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Intel's Tiny Wi-Fi Chip Could Have a Big Impact
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Intel's Tiny Wi-Fi Chip Could Have a Big Impact

This month, Intel unveiled a Wi-Fi radio almost completely made of the same sort of transistors that go into one of its microprocessors.

Review: Raspberry Pi
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Review: Raspberry Pi

You can get a lot for $35 these days. It bought me what looks like a credit card-size James Bond gadget prototype but is actually a fully functional computer.

Augmented Reality Is Finally Getting Real
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Augmented Reality Is Finally Getting Real

In the summer of 2009, Yelp quietly added a feature to its iPhone app that blurred the line between the real and the virtual. If you held your handset up and looked...

A Computer Infection That Can Never Be Cured
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A Computer Infection That Can Never Be Cured

French hacker Jonathan Brossard recently developed Rakshasa, software that can be hidden inside the hardware of a PC, creating a backdoor that would allow secret...

Nsa Boss Wants More Control Over the 'net
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Nsa Boss Wants More Control Over the 'net

The U.S. Internet's infrastructure needs to be redesigned to allow the NSA to know instantly when overseas hackers might be attacking public or private infrastructure...

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Gps Weakness Could Enable Mass Smartphone Hacking

Weaknesses in the technology that allows smartphone users to pinpoint themselves on a map, or check into restaurants and bars using apps such as Foursquare, could...

Your Laptop Can Now Analyze Big Data
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Your Laptop Can Now Analyze Big Data

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed GraphChi, a framework for running large-scale computations on one personal computer.  

Spotting Suicidal Tendencies on Social Networks
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Spotting Suicidal Tendencies on Social Networks

University of Tokyo researchers are using Mixi, an online social network with more than 25 million users, to study people who have regular thoughts about suicide...

Statistics ­nmask Phony Online Reviews
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Statistics ­nmask Phony Online Reviews

Searching for hotels in cities they've never visited, people often turn to customer-written reviews on websites such as TripAdvisor. But how do they know those...

The New Science of Computational Advertising
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The New Science of Computational Advertising

University College London researchers recently conducted a review of computational advertising technology and outlined the challenges that it faces.  

What Facebook Knows
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What Facebook Knows

If Facebook were a country, a conceit that founder Mark Zuckerberg has entertained in public, its 900 million members would make it the third largest in the world...

The Antivirus Era Is Over
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The Antivirus Era Is Over

Two weeks ago today, computer security labs in Iran, Russia, and Hungary announced the discovery of Flame, "the most complex malware ever found," according to Hungary's...

5 Transformative Uses For Disney's Touch-Sensitive Technology
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5 Transformative Uses For Disney's Touch-Sensitive Technology

Disney has a new technology, called Touche, that can turn any object, including the human body, into a touch-sensitive surface that recognizes not only when contact...

A Computer Interface that Takes a Load Off Your Mind
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A Computer Interface that Takes a Load Off Your Mind

Conversations between people include a lot more than just words. All sorts of visual and aural cues indicate each party's state of mind and make for a productive...

Gesture Control System Uses Sound Alone
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Gesture Control System Uses Sound Alone

When you learned about the Doppler Effect in high school physics class—the wave frequency shift that occurs when the source of the wave is moving, easily illustrated...

A Stock Exchange For Your Personal Data
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A Stock Exchange For Your Personal Data

The creation of a marketplace for personal information would be a way for people to regain control of their data in the information age, says Hewlett-Packard Labs...

Facebook's Telescope on Human Behavior
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Facebook's Telescope on Human Behavior

One way to describe Facebook is as the most extensive data set on human social behavior that ever was.

How China Blocks the Tor Anonymity Network
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How China Blocks the Tor Anonymity Network

The Tor Project is a free network run by volunteers that hides users locations and usage from surveillance and traffic analysis.

Microsoft Builds a Browser for Your Past
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Microsoft Builds a Browser for Your Past

Mining personal data to discover what people care about has become big business for companies such as Facebook and Google. Now a project from Microsoft Research...

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How a Web Link Can Take Control of Your Phone

A chilling demonstration to a small, packed room at the recent RSA security conference showed how clicking a single bad Web link while using a phone running Google's...
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