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DARPA Warns: Your Iphone Is a Military Threat
There’s a growing threat to the U.S. military, according to the Pentagon's premier research wing. No, it's not Iran’s nukes or China's missiles. It's the iPads,...
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Defense Department Wants More Control Over the Internet
The U.S. Department of Defense may have funded the research that led to the Internet, but freewheeling innovation created the patchwork of privately owned technology...
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What Should Apple Do with Its Cash?
Apple's soaring with the market Tuesday, topping $530 per share. Not only is Apple soaring in the stock market, the company is also sitting on $98 billion in cash—a...
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Leap Year Blamed For Hicaps Stumble
Today's extra day in February has caused the payment system used by the health industry to crash, preventing 150,000 customers from using private health care cards...
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Garmin Finds a New Direction
In the pantheon of seemingly obsolete technologies, automobile navigation devices might seem ready to join laser discs and pagers.
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Cryptosystems Showing Signs of 'wear and Tear'
It's been an interesting year in the cryptography world, with new attacks on several algorithms, continued problems with hash functions, and the recent research...
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Did the Ap Just Declare War on News Aggregators?
Like virtually every other traditional news entity, the Associated Press newswire has been under pressure for some time from digital media. But this disruptionthe...
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In Attack on Vatican Web Site, a Glimpse of Hackers' Tactics
The elusive hacker movement known as Anonymous has carried out Internet attacks on well-known organizations like Sony and PBS. In August, the group went after its...
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Facebook: The Wimps Will Inherit the Data Center
Unlike Google, Facebook believes the wimps have a future in the data center. As variousacademics and free-thinking startups seek to reinvent the server using ultra...
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How Data Storage Cripples Mobile Apps
The latest smart phones and tablets at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month came with an emphasis on faster processors and compatibility with faster...
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New Chips Help Bring High-Definition Sound to Smartphones and Other Devices
Smartphone owners can surf the Web, pay bills, watch videos, enjoy music, and send email. But while their gadgets have been designed to handle increasing amounts...
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Appeals Court pholds Constitutional Right Against Forced Decryption
A federal appeals court has found a Florida man's constitutional rights were violated when he was imprisoned for refusing to decrypt data on several devices.
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The Coming Entanglement: Bill Joy and Danny Hillis
Digital innovators Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, and Danny Hillis, co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, talk with Scientific American Executive Editor...
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A Law Apple Would Like to Break
These days, it’s hard to find a superlative that adequately describes Apple. But maybe simplest is best: biggest.
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In Back Alleys and Basements, Video Arcades Quietly Survive
The Stockton Tunnel, excavated in 1914, lets San Francisco drivers get between downtown and Fisherman’s Wharf without having to ascend the scarily steep grades...
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Over-the-Air Tv Catches Second Wind, Aided By Web
It's cool to have rabbit ears again.
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More Design Hobbyists, Entrepreneurs Use 3D Printing
Matt Sullivan, a retired soldier, still has trouble explaining his right leg to strangers.
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The DIY Copyright Revolution
It is something of a fluke that copyright law has become so intertwined with our online lives. For most people, the first things that were easy to create and distribute...
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