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Codebook Shows an Encryption Form Dates Back to Telegraphs
If not for a computer scientist’s hobby of collecting old telegraph codebooks, a crucial chapter in modern cryptography might have been lost to history.
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Decoding Your Email Personality
Imagine, if you will, a young Mark Zuckerberg circa 2003, tapping out mail messages from his Harvard dorm room. It's a safe bet he never would have guessed that...
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Why Bitcoin Is Not As Anonymous As Most sers Think
People who use Bitcoin to ensure their purchases remain anonymous may want to reconsider their reliance on the online peer-to-peer currency, say researchers who...
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Social Media History Becomes a New Job Hurdle
Companies have long used criminal background checks, credit reports and even searches on Google and LinkedIn to probe the previous lives of prospective employees...
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Living in the Digital Ecosystem
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman talks data mash-ups, entrepreneurship, and how his site keeps people honest.
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How to Stay Safe Online While Traveling
Taking a trip with always-on digital devices can be like traveling with your safe—and forgetting to lock it.
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Smartphones Get Smarter About Payments
Paying for the morning commute will soon be accomplished by the wave of a smartphone. State and local governments are joining Internet, credit card, and wireless...
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Study: Less Than 50% of Smartphone Users Make Calls
What's the point of a smartphone? If you answered "To make calls," then congratulations: You're in the minority. A new survey from social communications company...
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Welcome to the Age of the Splinternet
Openness is the Internet's great strength—and weakness. With powerful forces carving it up, is its golden age coming to an end?
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Little-Known Firms Tracking Data Used in Credit Scores
Atlanta entrepreneur Mike Mondelli has access to more than a billion records detailing consumers’ personal finances—and there is little they can do about it.
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Cloud Security Awaits Encryption Breakthroughs
The wider use of public clouds depends on further developments in encryption technology, said participants during a recent panel at the Brookings Institution.
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Forget Passwords and Let the Browser Remember
The Mozilla Foundation recently released BrowserID, an experimental tool designed to change the way users identify themselves online by storing identity information...
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Robots se Kinect to nderstand Our World
Picture the scene, a few years from now. "Robot, fetch me that pillow over there," you say to your ever-willing butlerbot. "Certainly sir," it replies. "What's...
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Stanford
What better way to combine your nerdy loves of computer programming and Star Wars than with a robot that can actually battle with a light saber?
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Telex Promises Path Around State-Sponsored Net Censorship
Researchers at the universities of Waterloo and Michigan have developed Telex, a system that enables Internet service providers to provide ways around network censorship...
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Photonic Neuron May Compute a Billion Times Faster Than Brain Circuits
Princeton University researchers and Lockheed Martin are developing fiber-optic-based computational devices that work 1 billion times faster than human neurons. ...
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Using Light to Send Data Across the Room
Visible light communication continues to attract academic and commercial interest because light-based technology is practical, economical, and would provide an...
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Machines to Compare Notes Online?
Autonomous machines, networks, and robots should publish their own suggestions for upgrading the technology on the Internet, says the University of Southampton's...
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The Internet of Things (infographic)
When we think of being connected to the Internet, our minds immediately shift to our computers, phones, and most recently tablets. This week at Cisco live, I...
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