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Why Has BlackBerry Been Blamed for the London Riots?
The whole of London is taking stock after outbreaks of violence and looting across the capital. Ealing, Camden, Peckham, Clapham, Lewisham, Woolwich, and Hackney...
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Network Effects: Social Media's Role in the London Riots
Facebook and Twitter can fuel uprisings by allowing participants to coordinate action and to see themselves as part of a larger movement.
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Web Tracking Has Become a Privacy Time Bomb
For more than a decade, tracking systems have been taking note of where you go and what you search for on the Web—without your permission. Today many of the personal...
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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Researchers Develop Webcam Tool to Improve Posture of Office Workers
A multidisciplinary team at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has developed a desktop Webcam tool that could help improve the ergonomic posture of office workers...
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Black Hat: Legal Pitfalls of Investigating Mobile
Hackers today are testing mobile devices ever more strenuously, but the work often stands on shaky legal ground, according to Jennifer Granick, an attorney for...
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Building Robots that Understand Human Emotions and Make People Healthier
For most of us, the closest we get to a robot in daily life is a Roomba. But Dr. Cynthia Breazeal, director of the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab...
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Nasa Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing on Mars
Observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars.
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Your Smartphone: A New Frontier For Hackers
Last week, security researchers uncovered yet another strain of malicious software aimed at smartphones that run Google's popular Android operating system. The...
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At a Hacker Conference, Plenty of Friendly Feds
Why are the Feds hobnobbing with hackers? Defcon, a convention of computer hackers here, was crawling with federal agents on Friday. They smiled, shook hands,...
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Your Face
Imagine being able to sit down in a bar, snap a few photos of people, and quickly learn who they are, who their friends are, where they live, what kind of music...
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Diy Spy Drone Sniffs Wi-Fi, Intercepts Phone Calls
What do you do when the target you’re spying on slips behind his home-security gates and beyond your reach? Launch your personal, specially equipped WASP drone—short...
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Can Video Kill the Credit-Card Form?
The days of tediously having to punch in credit-card details whenever you make an online purchase may be numbered, thanks to a new payment system that turns any...
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Beyond Cell Phone Wallets, Biometrics Promise Truly Wallet-Free Future
Ever since Google announced that its Android phones would be equipped with a "digital wallet" that allows users to pay for things simply by touching their phone...
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Shady Rat Hacking Is Not About China
Jeffrey Carr, author of O'Reilly Media's Inside Cyber Warfare, argues that McAfee's supposed revelations about large-scale Chinese hacking attacks are a smokescreen...
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Operation Shady RAT May Be the Biggest Hack in History but Is No Surprise
Anybody involved in the IT and cybersecurity industry knows that every major industry and government agency around the world is under threat of intrusion through...
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Hard-Coded Password and Other Security Holes Found in Siemens Control Systems
A security researcher has uncovered a slew of vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control systems, including a hard-coded password, that would let attackers...
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Mapping the Most Complex Object in the Known niverse
It's paint-by-numbers for neuroscientists. At the Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, researchers have devised a faster way of computing...
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China Aims to Renew Status As Scientific Superpower
China was probably the world's earliest technological superpower, inventing the plow, the compass, gunpowder, and block printing. Then, science in the Middle...
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Major Breakthrough Claimed in Wireless Technology
Dropped calls, unsent texts, painfully slow Internet connections and overcrowded Wi-Fi hot spots have become a bane of modern life. But veteran valley entrepreneur...
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