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Radio Chip For the "internet of Things"
A new wireless transmitter design reduces off-state leakage 100-fold while providing adequate power for Bluetooth or 802.15.4 transmissions.
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Spies Can Track You Just By Watching Your Phone's Power se
A new paper from a team of researchers found it is possible to determine an Android phone's location and movement by monitoring and analyzing its power consumption...
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Secrets Become History: Edward Snowden in Citizenfour Wins Documentary Oscar
Citizenfour is filmmaker Laura Poitras' account of the first meetings between herself, Glenn Greenwald, and Edward Snowden.
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What 'the Imitation Game' Didn't Tell You About Turing's Greatest Triumph
Freeman Dyson, 91, the famed physicist, author and oracle of human destiny, is holding forth after tea-time one February afternoon in the common room of the Institute...
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Beijing Subway Swipe Data Betrays Social Class
Beijing is an enormous city, sprawling over an area 10 times larger than Greater London.
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Spies Can Track You Just By Watching Your Phone's Power se
Smartphone users might balk at letting a random app like Candy Crush or Shazam track their every move via GPS. But researchers have found that Android phones reveal...
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Researchers Generate a Reference Map of the Human Epigenome
The sequencing of the human genome laid the foundation for the study of genetic variation and its links to a wide range of diseases. But the genome itself is only...
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Is Your Toaster a Silent Recruit in a 'thingbot' Army?
All kinds of gadgets, from toasters to sprinklers, fridges to domestic heating systems, are now boasting sensors, actuators and low-powered embedded chips.
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How a Wedding Engagement Changes Twitter Feeds
A Georgia Institute of Technology researcher has studied engagement on social media, focusing on the phases people experience as they transition from singles to...
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Patterns in Large Data Show How Information Travels
Umea University researchers have found an analysis of how people edit content on Wikipedia can reveal what matters to them and with whom they have most in common...
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The Great Sim Heist
American and British spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect...
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Magic Leap
Logically, I know there isn’t a hulking four-armed, twisty-horned blue monster clomping in circles in front of me, but it sure as hell looks like it.
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The Hot Yet Little-Known Trend That'll Supercharge AI
When Andrew Ng trained Google's army of computers to identify cat videos using artificial intelligence, he hit a few snags.
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Hacking the Hill
A growing number of organizations think technology holds the potential to improve the efficiency of government.
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How Hackers Could Attack Hard Drives to Create a Pervasive Backdoor
News that a hacking group within or associated with the National Security Agency compromised the firmware of hard drive controllers from a number of manufacturers...
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Physics in Finance: Trading at the Speed of Light
Financial traders are in a race to make transactions ever faster.
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Bigger Steps: Berkeley Lab Researchers Develop Algorithm to Make Simulation of ltrafast Processes Possible
A new algorithm increases the small time step required to create real-time simulations of ultrafast phenomena.
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Li-Fi-Like System Would Bring 100-Gbps Speeds Straight to Your Computer
Researchers are developing a system that takes light from optic fiber, amplifies it, and beams it across a room to deliver data at more than 100 Gbps.
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Nist Announces Pilot Grants Competition to Improve Security and Privacy of Online Identity Verification Systems
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a fourth round of grants for developing online identity verification systems that help...
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