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White House and Department of Homeland Security Want a Way Around Encryption
The White House and U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials support arguments by the nation’s law enforcement and intelligence leaders that encryption technology...
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Security Professionals Stymied By Outdated Visualization Tools
Earlier this year, the film Blackhat got high marks for realistic scenes in which hackers and information security specialists work at their computers to hunt down...
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How Benford's Law Reveals Suspicious Activity on Twitter
Back in the 1880s, the American astronomer Simon Newcomb noticed something strange about the book of logarithmic tables in his library—the earlier pages were much...
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Researchers Hack Sony Headset to Simulate Autism
Japanese researchers have used an experimental headset to simulate the vision and hearing of people with autism spectrum disorder.
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Smart City Technology May Be Vulnerable to Hackers
Cesar Cerrudo, chief technology officer at IOActive Labs, says "smart city" technologies are vulnerable to cyberattacks.
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3D Simulations of Colliding Black Holes Hailed As Most Realistic Yet
When astronomers try to simulate colliding giant black holes, they usually rely on simplified approximations to model the swirling disks of matter that surround...
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On Time-Lapse Rocket Ride to Trade Center's Top, Glimpse of Doomed Tower
An imposingly realistic vision of the old 1 World Trade Center, the ultimately doomed north tower, will begin appearing next month in a most unlikely place: the...
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How Factory Workers Learned to Love Their Robot Colleagues
Workers at a Navistar truck plant in Ohio weren't eager to make friends when a new colleague showed up on the factory floor nearly 40 years ago.
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Google's Project Loon Close to Launching Thousands of Balloons
Google is close to launching thousands of balloons in an effort to provide Internet access from the sky.
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Paper Memory Ready to Roll
Researchers have printed memory circuits directly on paper using roll-to-roll printing techniques and commercially available metallic inks.
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N-Zero Envisions 'asleep-Yet-Aware' Electronics That Could Revolutionize Remote Wireless Sensors
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Near Zero Power and Sensor Operations program is working to develop wireless, event-driven sensing capabilities...
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Technology That Prods You to Take Action, Not Just Collect Data
The bookshelves in Natasha Dow Schüll’s office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are punctuated here and there with kitchen timers: a windup orange plastic...
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Google's Search pdated Will Remake the Web in Its Own Image
Some people are calling it Mobilegeddon.
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Glitter Cloud May Serve as Space Mirror
What does glitter have to do with finding stars and planets outside our solar system?
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Computing After Moore's Law
The technologies chip makers hope can keep Moore's Law alive.
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3 Questions on Killer Robots
Delegates to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons are meeting this week in Geneva to discuss fully autonomous weapons—machines that could...
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Researchers Send Out an Extensive Look Into Email Behavior
Researchers conducted a large-scale study of email behaviors involving more than 2 million participants who sent 16 billion messages over several months.
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Fighting the Next Generation of Cyberattacks
Researchers recently received a $3-million U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grant to develop software that can identify a new kind of vulnerability...
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Car Safety System Could Anticipate Driver's Mistakes
Cornell University researchers have developed an algorithm-based automotive system to predict if the driver will turn, change lanes, or continue going straight. ...
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