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5 Things You Need to Know About NSA Phone Tracking
The revelation that the Obama administration is pursuing a massive surveillance program that tracks countless U.S. and international phone calls has brought privacy...
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A Day in the Life of the Relentlessly Tracked
Controversy is raging over a court order allowing the FBI and the National Security Agency to seize aggregate information of millions of Verizon customer phone...
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Nasa Spacecraft Sees Tornado's Destructive Swath
A new image from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the extent of destruction...
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Nsa Collecting Phone Records of Millions of Verizon Customers Daily
The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers,...
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Wisee ses Wi-Fi Signals to Recognize Body Gestures
Researchers say they have found a way to detect and recognize human gestures based on how they affect Wi-Fi signals.
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They're Coming for Your DNA
DNA analysis is the major crime-solving advance of our time.
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Mit's Magic Bag Of Sand
The camera pushes in. And there, near the meridian line, you see a faint scattering of red lights. Something is in the tar. And it's glowing.
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Cerf Sees a Problem: Today's Digital Data Could Be Gone Tomorrow
Google chief Internet evangelist and ACM president Vint Cerf worries that much of the data generated since the Internet's beginning will be lost over time.
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This Man Is Not a Cyborg. Yet.
Get right up close to Dmitry Itskov and sniff all you like—you will not pick up even the faintest hint of crazy.
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A Camera Without a Lens (and a Sensor the Size of a Pixel)
Cameras as we know them have long been eye-like: a lens captures light and focuses it on film or a detection sensor, just as the lenses in our eyes focus light...
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Let's Play: Making Travel a Game
It was a Sunday afternoon in SoHo and while most New Yorkers were having brunch, Makeda Peters and her boyfriend were on a street corner craning their necks at...
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Sri International Is an Innovation Powerhouse Trying to Rise Above the Noise of Apple, Google, and Facebook
When Intel worried years ago that its marvelous innovation wasn't being noticed by consumers-at-large, it launched the ubiquitous "Intel Inside" campaign.
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Nasa's Grail Mission Solves Mystery of Moon's Surface Gravity
NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has uncovered the origin of massive invisible regions that make the moon's gravity uneven, a phenomenon...
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Wanted For the Internet of Things: Ant-Size Computers
If the Internet is to reach everywhere—from the pills you swallow to the shoes on your feet—then computers will need to get a whole lot smaller.
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In China, Big Data Is Becoming Big Business
With 1.3 billion people, a quickly expanding urban economy, and rising rates of Internet and smartphone penetration, China generates an immense amount of data annually...
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This Pentagon Project Makes Cyberwar as Easy as Angry Birds
The target computer is picked. The order to strike has been given. All it takes is a finger swipe and a few taps of the touchscreen, and the cyberattack is prepped...
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Galaxies Fed By Funnels of Fuel
Computer simulations of galaxies growing over billions of years have revealed a likely scenario for how they feed: a cosmic version of swirly straws.
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Graphics Gurus Master Wispy Hair, Snowballs, Torn Paper
The computer graphics industry has an insatiable appetite for realism, and researchers next month will show how they plan to feed it with innovations in computerized...
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Xbox? More Like Xbody: Future Game Consoles Will Get nder Your Skin
Imagine playing through a level of the popular zombie shooter "Left 4 Dead" on a system that tracks your heart rate, eye movements, even how clammy your skin is...
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