Station Around Space Junk
Orbiting about 250 miles (400-ish km) above our heads is one of the most complex and expensive engineering projects that the human race has ever put together: the...
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Why the Airline Industry Needs Another Data Revolution
Over the years, airline travel has been a prime testbed for advanced computing and data tools.
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