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Poker Bots Invade Online Gambling
Bryan Taylor, 36, could not shake the feeling that something funny was going on. Three of his most frequent opponents on an online poker site were acting oddly...
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Taking Control of Cars From Afar
Researchers who have spent the last two years studying the security of car computer systems have revealed that they can take control of vehicles wirelessly.
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Data Mining: How Companies Now Know Everything About You
Three hours after I gave my name and e-mail address to Michael Fertik, the CEO of Reputation.com, he called me back and read my Social Security number to me....
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Ex-Googlers Penetrating Silicon Valley Startup Hierarchy
It may be too soon to equate the "Xooglers," as members of the ever-expanding network of ex-Google employees call themselves, with the "PayPal Mafia"—the founders...
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Can You Judge a Person by an Email Address?
Gmail users are thinner, younger; AOL users older, overweight, study says.
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Researchers Show How a Car's Electronics Can Be Taken Over Remotely
With a modest amount of expertise, computer hackers could gain remote access to someone's car—just as they do to people's personal computers—and take over the...
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Cyberattack-Alert System Could Be Model For U.s.
Washington is in the process of deploying a statewide system that will provide early warnings about cybersecurity threats to participating organizations and the...
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Researchers 'kinect' Data to Make Faster Diagnoses
University of Minnesota researchers are using an Xbox Kinect as a part of a medical tool that produces diagnoses of mental disorders in small children, including...
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Mark Zuckerberg's 650 Million Friends (and Counting)
Back in June 2009, the globe's potpourri of social-networking sites was dazzlingly diverse: Google's Orkut dominated India and Brazil; Central and South America...
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GPS Chaos: How a $30 Box Can Jam Your Life
Signals from GPS satellites now help you to call your mother, power your home, and even land your plane – but a cheap plastic box can jam it all.
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Tv's Next Wave: Tuning In to You
The television is channeling you. Data-gathering firms and technology companies are aggressively matching people's TV-viewing behavior with other personal data—in...
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Software Progress Beats Moore
One of the old jokes in computing is that what the hardware giveth, the software taketh away.
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Freaks, Geeks, and Gdp
Why hasn't the Internet helped the American economy grow as much as economists thought it would?
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Silicon Valley's Innovators Take Aim at Your Wallet
Hang on to your wallets and purses. In the constant search for the next thing to disrupt, Silicon Valley's entrepreneurs and venture capitalists believe that...
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Professor Gets Computing's 'Nobel'
Harvard University professor Leslie G. Valiant, an artificial intelligence pioneer, has been awarded ACM's 2010 A.M. Turing Award. Valiant's research was the...
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Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software
When five television studios became entangled in a Justice Department antitrust lawsuit against CBS, the cost was immense. As part of the obscure task of "discovery"—providing...
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Go for It on Fourth Down? Ask Coach Watson
If humans can't beat a computer at "Jeopardy!" why should we trust them to make the right call on fourth down in the Super Bowl? That was the fundamental question...
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Data as Art: 10 Striking Science Maps
The computer age triggered a seemingly endless stream of scientific data, but such incoming mountains of information come at a cost. The more data you amass,...
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World Mobile Data Traffic to Explode by Factor of 26 by 2015
Anyone who thinks that the Internet revolution is in anything but its early phase had better take a look at Cisco's latest Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast.
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