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American Businesses in China Feel Heat of a Cyberdispute
A top Chinese general was in a combative mood as he presided recently over an international security forum at a historic hotel near the Forbidden City. Among the...
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Automating Cybersecurity
If only computers themselves were smart enough to fight off malevolent hackers.
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Nsa Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
The U.S. National Security Agency is intercepting massive numbers of facial images for use in facial-recognition programs.
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Sex Harassment App Helps Women Map Abuse
A team of researchers has created a smartphone app designed to combat sexual harassment.
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Why Did the Justice Department Indict Five Chinese Military Officers?
At first glance, the Justice Department's 31-count indictment of five Chinese military officers for hacking into the computers of six American corporations, in...
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Scientists Report Finding Reliable Way to Teleport Data
Scientists in the Netherlands have moved a step closer to overriding one of Albert Einstein's most famous objections to the implications of quantum mechanics, which...
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.s. Companies Seek Cyber Experts For Top Jobs, Board Seats
Some of the largest U.S. companies are looking to hire cybersecurity experts in newly elevated positions and bring technologists on to their boards, a sign that...
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A Tour of Bletchley Park: Codebreaking that Helped Win Wwii, and the Birthplace of the Modern Computer
MI6 called it Station X.
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Quantum Cryptography With Ordinary Equipment
Japanese researchers have proposed an approach to quantum cryptography they say could work with commercially available equipment.
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Brokers se 'billions' of Data Points to Profile Americans
Are you a financially strapped working mother who smokes?
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Going Dark: The Internet Behind the Internet
The average computer user with an Internet connection has access to an amazing wealth of information. But there's also an entire world that's invisible to your...
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sing Thoughts to Control Airplanes
Pilots of the future could be able to control their aircraft by merely thinking commands.
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'smart Pills' with Chips, Cameras, and Robotic Parts Raise Legal, Ethical Questions
Each morning around 6, Mary Ellen Snodgrass swallows a computer chip.
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The 10 Algorithms That Dominate Our World
Some algorithms shape and control our world more than others — and these 10 are the most significant.
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B-52 Bomber Gets Its First New Communications System Since the 1960s
The B-52 bomber, one of the great stalwarts of America's military arsenal, is getting its first major communications system upgrade since the Kennedy administration...
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Tracking Lost Luggage Part of At&t's Vision of the Future
AT&T has demonstrated its User-Defined Network Cloud and other innovative technologies that could soon be available.
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Despite Data Thefts, the Password Endures
Efforts to replace passwords with better protections face an uphill battle.
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How the .s. Could Escalate Its Name-and-Shame Campaign Against China's Espionage
Earlier this week the U.S. Department of Justice indicted five Chinese military officers for industrial espionage, accusing them of leading attacks on the computers...
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'killer Robots': Are They Really Inevitable?
The robot tank is moving rapidly through the scrub on its caterpillar tracks.
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