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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Android Fingerprint Sensors 6 Months Away
The FIDO Alliance is aggressively pushing a new standard of biometric identification for consumer access to mobile payments and other services.
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Which World Governments Are Most Likely to Snoop on Your Facebook?
The United States, Italy, the United Kingdom, India, and Australia have the highest rates of government surveillance of Facebook accounts.
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Your Digital Trail, And How It Can Be sed Against You
While the collection of private information by the National Security Agency is under scrutiny worldwide, a remarkable amount of your digital trail is also available...
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Nsa Gathers Data on Social Connections of .s. Citizens
The U.S. National Security Agency in 2010 started creating sophisticated graphs of some Americans' social networks.
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Baseball's Beacon Trials Hint at Apple's Location Revolution
As we neared the threshold of the gates in front of the walkway to the home of the New York Mets, a message popped up on developer Chad Evans' space-gray iPhone...
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Privacy Entrepreneur Turns Nsa Snooping Into Profit (q&a)
In a double dose of irony, the National Security Agency's prying has given a big helping hand to Phil Zimmermann's business, Silent Circle.
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k to Create New Cyber Defence Force
The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence will recruit reservists as computer experts to work alongside regular forces in its new Joint Cyber Reserve Unit.
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Nsa Chief Defends Collecting Americans' Data
The head of the National Security Agency delivered a vigorous defense Wednesday of his agency's collection of Americans' phone records for counterterrorism purposes...
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Tuning In to Graphene
New ultra-fast wireless antennas may be on the way, but don't throw away your old wireless router just yet.
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Making the Internet Safe For Gadgets
Initiatives favor direct connections, named resources, and cryptography.
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The Alan Turing Year Leaves a Rich Legacy
A year-long celebration of the life and work of a man whom many call the founding father of computer science.
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New Password in a Heartbeat
A new, secure method may dramatically cut the risk that an implanted medical device could be altered remotely without authorization.
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Meet the Machines that Steal Your Phone's Data
The National Security Agency's spying tactics are being intensely scrutinized following the recent leaks of secret documents. However, the NSA isn't the only U.S...
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Encrypted Heartbeats Keep Hackers from Medical Implants
Rice University researchers have found a solution to the potential for hacking an implanted defibrillator.
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Utilities Try to Learn From Smart Meters
Utilities have installed more than 60 million smart meters in North America in the past decade.
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Nsa Efforts to Evade Encryption Technology Damaged .s. Cryptography Standard
In the three months since Edward Snowden began his whistle-blowing campaign against the National Security Agency (NSA) the former government contractor has exposed...
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Suspect Nist Crypto Standard Long Thought to Have a Back Door
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology advises against using the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generation standard.
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