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Secret Court Declassifies Opinion Providing Rationale For Metadata Sharing
For the first time, the United States' most secret court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), has published its legal rationale as to why the ...
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The New National Identity Is What Smartphone You Prefer, and Nobody's Quite Sure Why
In a fascinating note at Asymco, mobile analyst and ex-Nokian Horace Dediu details how people's taste in smartphones varies from place to place:
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Behold! Jonathan Ive's Apple
Apple is today releasing the much-anticipated iOS 7, and with it, the biggest overhaul of its mobile operating system since it debuted in 2007 with the original...
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Ambivalence on Civil Liberties, Terrorism
When it comes to the balance between civil liberties and the war on terrorism, Americans seem to want the best of both worlds.
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Harvey's Injury Shows Pitchers Have a Speed Limit
Glenn Fleisig's rather unusual laboratory has a pitcher's mound and a home plate, and when he rigs people up to throw a baseball, their motion is analyzed with...
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Music Site Chatbot Wins AI Loebner Contest
A chatbot called Mitsuku was judged most convincingly human artificial intelligence program of the contestants in the Loebner contest.
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Ios 7, Thoroughly Reviewed
When we reviewed iOS 6 a year ago, we called it a "spit-and-polish" release and stand by that assessment today.
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Google's Coder Tool Turns Raspberry Pi Into a Mini Web Server
A new open source development tool from Google is designed to make it easier to use Raspberry Pi computers to build Web applications.
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Machine Language: How Siri Found Its Voice
GM Voices is nestled on a rolling, leafy road in Alpharetta, Georgia, an affluent suburb of Atlanta.
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Cryptographers Have an Ethics Problem
Last week, I visited the MIT computer science department looking for a very famous cryptographer.
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How Robots Can Trick You Into Loving Them
I like to think of my Roomba as cute and industrious.
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Say Goodbye to the Password
Here's the fundamental problem with passwords: They are most effective in protecting a company when they are long, complicated and changed frequently. In other...
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Disney Develops 'magical' Device to Make Fingertips Sing
The Inshin-Den-Shin technology developed at Disney Research transmits sound through the human body, and turns fingertips into speakers.
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The Skies. The Limits.
Long ago, in a dreamier era, space stations were imagined as portals to the heavens.
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Security Tech Firms Hit Jackpot in Asia Casino Boom
Asia's new mega-casinos are driving sales and innovation in advanced surveillance technology, from chips with built-in radio transmitters to high-definition, multi...
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E-Zpasses Get Read All Over New York (not Just at Toll Booths)
After spotting a police car with two huge boxes on its trunk—that turned out to be license-plate-reading cameras—a man in New Jersey became obsessed with the loss...
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Wireless Network Detects Falls by the Elderly
New fall-detection technology would not require the elderly to wear any monitoring devices.
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The Boy Genius of lan Bator
Days before I was to meet Battushig Myanganbayar at his home in Mongolia, he sent me an e-mail with a modest request: Would I bring him a pair of tiny XBee wireless...
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