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Defense Contractor Northrop Grumman Hiring For Offensive Cyber Ops
Defense giant Northrop Grumman is hiring software engineers to help it carry out "offensive cyberspace operations," according to a recent job posting.
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Silicon Valley Tech Executive Nabbed in False Barcode Scheme Involving Lego Toys
Ever since smartphones got their own bar code scanners, it's become commonplace for store security officers—who carefully monitor surveillance cameras at big box...
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Mit Creates Amazing Ui From Levitating Orbs
Jinha Lee from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab's Tangible Media Group has been experimenting with developing a tactile user interface in which...
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Leap Motion: 3D Hands-Free Motion Control, Unbound
Hands-free motion control, a technology pioneered by Nintendo's Wii and later improved upon by Microsoft's Kinect, just took a very big leap forward.
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'Adaptive Radio': The Next Big Thing in Wireless?
James Collier is loping in a broad circle on the Midsummer Common in Cambridge, England, holding aloft a two-foot fiberglass antenna.
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Meet the Man Who Invented the Instructions For the Internet
Steve Crocker was there when the Internet was born.
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Onstar Files Patents For Minority Report-Style Billboards
Two weeks ago, a patent filing by General Motors was uncovered that proposed using data collected from its OnStar service to tailor public advertisements to individual...
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5 Transformative Uses For Disney's Touch-Sensitive Technology
Disney has a new technology, called Touche, that can turn any object, including the human body, into a touch-sensitive surface that recognizes not only when contact...
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Study: Facebook Relies on Good Design to Retain Users
University of Washington graduate student Parmit Chilana recently interviewed Facebook engineers and design specialists to learn how they develop and deploy new...
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Individual Typing Style Gives Key to User Authentication
The unique typing styles of computer users could be used for authentication, according to Queensland University of Technology researcher Eesa Al Solami.
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Remember Stuxnet? Why the U.s. Is Still Vulnerable
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security revealed a rash of cyber attacks on natural gas pipeline companies. Just as with previous cyber attacks on infrastructure...
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Nine Things You Should Know About Facebook's Ipo
The social network priced its shares at $38 apiece, valuing the company at $104 billion.
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The Average Person Alive During Wwii and Now on Facebook Has 42 Friends
People who are older than 75 have seen the world do some crazy things. They were born during or before Hitler's rise to power, lived through the deprivation and...
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Mind-Controlled Robot Arms Show Promise
Two people who are unable to move their limbs have been able to guide a robot arm to reach and grasp objects using only their brain activity, a paper in Nature ...
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Why Flipping Through Paper-Like Pages Endures in the Digital World
When Instapaper developer Marco Arment updated his popular offline reading app for the iPad, something was different. Instapaper's normal pagination action—rendering...
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Smart Phones Are Changing Real World Privacy Settings
Tel Aviv University researchers have found that smartphones are challenging traditional concepts of privacy, especially in the public arena.
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Scientists Read a Galaxy's Entrails
Astronomers are taking a long, deep look at one of the best-known galaxies beyond our own Milky Way, to learn more about what happened when it gobbled up another...
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Facebook's Prospects May Rest on Trove of Data
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief, has managed to amass more information about more people than anyone else in history. Now what?
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Free, Browser-Based 'wolfenstein 3d' Released By Bethesda
Bethesda Softworks has released a free, browser-based version of the iconic first-person shooter, Wolfenstein 3D.
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