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Stores Sniff Out Smartphones to Follow Shoppers
You've just tossed a jar of peanut butter in your grocery cart when your smartphone buzzes.
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Exploring Public Perceptions of Future Wearable Computing
Georgia Tech researchers have conducted a case study on interaction with on-body technology in public. The team's findings suggest that scientists should focus...
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Enhancing Security in Apple Devices
Apple addressed some complicated security issues before releasing iOS 7 in September, thanks to A*STAR's Institute for Infocomm Research.
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New Game App Keeps Teens on Track Taking Their Asthma Medicine
Researchers at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago are testing a game-based asthma application designed for teenagers. Young people seem to be responding...
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Ads Could Soon Know If You're an Introvert (on Twitter)
Trying to derive a person's wants and needs—conscious or otherwise—from online browsing and buying habits has become crucial to companies of all kinds.
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Nest's Tony Fadell on Smart Objects, and the Singularity of Innovation
Tony Fadell is the founder and chief executive of Nest, a company that is trying to bring a high-end technology experience to some of the most prosaic areas of...
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Wireless Device Converts 'lost' Energy Into Electric Power
Duke University researchers have developed a power-harvesting device that wirelessly converts a microwave signal to direct current voltage capable of recharging...
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Five Fascinating Things Revealed By Twitter Data
When technology companies get floated on the stock market, it prompts all kinds of analytical soul searching.
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As Interest Fades in the Humanities, Colleges Worry
On Stanford University’s sprawling campus, where a long palm-lined drive leads to manicured quads, humanities professors produce highly regarded scholarship on...
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Ditch the Pedometer – the AI in Your Phone Is Better
Smartphones can do a better job measuring the energy you expand during the day than today's wearable activity monitors, according to Amit Pande from the University...
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The Highs and Hazards of Bitcoin
Bitcoin, the leading online alternative currency, has attracted high-minded entrepreneurs and crooks alike.
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3-D Scanning Mobile App Makes It Easier to 3-D Print
Microsoft Research has developed a mobile app designed to make it easier and less expensive to create and print three-dimensional (3-D) content.
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How a Grad Student Trying to Build the First Botnet Brought the Internet to Its Knees
On November 3, 1988, 25 years ago Sunday, people woke up to find the Internet had changed forever.
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Wearable Gadgets Transform How Companies Do Business
Big companies are putting wearables to work.
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Who Has the Right to Know Where Your Phone Has Been?
You probably know, or should know, that your cellphone is tracking your location everywhere you go.
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Genome Hacker ncovers Largest-Ever Family Tree
Using data pulled from online genealogy sites, a renowned 'genome hacker' has constructed what is likely the biggest family trees ever assembled.
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Fifth Amendment Prohibits Compelled Decryption, New EFF Brief Argues
Encryption is one of the most important ways to safeguard data from prying eyes.
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It's Time For Smartwatches!
Smartwatches are moving from science fiction to reality, but there are questions on whether they will become a part of mainstream computing.
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