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Social-Media Tools sed to Target Corporate Secrets
Not long after airstrikes began in Libya earlier this month, certain attorneys at four U.S. law firms, known for having high-profile clients in the oil industry...
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Companies Hope to 'program' the Internet
Most data networks could be faster, more energy efficient, and more secure. But network hardware—switches, routers, and other devices—is essentially locked down...
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Can Google Reinvent Web Video?
An ambitious attempt by Google to shift the Web over to a new, royalty-free video format has taken significant strides. New software has been released that can...
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The Secret to Some of Lucasfilm's Magic: Nvidia's Gpu Chips
Like the visual effects you've been seeing in movies these days? Of course, you already know that in most cases they're computer-generated. And as you've seen...
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.s. Spy Agency Is Said to Investigate Nasdaq Hacker Attack
The National Security Agency, the top U.S. electronic intelligence service, has joined a probe of the October cyber attack on Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. amid evidence...
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Flying Robots Team p to Juggle
Our flying robot overlords seem to have a fun side after all. In this video, watch two quadrocopters team up to skillfully juggle a ball, thanks to software developed...
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'gamifying' The System To Create Better Behavior
Say you're zooming down the highway, when you spot one of those speed-limit enforcement cameras from the corner of your eye. You hit the brakes, but not before...
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In a New Web World, No Application Is an Island
The Web is poised for a comeback. How’s that? Isn’t the Web already the crucial utility of online commerce, information and entertainment? In many ways, it certainly...
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First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit
At 5:20 am EDT on Mar. 29, 2011, Messenger captured this historic image of Mercury, the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit about the Solar System's...
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With Google's Gift, . of Oregon Expands International Cyberinfrastructure
A University of Oregon nonprofit that has provided networking technology and training to some of the world’s poorest nations has received a $1.25 million check...
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Benchmark Battle: Chrome vs. Ie vs. Firefox
There's no doubt the latest crop of stable browsers from Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla are the best the companies have ever produced. But how do they perform...
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A favorite pastime of Internet users is to share their location: services like Google Latitude can inform friends when you are nearby; another, Foursquare, has...
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Microsoft Scheme Sniffs Out nused Wireless Spectrum
Microsoft researchers have developed SpecNet, an architecture for measuring whether licensed radio frequencies are being used so that unlicensed devices can utilize...
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Cloud Computing, Data Policy on Track to 'democratize' Satellite Mapping
Far-sighted data policy and cloud computing are leading to the "democratization of satellite mapping," one expert says — and the payoff will be wider access to...
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A New Tool For .s. Intelligence: Google?
Traditionally, intelligence agencies have relied on top-secret information to track changes in other countries. But wiretaps and secret intercepts didn't help...
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Swiping Is the Easy Part
The cellphone has been more than a cellphone for years, but soon it could take on an entirely new role—standing in for all of the credit and debit cards crammed...
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Big Data to Drive a Surveillance Society
As real-time and batch analytics evolve using big data processing engines such as Hadoop, corporations will be able to track our activities, habits, and locations...
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2010: The Year Apple Also Became a Chip Company
While changes in the ancient market-share rivalry between chipmakers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices were unremarkable in 2010, the emergence of Apple as a force...
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Browser Wars: Mozilla's Firefox Challenges Microsoft's IE, Google's Chrome
The Internet browser wars are back. Mozilla released its long-awaited Firefox 4 browser Tuesday, a critical moment for the upstart that first challenged mighty...
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