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4 Seconds of Body Cam Video Can Reveal a Biometric Fingerprint, Study Says
Researchers say they can have computers examine body camera video footage and accurately identify a person wearing a body-mounted device in about four seconds,a...
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Baer's Odyssey: Meet the Serial Inventor Who Built the World's First Game Console
Even if you're a devoted fan of video games, there's a decent chance you're not familiar with the name Ralph H. Baer.
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Finding an Image with an Image and Other Feats of Computer Vision
"We found that people were searching for squirrels just to favorite them, just to click 'like.' And the same with buses."
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Beyond Gaming, the Vr Boom Is Everywhere—from Classrooms to Therapy Couches
When Oculus almost single-handedly revived the idea of virtual reality from its '90s vaporware grave, it chose the 2012 Electronic Entertainment Expo as the place...
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Prepare For the Part-Time Self-Driving Car
Self-driving AI cars have been a staple in popular culture for some time—any child of the 1980s will fondly remember both the Autobots and Knight Rider's KITT—but...
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Fantasy Footballers and Coaches Rejoice—nfl Players to Wear Rfid Tags
The surveillance society, it seems, is broadening at NFL stadiums.
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Air Force Research: How to se Social Media to Control People Like Drones
Facebook isn't the only organization conducting research into how attitudes are affected by social media.
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Massachusetts High Court Orders Suspect to Decrypt His Computers
Massachusetts' top court ruled, in a 5-2 decision on Wednesday, that a criminal suspect can be ordered to decrypt his seized computer.
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Scotus to Weigh In on When Online Rants Become Criminal Threats
The US Supreme Court on Monday announced that it will consider a case involving a thorny free speech issue in the digital age: at what point does a statement made...
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How to Build a Gesture-Controlled Web Game with Leap Motion
Modern smartphones have helped shed a light on the power of user interfaces that are driven by gesture and touch. It’s increasingly clear that touch will play a...
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Aereo Analysis: Cloud Computing at a Crossroads
The question of whether online broadcast television is to remain in the hands of a stodgy industry that once declared the VCR the enemy is being put directly before...
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Supreme Court Weighing When Online Speech Becomes Illegal Threat
When does an online threat become worthy of criminal prosecution?
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As Human Laws Grapple with Robots, There Are No Easy Answers
There's been a lot of buzz about robots lately.
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Government Wants You to Broadcast Your Driving Data—Eventually
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced that it's finally ready to consider regulations that...
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How the Nsa (may Have) Put a Backdoor in Rsa's Cryptography: A Technical Primer
There has been a lot of news lately about nefarious-sounding backdoors being inserted into cryptographic standards and toolkits.
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Secret Court Declassifies Opinion Providing Rationale For Metadata Sharing
For the first time, the United States' most secret court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), has published its legal rationale as to why the ...
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Ios 7, Thoroughly Reviewed
When we reviewed iOS 6 a year ago, we called it a "spit-and-polish" release and stand by that assessment today.
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Ios and Android Weaknesses Allow Stealthy Pilfering of Website Credentials
A weakness in both the iOS and Android mobile operating systems makes it possible for hackers to steal sensitive user data and login credentials.
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Military Testing Afghan Language Translation Mobiles For U.s. Troops
"How can we communicate?" the alien being asks Captain James Kirk in a vintage edition of Star Trek. "My thoughts ... you are hearing them? This is interesting."...
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