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Cybercriminals Eye Biometrics
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Garmin Finds a New Direction
In the pantheon of seemingly obsolete technologies, automobile navigation devices might seem ready to join laser discs and pagers.
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Commercial Drones: A Dogfight at the Faa
Last fall, Russ Freeman's successful business shooting commercial aerial photos and video flew straight into a political battle over control of the nation's skies...
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Jobs FBI File Notes Drug Use, Tendency to 'Distort Reality'
The Federal Bureau of Investigation released a decades-old file it kept on Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs that noted his past drug use and cites interviews with...
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Who Does Google Think You Are?
A tool tells users what the company infers about your interests and age.
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Steve Ballmer Reboots
They had his dining room waiting. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive and one of the richest men in the world, often eats privately at a Bellevue (Wash.)...
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It's a Man vs. Machine Recovery
The U.S. produces almost one-quarter more goods and services today than it did in 1999, while using almost precisely the same number of workers.
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Spies Fail to Escape Spyware in $5 Billion Bazaar For Cyber Arms
The intelligence operative sits in a leather club chair, laptop open, one floor below the Hilton Kuala Lumpur’s convention rooms, scanning the airwaves for spies...
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Spam Works
Every day three-quarters of all e-mail that flies across the Internet is spam. Some of it tricks customers into installing a virus or forking over personal information...
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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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Voice Control, the End of the Tv Remote?
Before he died on Oct. 5, Steve Jobs left clues that he was working on a new product that would revolutionize how we interact with our TVs. "It will have the...
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Palantir, the War on Terror's Secret Weapon
A Silicon Valley startup that collates threats has quietly become indispensable to the U.S. intelligence community.
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John Rogers's Bendable Microprocessors
John Rogers was in his lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign six years ago, testing new ways to make electronic circuits, when one of his team...
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Cyber Weapons: The New Arms Race
A rash of cyberattacks has raised the profile of such incursions and led to a booming cyberweapons industry.
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Can Supercomputers Help Japan Predict Earthquakes?
Dell Computer and several U.S. universities have provided Japanese researchers with supercomputing capacity following the March 11 earthquake, as rolling blackouts...
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.s. Spy Agency Is Said to Investigate Nasdaq Hacker Attack
The National Security Agency, the top U.S. electronic intelligence service, has joined a probe of the October cyber attack on Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. amid evidence...
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Why There Are So Few Women in Tech
Women with engineering or computer science degrees face a tricky career path at technology companies and often leave their jobs just as they near their career peaks...
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China's Leap in Supercomputer Rankings
When a list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers is released on Nov. 15, some industry experts believe that China will be ranked first. "There's a great belief...
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