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Sopa Hearings Cast Debate as Old Media vs. New Media
The circus atmosphere of the hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act, introduced by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), reflected the high-stakes, emotional nature of the...
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Japan Group to Build Smart Power Grids That Treat Energy Like Network Data
Japan's Digital Grid Consortium plans to develop large-scale energy grids that can handle power the way the Internet handles data, using routers and service providers...
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Iran's Alleged Drone Hack: Tough, but Possible
Take everything that Iran says about its captured U.S. drone with a grain of salt. But its new claim that it spoofed the drone’s navigational controls isn't implausible...
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Dm: Iran Pioneering Drone Production
Iran is a leading country in manufacturing different types of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi stressed on Monday.
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Tiny Biocomputers Move Closer to Reality
Several research groups are developing DNA-based circuits that could one day monitor and treat disease from inside the body.
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Data Mining Without Prejudice
A new technique for finding relationships between variables in large data sets makes no prior assumptions about what those relationships might be.
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Warning to Gossipy Grunts: Darpa's Eyeing Your Email
The Pentagon's intent on weeding out "insider threats"—troops or other military personnel who might be disgruntled enough to (Wiki)leak some documents or mentally...
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Scientists Break World Record For Data-Transfer Speeds
Researchers are claiming a new world record for data transfers over long distances.
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Vint Cerf: Sopa Means 'unprecedented Censorship' of the Web
Google chief Internet evangelist Vint Cerf has sent a letter to U.S. House Judiciary chairman Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), adding his voice to those of many other...
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5 Disruptive Technologies Happening Now
From e-books to 3D printing, these technologies are destroying markets and creating new ones.
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Iran Hijacked .s. Drone, Says Iranian Engineer
Iran guided the CIA's "lost" stealth drone to an intact landing inside hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-known to the U.S. military...
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Did a U.s. Radar Research Station Disable Russia's Phobos Probe?
Soon after the ill-fated Phobos-Grunt spacecraft stalled in Earth orbit, a former Russian official implicated "powerful American radars" in Alaska. Is there a...
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Senators, Critics Question Icann's Generic Tld Plan
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' plan to introduce hundreds of new generic top-level domains next year may be moving too fast, said U.S....
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Seven Ways to Get Yourself Hacked
In recent months, I've met at least three people who have been the victim of hackers who've taken over their Gmail accounts and sent out emails to everyone in...
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Spam Works
Every day three-quarters of all e-mail that flies across the Internet is spam. Some of it tricks customers into installing a virus or forking over personal information...
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Meet Sopa Author Lamar Smith, Hollywood's Favorite Republican
Rep. Lamar Smith, whose congressional district in Texas encompasses the cropland and grazing land stretching between Austin and San Antonio, might seem like an...
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How seful Is a Captured Drone?
An American surveillance drone has been captured and filmed in Iran, where experts are apparently examining it.
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Carrier Iq Gets Transparent About Its Mobile Monitoring
It's been a tumultuous few weeks for Carrier IQ, the mobile analytics outfit at the center of a continuing privacy brouhaha over what its diagnostic software...
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Flight of the Warbots
How a save-the-earth maker of solar-powered aircraft became the world's most prolific manufacturer of military drones.
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