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Patents, Anyone? Gadget Makers Continue to Square Off in Court
Whatever your stance on the current state of patent law—it's essential to protecting intellectual property, it's detrimental to innovation, or something in between—the...
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Can Brain Research Keep S Safe?
Human conflict is often associated with the emergence of a new science or technology. The Civil War's Gatling gun changed battlefield tactics and led to modern...
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New Emotion Detector Sees When We're Lying
A sophisticated new camera system can detect lies just by watching our faces as we talk, experts say. The computerized system uses a simple video camera, a high...
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Bike Crash Wiped Details; Gps Data Filled Them In
After racing and biking back roads on the San Francisco Peninsula for almost half a century without serious incident, on July 3 I crashed while riding downhill...
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Hacker Rattles Security Circles
He claims to be 21 years old, a student of software engineering in Tehran who reveres Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and despises dissidents in his country.
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Diginotar Ssl Certificate Hack Amounts to Cyberwar, Says Expert
The Dutch government says hackers who broke into a web security firm in the Netherlands last month issued hundreds of bogus security certificates that could be...
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Disabled Patients Mind-Meld With Robots
They're not quite psychic yet, but machines are getting better at reading your mind. Researchers have invented a new, noninvasive method for recording patterns...
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Quantum Minds: Why We Think Like Quarks
The fuzziness and weird logic of the way particles behave applies surprisingly well to how humans think.
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In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores
Amy Furman, a seventh-grade English teacher here, roams among 31 students sitting at their desks or in clumps on the floor. They're studying Shakespeare's "As...
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Security and Surveillance Pervades Post-9/11 New York City
From building-blocking bollards to millimeter-wave scanners, the September 11 terrorist attacks have led to significant changes in security techniques and technology...
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Brain-Reading Devices Could Kill Off Keyboard
The QWERTY keyboard has dominated computer typing for more than 40 years, but a new breakthrough that translates human thought into digital text may spell the...
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Nasa Technology, At Work on Earth
Variations of many NASA inventions, initially developed for space travel and exploration, have worked their way into consumer culture, ranging from common household...
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Nasa Gives Public New Internet Tool to Explore the Solar System
NASA is giving the public the power to journey through the solar system using a new interactive Web-based tool.
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The Next Wave of Botnets Could Descend from the Skies
The buzz starts low and quickly gets louder as a toy quadricopter flies in low over the buildings. It might look like flight enthusiasts having fun, but it could...
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10 Jobs That Barely Existed on 9/10/01, From Robot Squadmate to Warplane Whisperer
The terror attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, changed the lives of all Americans—few more so than the millions who have participated in the...
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When Cookies Leak Data
We all know that cookies need to be handled with care, and new research indicates that the Google search cookie has particular problems.
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Why Wireless Markets Are Concentrated
In its suit to block AT&T’s $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile, the Justice Department leans heavily on the argument that consolidated market power is bad for consumers...
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Apple's Design Wizard Has Not Left the Building
He was the resident wizard at 1 Infinite Loop, the guy sporting minimalist attire, closely cropped hair and a mischievous smile as he pulled one delightful new...
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