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Should the Government Need a Search Warrant to Track Your Car with Gps?
The Supreme Court ended its term with a high-profile ruling that violent video games are protected by the First Amendment, but a bigger technology decision could...
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Engineers Work to Ease Internet Data Flow as Demand For Video Grows
Princeton University researchers have developed the Edge Laboratory, a miniature version of the global communications network, to develop new ideas and systems...
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Wi-Fi 'napping' Doubles Phone Battery Life
Duke University researchers have developed SleepWell, software that can double the battery life of mobile devices by making changes to Wi-Fi technology.
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The Tragic Decline of Blackberry
Research In Motion (RIM), makers of the venerable BlackBerry devices, will always be remembered as the company that liberated corporate email from the PC. In...
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Google+ Contributor and Mac Pioneer Talks with CNET
Thirty years ago, Andy Hertzfeld was a young computer engineer working at Apple Computer on the first Macintosh under the leadership of Steve Jobs. As Jobs had...
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How Divorce Lawyers Use Social Networks
Updates you've posted to Facebook and Twitter can present obvious problems when you're searching for a job or starting a new relationship. But a growing number...
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Phone-Call Cartography
Americans are more connected now than ever. Mobile phones allow people to maintain relationships with friends, family, and colleagues across long distances. If...
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Global Tech Leaders Promote Open Internet
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has released a set of 14 policies designed to maintain the Internet as a forum for open communication...
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Maryland Sees Its Moment in Cybersecurity
As Fort Meade increasingly becomes a stronghold for federal cybersecurity, Maryland officials and business advocates are trying to take advantage of what they...
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Cisco Poised to Help China Keep an Eye on Its Citizens
Western companies, including Cisco Systems Inc., are poised to help build an ambitious new surveillance project in China—a citywide network of as many as 500,000...
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Hackers Select a New Target: Other Hackers
The hackers, calling themselves the A-Team, assembled a trove of private information and put it online for all to see: names, aliases, addresses, phone numbers...
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Interview with Key Lulzsec Hacker
It was early May when LulzSec's profile skyrocketed after a hack on the giant Sony corporation. LulzSec's name comes from Lulz, a corruption of LOL, often denoting...
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Model Finds Optimal Fiber Optic Network Connections 10,000 Times More Quickly
Designers of fiber-optic networks will be able to find the most efficient way to connect phones and computers that are in different places in just a few seconds...
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Microsoft Researchers Find Spammers By Graphing Social Networks
Microsoft researchers are studying how to differentiate spammer email accounts from legitimate users' accounts, and have found that attacker accounts do not have...
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DARPA Sharpens Focus on Video Analysis Technology
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is developing two video-analysis technologies for detecting activity from different imaging-capturing sensors...
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A Roboticist's Trip From Mines to the Moon
Robots created by William "Red" Whittaker have crawled into mines and volcanoes, crossed deserts, won a 60-mile road race, helped clean up nuclear waste and harvested...
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Autopiloted Glider Knows Where to Fly For a Free Ride
Hawks and albatrosses soar for hours or even days without having to land. Soon robotic gliders could go one better, soaring on winds and thermals indefinitely...
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My dad, who at 98 no longer drives, used to complain about women drivers, defensive drivers, slow drivers, cab drivers and, occasionally, fast drivers. I should...
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New Animation Depicts Next Mars Rover in Action
Although NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will not leave Earth until late this year nor land on Mars until August 2012, anyone can watch those dramatic events now...
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