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Pentagon Manhunt
Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive website Wikileaks for fear that he may be about to...
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Countering Counterfeiters
Counterfeiting is a huge problem. Luxury goods are a favorite target, but so are vital products including medications and aircraft parts. European researchers have...
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The Risks of Parenting While Plugged In
While waiting for an elevator at the Fair Oaks Mall near her home in Virginia recently, Janice Im, who works in early-childhood development, witnessed a troubling...
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Cyber War: Microsoft a Weak Link in National Security
"Microsoft has vast resources, literally billions of dollars in cash, or liquid assets reserves. Microsoft is an incredibly successful empire built on the premise...
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High-Wire Robot to Inspect the Grid
Researchers at the Electric Power Research Institute have developed a robot that can crawl along transmission lines to inspect electrical wires without the need...
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New Cyber Chief Outlines Strategy
Security experts said this week that they were cheered by calls from General Keith Alexander, head of the new U.S. Cyber Command, for global rules of engagement...
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Nist Helps Accelerate the Federal Government's Move to the Cloud
NIST will accelerate the U.S. government's secure adoption of cloud computing by leading efforts to develop standards and guidelines in close consultation with...
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How to Cope When the World Can Watch Everything You Do
In 1968, pop artist Andy Warhol declared that in the future everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes. As with many other predictions, it has not quite turned...
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IBM Exploring Voice-Driven Web For the Developing World
IBM Research India has launched the Spoken Web, a network designed to use phones, not computers, to bring information on the Web to mainly under-served populations...
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Researchers: Poor Password Practices Hurt Security for All
University of Cambridge researchers recently completed a large study of password-protected Web sites and found that a lack of industry standards harms end-user...
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Verizon Strives to Close Iphone Gap
When Steve Jobs wrapped up his announcement of the new iPhone 4, another big Apple Inc. event had come and gone with no mention of Verizon Wireless.
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Traffic Technology For a Cooperative Commute?
Thanks to new 'intelligent traffic' technology developed by European researchers, drivers could be in for a chattier, more cooperative commute.
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China Issues White Paper on Internet Policy
The Chinese government Tuesday published a white paper on its Internet policy, stressing the guarantee of citizens' freedom of speech on the Internet and more intensive...
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Isaca Identifies Top Five Social Media Risks For Business
An ISACA white paper names the top five social media risks for businesses and recommends solutions to help address the security, customer service and corporate...
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Technology Assists Paris Metro Passengers With Special Needs
Developed expressly to assist passengers with special needs, the Mobile Transit Companion mobile application uses context-aware self-adaptive computing to deliver...
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Military Taps Social Networking Skills
As a teenager, Jamie Christopher would tap instant messages to make plans with friends, and later she became a Facebook regular. Now a freckle-faced 25, a first...
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How Computers Know What We Want
Here's an experiment: try thinking of a song not as a song but as a collection of distinct musical attributes. Maybe the song has political lyrics. That would be...
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Little Known Norwegian Browser Challenges the Big Boys
No. 1 in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Belarus. It might not be a slogan to attract an avalanche of American Internet users, but the Norwegian company that makes the...
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