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Iran Hijacked .s. Drone, Says Iranian Engineer
Iran guided the CIA's "lost" stealth drone to an intact landing inside hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-known to the U.S. military...
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Brain-Computer Interface Plays Music Based on Person's Mood
A brain-computer interface that plays music based on the mental state of the user is the focus of a new four-year project by researchers at the universities of...
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Meet Sopa Author Lamar Smith, Hollywood's Favorite Republican
Rep. Lamar Smith, whose congressional district in Texas encompasses the cropland and grazing land stretching between Austin and San Antonio, might seem like an...
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Cities Fail to Recognize Full Potential of Smart Technologies
Opening up data and digital assets is critical to accelerating low-carbon cities, according to a recent University of Nottingham report.
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Carrier Iq Gets Transparent About Its Mobile Monitoring
It's been a tumultuous few weeks for Carrier IQ, the mobile analytics outfit at the center of a continuing privacy brouhaha over what its diagnostic software...
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Flight of the Warbots
How a save-the-earth maker of solar-powered aircraft became the world's most prolific manufacturer of military drones.
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The Cyber Security Industrial Complex
Documents point to a huge industry that provides online surveillance tools to governments and police agencies.
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Cyber-Intruder Sparks Massive Federal Response
The 2008 discovery that a rogue program had penetrated a classified U.S. military network containing sensitive secrets by piggybacking on a thumb drive has had...
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What Is the Higgs Boson and Why Does It Matter?
As the world awaits news of the possible discovery of the Higgs boson, there remains a lot of confusion about what it is, why we have had to work hard to find...
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It Won't Be Easy For Iran to Dissect, Copy .s. Drone
Prepare the dissection table. Iran says it’s planning to disassemble its prized acquisition: a CIA-operated drone that apparently crashed in its territory. Its...
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Face Recognition Technology Comes to Malls and Nightclubs
The privacy concerns around the tracking of consumers and targeted advertising online may be coming to the physical world.
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Iranian Armed Forces to Simulate U.s. Rq-170 Drone
A senior parliamentarian underlined Tehran's advanced technological capabilities and possibilities, and said the Iranian Armed Forces intend to simulate the design...
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Look, p in the Sky! It's a Drone, Looking at You
Unmanned aircraft—or drones—are playing a large role in U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, but they're starting to show up the the skies above the U.S....
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Software That Listens for Lies
Several linguists, engineers, and computer scientists are developing computer systems that can recognize signs of emotional speech, such as deception, anger, friendliness...
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Drone Crash in Iran Reveals Secret .s. Surveillance Effort
The stealth C.I.A. drone that crashed deep inside Iranian territory last week was part of a stepped-up surveillance program that has frequently sent the United...
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Pentagon Fast-Tracks Hacker Research
The Pentagon has long had a love-hate relationship with computer hackers: On the outside, they can infiltrate vulnerable defense networks. On the inside, they...
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Health Care Innovation Challenge
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently launched its Health Care Innovation Challenge, with as much as $1 billion in grant funding being offered...
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Computer Scientists May Have What It Takes to Help Cure Cancer
Computer scientists should be signing up in droves to fight cancer because they may have the best skills to help cure the disease, writes University of California...
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Real, Artificial Brains Make Magical Music
College of Charleston researchers have developed Monterey Mirror, an interactive music performance system. When a musician plays a piece of music, Monterey Mirror...
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