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Friends, and Influence, for Sale Online
Whoever said, "Money can't buy you friends," clearly hasn’t been on the Internet recently.
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Police Use New Tool to Source Crowds For Evidence
An annual spring party in a Southern California beach town devolved into a riot last month when revelers turned violent, rocking cars, smashing windows and throwing...
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Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's Future, From Virtual Reality to Anonymity
No one ever accused Mark Zuckerberg of standing pat.
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Future Macbook Keyboards May Come Loaded with In-Key Displays, Capacitive Touch
Showing the company is still making advances in more traditional tech, an Apple patent filing for "Multi-functional keyboard assemblies" describes a keyboard consisting...
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What's The Nsa Doing Now? Training More Cyber Warriors
The U.S. needs more cyber warriors, and it needs them fast, according to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
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Justices Appear Divided on Cellphone Warrants
The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed torn as it considered a pair of cases about whether the police need warrants to search the cellphones of people they arrest.
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Hackers Can Mess With Traffic Lights to Jam Roads and Reroute Cars
The hacker in the Italian Job did it spectacularly.
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Bitcoin Vies with New Cryptocurrencies as Coin of the Cyber Realm
At a bitcoin conference in Miami this January, Jeffrey Tucker, a laissez-faire economist and libertarian icon, made an unexpected observation.
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Few Consumers Are Buying Premise of Mobile Wallets
Millions of Americans use smartphones for tasks like hailing a taxi or checking in for a flight. But for buying something in a store?
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Supreme Court to Weigh Cellphone Searches
The Supreme Court will consider Tuesday whether police need a warrant to search a suspect's cellphone, in two appeals that could define the parameters of law enforcement...
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Snowden Retained Expert in Espionage Act Defense
Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who provided journalists a trove of classified documents, retained a well-known Washington defense...
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The First Look at How Google's Self-Driving Car Handles City Streets
The first rule of riding in Google's self-driving car, says Dmitri Dolgov, is not to compliment Google's self-driving car.
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Supreme Court Takes on Privacy in Digital Age
Two Supreme Court cases about police searches of cellphones without warrants present vastly different views of the ubiquitous device.
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Low-Level Federal Judges Balking at Law Enforcement Requests For Electronic Evidence
Judges at the lowest levels of the federal judiciary are balking at sweeping requests by law enforcement officials for cellphone and other sensitive personal data...
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Microsoft, Google, Other Tech Giants nite to Prevent Next Heartbleed
Microsoft, Google, and other tech giants have committed to contribute more than $3 million to an initiative to improve open source software.
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Russia's Putin Calls the Internet a 'cia Project'
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called the Internet a CIA project and made comments about Russia's biggest search engine Yandex, sending the company's shares...
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Technology Confounds the Courts
Despite the need to make decisions relevant to technologies, the U.S. Supreme Court is not the most techno-savvy group.
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Apple's Display Tech Lets Users Interact with 3D Objects in Mid-Air
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published an Apple patent application for an "Interactive three-dimensional display system," which details a method of presenting...
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The Cloud Industry Needs Aereo to Win. But Consumers Need Something Better.
The best way to think about Aereo, the company at the center of this week's Supreme Court battle over the future of computing, is as an example of legal performance...
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