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New York City Takes Aim at AI
The Big Apple fields an action plan for artificial intelligence.
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Failure Cascading Through the Cloud
Two major cloud computing services, Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and Sony's PlayStation Network, recently suffered extended outages. Though the circumstances...
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App-Specific Processors to Fight Dark Silicon
University of California, San Diego researchers working on the GreenDroid project have developed software that scans the Android operating system and its most popular...
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How People Broadcast Their Locations Without Meaning To
Smartphones include geotagging features many people aren't aware of.
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Microsoft Browser Would Offer Personalization Along With Privacy Protection
Microsoft researchers have developed RePriv, a browser that analyzes users' online behavior and controls how their personal information is released to sites that...
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The Botnets That Won't Die
New communications schemes could make zombie PC networks far more difficult to shut down.
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Busting the Botnets
They're the scourge of the Internet—networks containing thousands or even millions of virus-infected, remote-controlled PCs. These so-called "botnets" send out...
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Social Search, Without a Social Network
Google may be built on an algorithm for taming the Web, but yesterday the company added social features that will let your friends help determine what ranks high...
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How Cruise Missiles Would Beat Gps Jammers in Libya
Now that jammers are cheap and potentially ubiquitous, how do Tomahawk missiles stay on course?
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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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Spotting Virtual Intruders
Handing sensitive data over to a cloud computing provider makes many companies skittish. But new software, called HomeAlone, could help them come to terms with...
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Giving Hackers a Printed Invitation
At the Shmoocon conference, researchers demonstrated how hackers are using printers to infiltrate corporate computer networks. Printers are "totally integrated...
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Car Theft by Antenna
A method for breaking into and stealing cars that have keyless entry and starting systems has been found by ETH Zurich researchers, who were able to gain entry...
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'sms of Death' Could Crash Many Mobile Phones
Low-end mobile phones are vulnerable to hackers using short message service (SMS) communications, according to research presented at a recent conference in Germany...
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The Brainy Learning Algorithms of Numenta
How the inventor of the PalmPilot studied the workings of the human brain to help companies turn a deluge of data into business intelligence.
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Raising a Botnet in Captivity
Researchers created their own, imprisoned, network of zombie computers to better learn how to take down those at large on the Internet.
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Tracking Trick Shows the Web Where You Are
A new technique from Microsoft Research Silicon Valley could be used to target advertising to users' surroundings without their knowledge.
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Parc Readies Printed Electronics For Market
Early 2011 will see printed memory devices in toys and printed sensors in packages used to ship drugs.
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New Class of Malware Attacks Specific Chips
Computer scientists reveal malware that attacks specific processors rather than the operating system that runs on them.
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Watch Where You're Going
Businesses are quietly buying mobile-phone data to discover the paths that consumers take.
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