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Let Your Coaster Do the Talking
An interactive surface encourages conversation by letting coasters communicate.
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DoD Creates a Test Range for Cyberspace
The U.S. Department of Defense has set up the Information Assurance Range as a simulation of the Global Information Grid, as well as a virtual training ground for...
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Stanford Students Create 'do Not Track' Software
Stanford University researchers have developed Do Not Track, software that enables users to disable third-party Web tracking technology and tell advertisers to...
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How Can Online Advertising Companies Be Kept from Tracking Web Surfers?
The FTC is calling for "do not track" software, but one privacy and security expert said such programming would have to be incorporated into a browser for it...
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It Will Soon Be Too Late to Stop the Cyberwars
Clearly defining cyberwar is problematic because there are various levels of cyberespionage and tactics that create uncertainty, writes Bruce Schneier.
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Cables Discuss Vast Hacking by a China That Fears the Web
As China ratcheted up the pressure on Google to censor its Internet searches last year, the American Embassy sent a secret cable to Washington detailing why top...
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Rear-View Cameras on Cars Could Become Mandatory
The government has proposed requiring automakers to install the systems on all their vehicles to eliminate blind spots and reduce back-over accidents.
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WikiLeaks Struggles to Stay Online After Cyberattacks
An American provider of Internet domain names withdrew its service to the WikiLeaks Web site late Thursday after a barrage of attacks by hackers threatened to...
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Fcc Chief Previews Proposed Net Neutrality Rules
U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Julius Genachowski recently previewed new Net neutrality rules designed to preserve the Web "as a platform...
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Web Bug Reveals Browsing History
Porn sites are among the top users of a browser bug that reveals all the places people go online, finds research.
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Every Day We Write the Book
What would happen if Facebook made its data available for research?
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Google Earth Engine Debuts
In what promises to be one of the most impressive innovations to come out of the Cancun climate talks, the philanthropic arm of Google launched a new technology...
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Parc Readies Printed Electronics For Market
Early 2011 will see printed memory devices in toys and printed sensors in packages used to ship drugs.
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China Arrests Hundreds of Hackers, Says Situation 'grim'
China has arrested more than 460 hackers and solved 180 cyber attack cases this year, but the situation of hacker attacks is "still very grim and the number of...
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Professor Develops Innovative Technology For Wireless nderground Communication
Ryerson University professor Xavier Fernando has developed highly reliable underground wireless communications systems that can ensure miners' safety before and...
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Joanne Luciano Joins Rensselaer's Web Science Research Group
Joanne Sylvia Luciano has joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Tetherless World Research Constellation. Luciano's research uses computational modeling and...
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Media in China, Arab Middle East Suppressing Wikileaks Coverage
Revelations by the organization WikiLeaks have received blanket coverage this week on television, in newspapers and on Web sites around the globe. But in parts...
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Hackers Take the Kinect to New Levels
But achieving the Holy Grail—controlling a computer without touching it—proves more difficult.
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IBM Claims Breakthrough in Laser-Based Chips
IBM recently announced a breakthrough in the development of silicon-based chips that send data using pulses of laser light. IBM says the research sets the stage...
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