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How Technical Glitches Foiled the Russian Sleeper Spies
Spying for Russia can be a hard life. The feds are on your trail, always trying to find out who you’re meeting with and talking to.
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Gartner: 10 Key It Trends For 2012
If you had to pick 10 technology-related trends that will affect your enterprise infrastructure in the coming year, Gartner says you'd do well to start with virtualization...
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Pivoting Pixels
National Chiao Tung University researchers have developed a method for using micro-electromechanical systems to create mechanical pixels for computerized displays...
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Quantum Keys Let Submarines Talk Securely
Submarines must be able to talk securely with remote naval bases while remaining submerged. Could quantum communications allow them to pull off this technically...
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A New Chapter For E-Books
The problem with the Harry Potter series, for me and many others, was that it had to end.
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Headless, Humanoid Robot Preps For Army Duty
Sauntering toward you like a mechanized zombie is the Army’s newest recruit: a robot with a blinking red light where its head should be.
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A Deeper Look Into Space
NASA hopes the James Webb Space Telescope, which can detect ancient light that its predecessors can’t, will reveal more information about the origins of the universe...
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China Tangles with Internet Access
Internet giants like Google and Twitter have had to beat a retreat from China after being blocked or restricted, and now, some tech lobbies are stepping up pressure...
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The Making of Arduino
How five friends engineered a small circuit board that’s taking the DIY world by storm.
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The Genius of Jobs
One of the questions I wrestled with when writing about Steve Jobs was how smart he was. On the surface, this should not have been much of an issue.
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Kevin Mitnick Rates Today's Blackhats
Kevin Mitnick was hacking when the LulzSec kids were still in training pants.
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IBM Simulates 4.5% of the Human Brain, and All of the Cat Brain
Supercomputers can store more information than the human brain and can calculate a single equation faster, but even the biggest, fastest supercomputers in the world...
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Apple Patent ses 3d Gestures to Control an Ipad
Forget relying solely on touch to control your Apple device. On future iPads, you may be able to control your tablet from across the room using 3D gestures, such...
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Is Checking Sports Scores or Personal Email at Work a Crime?
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has agreed to reconsider a 2-1 ruling issued in April that critics said made it a crime to violate an employer's...
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Microsoft Sees Screens Everywhere in Futuristic Video
Say what you will about Microsoft's execution in developing cool products and services consumers want, where rivals such as Apple and Google have stolen a beat...
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A Social-Media Decoder
From his 24th-floor corner office in midtown Manhattan, the veteran CBS research chief David Poltrack can gaze southward down the Avenue of the Americas, its...
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Ice Cream Sandwich: A Deep-Dive Tour With Android
There are few things in this world I despise more than software updates. Downloading hundreds of files, waiting for the progress bar to fill, restarting the device—it’s...
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Nasa in Final Preparations For Nov. 8 Asteroid Flyby
NASA scientists will be tracking asteroid 2005 YU55 with antennas of the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif., as the space rock safely flies past...
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How Yahoo Spawned Hadoop, the Future of Big Data
The email went to Eric14. His real name is Eric Baldeschwieler, but no one calls him that. At fourteen letters, Baldeschwieler is a mouthful, and he works in...
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