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Pentagon to Consider Cyberattacks Acts of War
The Pentagon, trying to create a formal strategy to deter cyberattacks on the United States, plans to issue a new strategy soon declaring that a computer attack...
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Divorce Lawyers' New Friend: Social Networks
Discretion and privacy have become antiquated notions on social networks, and the generous revelation of secrets make some people cringe—though not divorce lawyers...
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New Ways to Exploit Raw Data May Bring Surge of Innovation, a Study Says
Math majors, rejoice. Businesses are going to need tens of thousands of you in the coming years as companies grapple with a growing mountain of data.
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Google Lobbies Nevada to Allow Self-Driving Cars
Google, a pioneer of self-driving cars, is quietly lobbying for legislation that would make Nevada the first state where they could be legally operated on public...
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Engineers Gather, Asking What Makes the City Tick
It was the last Tuesday of the month, and, like clockwork, the geeks arrived in droves.
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The Class That Built Apps, and Fortunes
All right, class, here’s your homework assignment: Devise an app. Get people to use it. Repeat.
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How Credit Card Data Is Stolen and Sold
Last week, after the Sony PlayStation Network was attacked by a group of unknown hackers, Sony's 77 million customers, along with security specialists and government...
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Data Privacy, Put to the Test
To the catalog of corporate "bigs" that worry a lot of us little people, add this: Big Data.
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Google, a Giant in Mobile Search, Seeks New Ways to Make It Pay
In early 2008, in the early days of the iPhone era, Google engineers began noticing something unusual in the search engine’s logs. Owners of these new phones...
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Digging Deeper, Seeing Farther: Supercomputers Alter Science
Inside a darkened theater a viewer floats in a redwood forest displayed with Imax-like clarity on a cavernous overhead screen.
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When There
Information overload is a headache for individuals and a huge challenge for businesses. Companies are swimming, if not drowning, in wave after wave of data—from...
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What Location Data, Exactly, Does an Iphone Reveal?
On Wednesday, security researchers demonstrated that the certain versions of the iPhone and iPad were logging and storing location data about their owners. Long...
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In Online Games, a Path to Young Consumers
Deep into one of her favorite computer games, Lesly Lopez, 10, moves her mouse to click on a cartoon bee. She drags and drops it into an empty panel, creating...
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Busy Job of Judging Video-Game Content to Be Ceded to Machines
The little E's, T's, and M's that appear on the covers of video games get there the old-fashioned way: People working for the Entertainment Software Rating Board...
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The Business Market Plays Cloud Computing Catch-p
The big spenders on technology are businesses and government agencies. They buy about 75% of the computing goods and services sold worldwide. Yet it is increasingly...
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3d Avatars Could Put You in Two Places at Once
If Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson are right, here is what’s in store for you and your avatar very soon, probably within the next five years:
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Cameras Read License Plates, Helping City's Police
When Luis Zeledon was captured by detectives, it was probably safe to say that he had not intended to be found. He was hiding in someone else’s apartment in Queens...
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New Search Technology Is Enhanced With Videos
The line between cyberspace and the physical world is blurring with a new search technology being demonstrated by Autonomy, a British software publisher.
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Ruling Spurs Effort to Form Digital Public Library
Is the tantalizing dream of a universal library dead? Some scholars and librarians across the country fear it may be, now that a federal judge in New York has...
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