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Home's Electrical Wiring Acts as Antenna to Receive Low-Power Sensor Data
Using a home's electrical wiring as a giant copper antenna enables extremely low-power wireless sensors that run for decades on a single watch battery. The device...
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Intel Will Teach Gadgets to Learn About You
Rather than teach your gadgets what to do, Intel researchers say that in the not-too-distant future they will learn about you on their own. That means where you...
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The Big Promise of Big Data: What You Need to Know Today
In the never-ending quest for a competitive advantage, organizations are turning to large repositories of corporate and external data to uncover trends, statistics...
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Anticensorship Tool Proves Too Good to Be True
Experts warn that the software could identify those it claims to protect.
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Tim Berners-Lee Calls For Free Internet Worldwide
Tim Berners-Lee said that he would like to see everybody given a low-bandwidth connection "by default."
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Intel Puts Game Physics in the Cloud
Simulating the physics of light makes for games that better mimic the real world.
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Why Isn't the Price of Broadband Obeying Moore's Law?
A new index from researchers at Northwestern University shows that the explosive pace in adopting broadband Internet access since 2004 has not led to a decline...
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Pew Study: We've Got Phone Apps, But Not All of S Are sing Them
Thirty-five percent of adults in the United States have "apps," or software programs on their cell phones now, but only 24 percent of them are actually using...
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The Next Stage of Online Video Evolution
HTML5 is changing the look of Web video, but can it edge out Flash?
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Number of New Computer Viruses at Record High
Cyber criminals are attracted to enormously popular Internet-based social networks such as Facebook or LinkedIn, and are using such networks to attack Internet...
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Most Influential Tweeters of All
Northwestern University researchers have designed a website that tracks the top trending topics on Twitter in real time. The website—pulseofthetweeters.com—uses...
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FCC Move to Release 'white Spaces' Has Tech Firms Dreaming of Wireless Boom
Entire towns linked to the Web as giant hot spots with seamless wireless connections. Internet-connected refrigerators that monitor when it's time to get more...
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Fcc Likely to Open Airwaves to Wireless
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is expected to approve the use of "white spaces"—unlicensed, TV-band airwaves that could lead to stronger, faster wireless...
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Can You Find Me Now?
By demonstrating fundamental limits on their accuracy, MIT researchers show how to improve wireless location-detection systems.
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Wheelchair Makes the Most of Brain Control
Artificial intelligence improves a wheelchair system that could give paralyzed people greater mobility.
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Quantum Cryptography Breached With Lasers
Three universities in Europe collaborated to develop a laser-based attack against quantum cryptography systems that allows them to eavesdrop on communications without...
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Mapping New Paths For a Stressed-Out Internet
Researchers in the United States and Europe have created the first geometric "atlas" of the Internet as part of a project to prevent the world's most ubiquitous...
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What Info Can ncle Sam Dig p About You?
Got any secrets you're hiding from Uncle Sam? The answer had better be no, because in the digital age, your life is more of an open book than ever before.
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Intel and Arm to Battle For the Hearts of Smartphones
Intel is aiming for a slice of the smartphone market with a new chip with built-in graphics.
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