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Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses
If you venture into a coffee shop in the coming months and see someone with a pair of futuristic glasses that look like a prop from "Star Trek," don’t worry.
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Watching and Waiting
It is called an advanced persistent threat, and if it sounds like something out of a Tom Clancy novel, that's because it pretty much is.
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How China Blocks the Tor Anonymity Network
The Tor Project is a free network run by volunteers that hides users locations and usage from surveillance and traffic analysis.
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Self-Sculpting Sand
Imagine that you have a big box of sand in which you bury a tiny model of a footstool.
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Apple's War on Android
In her black robe and strand of white pearls, Lucy Koh projects the serious, deliberate demeanor befitting a U.S. District Court judge.
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How Facebook 'contagion' Spreads
To join Facebook or not to join Facebook? You might think the decision depends on how many of your friends are already on the social-networking site.
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Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool
Law enforcement tracking of cellphones, once the province mainly of federal agents, has become a powerful and widely used surveillance tool for local police officials...
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A Computer Screen You Can Fold
University of Toronto researchers have developed a less-expensive method of making flat-panel displays that could lead to computer screens that can be rolled up...
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The Philosopher Whose Fingerprints Are All Over the Ftc's New Approach to Privacy
A mile or two away from Facebook's headquarters in Silicon Valley, Helen Nissenbaum of New York University was standing in a basement on Stanford's campus explaining...
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'mount Sharp' on Mars Links Geology's Past and Future
One particular mountain on Mars, bigger than Colorado's grandest, has been beckoning would-be explorers since it was first sighted from orbit in the 1970s.
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The '80s Called, and They Want Their Cellphones Back
Julie Barbour-Issa calls her eight-year-old cellphone "the dinosaur. It's a brick, and I could use it as a weapon in an emergency," says the 30-year-old Norwood...
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Eye-Tracking Computers Will Read Your Thoughts
Consider, for a moment, the following list: Republican. Abortion. Democrat. Future. Afghanistan. Health care. Same-sex marriage.
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Online Attribution of the French Killer
Mohammed Merah, the culprit of the killing of 7 people in France last week, was found using a mix of traditional and online forensics.
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Global Manhunt Will Leverage Social Media to Find 'suspects'
If you had to track down fugitives hidden in five cities around the world, would one day and a $5,000 reward be enough to succeed?
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Controversy Surrounds Russia's Claim that Cosmic Rays Caused Mars Mission Failure
A heartbreaking, out-of-the-gate failure of Russia's sample return mission early this year created a wide circle of disappointment.
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The Spanish Link in Cracking the Enigma Code
A pair of rare Enigma machines used in the Spanish Civil War have been given to the head of GCHQ, Britain's communications intelligence agency.
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Protesters See Tweets Used Against Them
When Jeff Rae was arrested last October with hundreds of other Occupy Wall Street protesters during a march on the Brooklyn Bridge, he decided to fight the charges...
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The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs
His saga is the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large: Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents' garage in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned to rescue it from...
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Microsoft Builds a Browser for Your Past
Mining personal data to discover what people care about has become big business for companies such as Facebook and Google. Now a project from Microsoft Research...
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