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Web Tracking Has Become a Privacy Time Bomb
For more than a decade, tracking systems have been taking note of where you go and what you search for on the Web—without your permission. Today many of the personal...
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Building Robots that Understand Human Emotions and Make People Healthier
For most of us, the closest we get to a robot in daily life is a Roomba. But Dr. Cynthia Breazeal, director of the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab...
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Your Smartphone: A New Frontier For Hackers
Last week, security researchers uncovered yet another strain of malicious software aimed at smartphones that run Google's popular Android operating system. The...
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Your Face
Imagine being able to sit down in a bar, snap a few photos of people, and quickly learn who they are, who their friends are, where they live, what kind of music...
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Major Breakthrough Claimed in Wireless Technology
Dropped calls, unsent texts, painfully slow Internet connections and overcrowded Wi-Fi hot spots have become a bane of modern life. But veteran valley entrepreneur...
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Marvell Tapped By China to Develop Mobile Phone Standard
Chipmaker Marvell, whose top management is based in Santa Clara, has been tapped to help China achieve the goal of creating its own mobile technology standards...
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Pentagon Seeks a Few Good Social Networkers
The Pentagon is developing plans to use social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter as both a resource and a weapon in future conflicts. Its research and...
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Meet Dark Tangent, the Hacker Behind Black Hat and Def Con
The word "hacker" evokes all kinds of scary images. But Jeff Moss says hackers are exactly what the world needs more of, because they can make the Internet safer...
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Can Microsoft Make You 'bing'?
Mike Nichols has a poster on his office wall. It shows the young Muhammad Ali glaring down at a fallen Sonny Liston, the bruising heavyweight who had seemed invincible...
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Researchers Expose Cunning Online Tracking Service That Can
Researchers at U.C. Berkeley have discovered that some of the net's most popular sites are using a tracking service that can't be evaded—even when users block...
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The Gps: A Fatally Misleading Travel Companion
In remote places like California's Death Valley, over-reliance on GPS navigation systems can be a matter of life and death.
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Nsa Lawyer Questioned Over Cellphone Location Tracking of Americans
Is the government using cellular data to track Americans as they move around the U.S.? According to the general counsel of the National Security Agency, it may...
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The Edison of Silicon Valley
Steve Perlman, Silicon Valley’s self-styled Thomas Edison, has found a way to increase wireless capacity by a factor of 1,000.
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Phone App Could Keep an Eye on Your Ride
Intel researchers are working on a project that connects the electronics inside a car to the Internet, so that mobile applications can provide a car owner with...
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Can We Make Machines Listen More Carefully?
You probably use voice recognition technology already, if in a limited capacity. Maybe you use Google's voice-activated search, or take advantage of its (somewhat...
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Decoding Your Email Personality
Imagine, if you will, a young Mark Zuckerberg circa 2003, tapping out mail messages from his Harvard dorm room. It's a safe bet he never would have guessed that...
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Why Bitcoin Is Not As Anonymous As Most sers Think
People who use Bitcoin to ensure their purchases remain anonymous may want to reconsider their reliance on the online peer-to-peer currency, say researchers who...
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Social Media History Becomes a New Job Hurdle
Companies have long used criminal background checks, credit reports and even searches on Google and LinkedIn to probe the previous lives of prospective employees...
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