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Microsoft Ponders Future of Kinect, Tech
When Microsoft thinks about the future of technology, it seems to do so with its stomach.
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In the World of Big Data, Privacy Invasion Is the Business Model
Recent weeks have seen a lot of (overdue) talk about privacy and technology. There was theflap over Path and other mobile apps uploading your phone's address books...
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DARPA Warns: Your Iphone Is a Military Threat
There’s a growing threat to the U.S. military, according to the Pentagon's premier research wing. No, it's not Iran’s nukes or China's missiles. It's the iPads,...
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Defense Department Wants More Control Over the Internet
The U.S. Department of Defense may have funded the research that led to the Internet, but freewheeling innovation created the patchwork of privately owned technology...
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Mit Takes Aim at Secure, Self-Healing Cloud
MIT researchers are studying how to build a cloud computing infrastructure that recognizes and eliminates a cyberattack under normal operating procedures.
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Google Web Grows in City
Google Inc. has dramatically expanded its presence in Manhattan in the past year, adding roughly 750 people to its outpost in 2011 in the most prominent example...
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Leap Year Blamed For Hicaps Stumble
Today's extra day in February has caused the payment system used by the health industry to crash, preventing 150,000 customers from using private health care cards...
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Nasa Pinning Down Where 'here' Is Better Than Ever
Before our Global Positioning System navigation devices can tell us where we are, the satellites that make up the GPS need to know exactly where they are.
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Garmin Finds a New Direction
In the pantheon of seemingly obsolete technologies, automobile navigation devices might seem ready to join laser discs and pagers.
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Cryptosystems Showing Signs of 'wear and Tear'
It's been an interesting year in the cryptography world, with new attacks on several algorithms, continued problems with hash functions, and the recent research...
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Did the Ap Just Declare War on News Aggregators?
Like virtually every other traditional news entity, the Associated Press newswire has been under pressure for some time from digital media. But this disruptionthe...
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In Attack on Vatican Web Site, a Glimpse of Hackers' Tactics
The elusive hacker movement known as Anonymous has carried out Internet attacks on well-known organizations like Sony and PBS. In August, the group went after its...
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Standards Leader Blasts Html5 Video Copy Protection
Microsoft, Google, and Netflix recently proposed a standard for copy-protected Web video, but HTML editor Ian Hickson calls it impractical and unethical.
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How Data Storage Cripples Mobile Apps
The latest smart phones and tablets at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month came with an emphasis on faster processors and compatibility with faster...
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New Chips Help Bring High-Definition Sound to Smartphones and Other Devices
Smartphone owners can surf the Web, pay bills, watch videos, enjoy music, and send email. But while their gadgets have been designed to handle increasing amounts...
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Appeals Court pholds Constitutional Right Against Forced Decryption
A federal appeals court has found a Florida man's constitutional rights were violated when he was imprisoned for refusing to decrypt data on several devices.
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The Coming Entanglement: Bill Joy and Danny Hillis
Digital innovators Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, and Danny Hillis, co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, talk with Scientific American Executive Editor...
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The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom
Dozens of countries are pushing aggressively for the establishment of international control over the Internet via the United Nations' International Telecommunication...
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