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London Riots: Britain Weighs Personal Freedoms Against Need to Keep Order
The British government is taking aim at social media amid the recent riots, claiming that it is undermining the country's democracy. British and Scottish authorities...
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When Social Media Mining Gets It Wrong
A complex picture of your personal life can now be pieced together using a variety of public data sources, and increasingly sophisticated data-mining techniques...
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Open Source Effort Will Deliver Low-Cost Wi-Fi For All
The nonprofit Manna Energy Foundation's Geeks Without Frontiers initiative recently announced the final development of an inexpensive, open source Wi-Fi software...
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David Cameron Considers Banning Suspected Rioters from Social Media
David Cameron has told parliament that in the wake of this week's riots the government is looking at banning people from using social networking sites, such as...
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Why Rioters Won't Be Protected by BlackBerry Messaging System
Those involved in the recent rioting and looting in Britain are unlikely to have their identities protected by the BlackBerry Messenger service, contrary to reports...
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Futurist Ray Kurzweil Says He Can Bring His Dead Father Back to Life Through a Computer Avatar
Ray Kurzweil, a prominent inventor and "futurist" who has long predicted that mind and machine will one day merge, has been making arrangements to talk to his...
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Future of War: Private Robot Armies Fight It Out
If robots are simply computers with wings (and missiles), then expect to see future wars fought by the descendants of flash-trading algorithms, with humans as...
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Mobile Computing Giants in Patent Free-For-All
The mobile computing boom has turned into a courthouse war of the titans, as big tech companies are increasingly engaged in high-dollar legal disputes over lucrative...
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NASA Mars Rover Arrives at New Site on Martian Surface
After a journey of almost three years, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the Red Planet’s Endeavour crater to study rocks never seen before...
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Police to Track Rioters Who Used Blackberrys
Police investigating those responsible for the London riots will be able to track down and arrest them based on their BlackBerry Messenger communication with...
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Defcon Opens Its Doors to Pre-Teen and Teen Hackers
DefCon, the conference where hackers and the people who monitor them get together to trade the latest in hacking and tracking data, had some new attendees: children...
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Mobilizing Help for People Accused of Hacking
When Senator Joseph R. McCarthy held hearings in the 1950s to question witnesses about their supposed ties to communism, critics accused him of fomenting a Red...
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Researchers Show Off Homemade Spy Drone at Black Hat
Security researchers Mike Tassey and Richard Perkins recently unveiled the Wi-Fi Aerial Surveillance Platform, a remote controlled unmanned aerial vehicle that...
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Perfect Communication With Imperfect Chips
Massachusetts Institute of Technology research affiliate Lav Varshney has shown that some of the most commonly used codes in telecommunications can guarantee the...
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Why Has BlackBerry Been Blamed for the London Riots?
The whole of London is taking stock after outbreaks of violence and looting across the capital. Ealing, Camden, Peckham, Clapham, Lewisham, Woolwich, and Hackney...
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Network Effects: Social Media's Role in the London Riots
Facebook and Twitter can fuel uprisings by allowing participants to coordinate action and to see themselves as part of a larger movement.
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Sysadmin Day Goes Global
It’s not unusual for system administrators to spend long days in the office—and even wind up sleeping in them overnight. Or get paged at 2 A.M. or on Thanksgiving...
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Web Tracking Has Become a Privacy Time Bomb
For more than a decade, tracking systems have been taking note of where you go and what you search for on the Web—without your permission. Today many of the personal...
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Caltech-Led Engineers Solve Longstanding Problem in Photonic Chip Technology
California Institute of Technology researchers have created a method to isolate light signals on a silicon chip, which they say could lead to the development of...
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