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Facebook's China Problem
Last May when Mark Zuckerberg wed his Chinese-American girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, a joke began to make the rounds on China's version of Twitter, a microblog—or...
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Tech's New Wave, Driven by Data
Technology tends to cascade into the marketplace in waves. Think of personal computers in the 1980s, the Internet in the 1990s, and smartphones in the last five...
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Are Hackers Heroes?
On the last day of June of this year, a tech Website called Redmond Pie posted two articles in quick succession that, on their face, had nothing to do with each...
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Amateur Mapmakers Redraw Boundaries, Working Online
Reshaped and renamed by generations of developers and gentrifiers, the borders of New York City’s neighborhoods are often hazy at best. Yesterday's Chinatown is...
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Big Brother on a Budget: How Internet Surveillance Got So Cheap
When Libyan rebels finally wrested control of the country last year away from its mercurial dictator, they discovered the Qaddafi regime had received an unusual...
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Nokia's Visionary Wants to Out-Design Apple
Marko Ahtisaari spreads out several models of Nokia's new smartphone with the self-assurance of a Tiffany diamond salesman.
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New App Will Help Make Sign Language Communication More Accessible
Hearing and deaf sign language users should be able to communicate more effectively using an app designed by researchers at the University of Bristol.
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Most Watched Online Ad of 2012 Campaign Is…
As we head into the election homestretch, it seems a good time to ask: What is the top watched online ad of the 2012 election cycle so far?
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How the Pros Thwart Computer Spies with James Bond Tricks
H.D. Moore wasn't taking chances.
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Review: Raspberry Pi
You can get a lot for $35 these days. It bought me what looks like a credit card-size James Bond gadget prototype but is actually a fully functional computer.
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What Do the H-Bomb and the Internet Have in Common? Paul Baran
Paul Baran set out to build a means of communication that could survive a nuclear war. And he ended up inventing the fundamental networking techniques that underpin...
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Computational Social Science: Making the Links
Jon Kleinberg's early work was not for the mathematically faint of heart.
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Harnessing nused Smartphone Power For a Computing Boost
Technical University of Braunschweig researchers have found that smartphones can be joined together in a network, which when connected via Wi-Fi, can carry out...
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Meet the Man Who's Rewiring Google From the Inside Out
It was a tweet that fired the imagination like few others. On May 10, 2011, at 1:35 in the afternoon, Eric Brewer told the world he was redesigning the most important...
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Making Web Applications More Efficient
Most major Websites these days maintain huge databases: Shopping sites have databases of inventory and customer ratings, travel sites have databases of seat availability...
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The Digital Wallet Is Starting to Take Shape
Imagine if, in addition to all the things your smartphone does now, it could also act as your keys to the real world.
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Take a Spin on the Moon and Mars
The death of first moonwalker Neil Armstrong and the success of NASA's Curiosity rover have reignited interest in the idea of taking a spin on the moon and Mars...
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Harness Unused Smartphone Power For a Computing Boost
Smarphone owners carry around more processing power in their pocket than a 1970s-era supercomputer, but most of the time it languishes unused.
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The Joys of rban Tech
For as long as many of us can remember, high-tech industries have flourished in the suburban office parks that are so ubiquitous in Silicon Valley, North Carolina's...
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