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Logging In With a Touch or a Phrase (anything but a Password)
Passwords are a pain to remember. What if a quick wiggle of five fingers on a screen could log you in instead? Or speaking a simple phrase?
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Bouncing Data Would Speed Up Data Centers
Inside the huge data centers operated by Internet companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook, information is processed at blistering speed, but it still has to...
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Mp: U.s. Forced Back By Iran's Cyber Power
A member of the Iranian parliament lauded the country's armed forces for downing a hi-tech US stealth drone through a cyber attack earlier this month, and said...
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Spies Fail to Escape Spyware in $5 Billion Bazaar For Cyber Arms
The intelligence operative sits in a leather club chair, laptop open, one floor below the Hilton Kuala Lumpur’s convention rooms, scanning the airwaves for spies...
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FTC Tells Global Internet Body to Cut Back Domain Name Plan
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has asked the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers not modify its plan to begin accepting applications for new...
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Why We Don't Have Domestic Robots Yet
On The Jetsons, Rosie was the robot maid with a heart of silicon and the voice of an aging cocktail waitress. She did everything: cook, clean, take care of the...
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IBM Predicts Home Electricity From Your Bike, Mind-Reading Computers
There's something about the year-end reflective state of mind that causes tech companies and institutions (and pundits) to make predictions about what they think...
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Quantum Computing with Holograms
Light is one of the most promising carriers of quantum information. It is robust against decoherence because it does not interact with stray electric and magnetic...
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FCC Commissioner Delivers Warning on Threat to 'internet Freedom'
The United States is not ready for the battle over whether the Internet will remain free from government regulations or fall under the control of emerging global...
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Touchless Smartphones and Tvs Could Be on Sale in 2012
So you've lost your TV remote control. Again.
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Pick Up the Phone, Nfl: The Future Is Calling
On the sidelines during every game, New York Jets cornerback Donald Strickland performs a trick familiar to any toddler who has ever held a flip book.
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Need a New Material? New Tool Can Help
Thanks to a new online toolkit developed at MIT and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, any researcher who needs to find a material with specific properties—whether...
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Google 'majel' May Answer Apple Siri
Apple's Siri voice assistant software has spurred Google to tack natural language processing onto its Voice Actions voice command application, a project code-named...
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Driverless Car: Google Awarded .s. Patent For Technology
The intellectual rights relate to a method to switch a vehicle from a human-controlled mode into the state where it takes charge of the wheel.
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Digital Data on Patients Raises Risk of Breaches
One afternoon last spring, Micky Tripathi received a panicked call from an employee. Someone had broken into his car and stolen his briefcase and company laptop...
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Should We Fire the First Shot in a Cyberwar?
Military bureaucracies around the world are likely to see offensive capabilities as increasingly attractive in any cyberwar, suggests the head of the computer...
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Sopa Hearings Cast Debate as Old Media vs. New Media
The circus atmosphere of the hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act, introduced by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), reflected the high-stakes, emotional nature of the...
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Japan Group to Build Smart Power Grids That Treat Energy Like Network Data
Japan's Digital Grid Consortium plans to develop large-scale energy grids that can handle power the way the Internet handles data, using routers and service providers...
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Iran's Alleged Drone Hack: Tough, but Possible
Take everything that Iran says about its captured U.S. drone with a grain of salt. But its new claim that it spoofed the drone’s navigational controls isn't implausible...
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