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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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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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Researchers Find a New Way to Mix Computers and Neurons
Nerve cell tendrils recently grew through tiny tubes made of semiconductor material in groundbreaking research conducted by University of Wisconsin, Madison graduate...
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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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Academics to 'embrace Wikipedia'
Students and academics at a world-leading London university want to build bridges between the Wikipedia website and formal research.
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Making a Microscope Without a Lens
Recent work from the University of Twente doesn't use a lens yet achieves a resolution that is about twice what you would expect under optimum conditions. How...
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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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Surveillance Robots Know When to Hide
The spy approaches the target building under cover of darkness, taking a zigzag path to avoid well-lit areas and sentries. He selects a handy vantage point next...
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How Did a British Polytechnic Graduate Become the Design Genius Behind
Few Westerners have ever seen the forging of a Japanese samurai sword. It's considered a sacred practice in Japan; one of the few traditional arts that has yet...
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Attack Code for SCADA Vulnerabilities Released Online
The security of critical infrastructure is in the spotlight again this week after a researcher released attack code that can exploit several vulnerabilities found...
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Does Rsa Securid Have a .s. Gov't-Authorized Back Door?
Does the RSA SecurID two-token authentication system include a back door that was built in at the request of the U.S. government in exchange for letting RSA export...
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At&t, T-Mobile Merger Blasted
A day after AT&T announced it would buy T-Mobile USA to create the biggest wireless carrier in the country, consumer advocates and some members of Congress blasted...
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Dueling Algorithms
There's an old joke about two hikers on a trail, one wearing hiking boots and the other running shoes. "Why the running shoes?" the first hiker asks. "In case...
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Https Is More Secure, So Why Isn't the Web Using It?
You wouldn't write your username and passwords on a postcard and mail it for the world to see, so why are you doing it online? Every time you log in to Twitter...
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Browser Communication Boost Back on Track
After a security problem derailed it last year, a technology to open a high-speed browser communications link is getting back on track again.
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