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Huawei Executive Talks About Cyber Security
As the world's second-largest supplier of telecommunications network equipment, Huawei plays a part in the technology industry's efforts to ensure network security...
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N.s.a. Director Gives Firm and Broad Defense of Surveillance Efforts
The director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, said in an interview that to prevent terrorist attacks he saw no effective alternative to...
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Unbreakable Encryption Comes to the U.S.
As revelations about the depth and breadth of the NSA's digital eavesdropping program continue to come to light, Ohio-based Battelle Memorial Institute is rolling...
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Think You Can Live Offline Without Being Tracked? Here's What It Takes
Nico Sell, the cofounder of a secure communication app called Wickr, has appeared on television twice.
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What Last Week's Anti-.s. Shift in Internet Governance Means to You
Last week a group of the Internet's governing organizations announced they were effectively turning their backs on the United States.
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Intel Sees a Future Where We Will Form 'relationships' with Our Gadgets
Rugged individualists aside, many people find themselves increasingly connected not just to one another but also to the devices that make those connections possible...
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Bit By Bit, Virtual Reality Heads For the Holodeck
While sitting in a stuffy Hollywood hotel conference room recently, I plotted my next move outside a snow-covered, ancient castle.
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Here's Everything You Should Know About Nsa Address Book Spying in One Faq
A new report from The Washington Post, based on documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden, reveals that the National Security Agency is collecting hundreds...
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Cyber-Shield: Brazil Announces Govt System to Block Nsa Snooping
Brazil is creating an email system intended to shield the government from NSA spying.
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Yep, Apple's A7 Looks Twice As Fast–at Least For Fractal Math
Is Apple's A7 chip twice as fast at processing and graphics, as Apple promised when announcing the new iPhone 5S?
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All Is Fair in Love and Twitter
Right in the center of South Park, a large, grassy oval near San Francisco's financial district, there is a rinky-dink playground with slides, ladders, and firefighter...
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Mugged By a Mug Shot Online
In March last year, a college freshman named Maxwell Birnbaum was riding in a van filled with friends from Austin, Tex., to a spring-break rental house in Gulf...
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In Digital Era, What Does 'watching Tv' Even Mean?
We spend a full five hours and 16 minutes a day in front of a screen, and that's without even turning on a television.
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And Then Steve Said, 'let There Be an Iphone'
The 55 miles from Campbell to San Francisco make for one of the nicest commutes anywhere.
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Your Digital Trail: Does The Fourth Amendment Protect Us?
Science fiction writers have fantasized for years about the government monitoring everything we do.
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A Google Glass Alternative in Japan
Foreign tourists visiting this city have long encountered translation help.
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Website Maps 1.2 Billion Facebook Faces
Facebook has so many users—more than a billion, or roughly the population of India—that squeezing them all into one Web page seems almost impossible.
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Your Digital Trail, And How It Can Be sed Against You
While the collection of private information by the National Security Agency is under scrutiny worldwide, a remarkable amount of your digital trail is also available...
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Baseball's Beacon Trials Hint at Apple's Location Revolution
As we neared the threshold of the gates in front of the walkway to the home of the New York Mets, a message popped up on developer Chad Evans' space-gray iPhone...
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