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Virtual Farm Games Absorb Real Money, Real Lives
Last century's cash crops included tobacco, cotton, and sugar cane. Now we have magic cauliflower and super berries, too—and even though they can't be sold at...
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For Kevin Mitnick, Staying Legal Is Job One
Kevin Mitnick was eager to participate in a social-engineering contest at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas last weekend and was told he would target Microsoft...
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.s. Military Cyberwar: What's Off-Limits?
The United States should decide on rules for attacking other nations' networks in advance of an actual cyberwar, which could include an international agreement...
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Working to Make Combat Soldiers' Lives Easier
In combat, things can be so chaotic and loud that soldiers sometimes aren't even aware they're being shot at.
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A Decade Later, Internet Appliance Dream Is Realized
Ten years ago, the next big thing in tech was supposed to be the Internet appliance: a device that offered tech newbies a simpler and cheaper way to get onto the...
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IBM Names Firefox Its Default Browser
Firefox has become the default browser for nearly 400,000 IBM employees, a big coup for the open-source project during a time of increasing browser competition.
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Japan's Creepy Kid Robots Perfect Pals For Chucky
Japanese engineers have created two robots designed to interact with children and mimic human growth. Researchers say the robots could inform cognitive development...
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Behind the Scenes of Windows Phone 7
The first Windows Phone 7 devices won't hit the market until the holidays. But in various conference rooms here on this Thursday in late May, it's already crunch...
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Microsoft's Xbox Motion Control System Is Kinect
After more than a year of speculation, we finally know what Microsoft's new motion-control system is called. For those that have referred to it for a year as Project...
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Augmented Reality Edges Closer to Mainstream
To an unenlightened observer, Ron Haidenger's demonstration of playing a video game by tilting a piece of cardboard back and forth looks more than a little bit...
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Google Rolls Out Encrypted Web Search Option
Google began offering an encrypted option for Web searchers on Friday and said it planned to roll it out for all of its services eventually.
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MIT Gestural Gloves Bring Back the '80s
Somewhere in your closet there's a pair of gloves straight out of "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo." Well, if you dust them off and fire up your Webcam, you'll have...
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Legal Experts: LimeWire Likely Doomed
A federal court judge has likely dealt a death blow to LimeWire, one of the most popular and oldest file-sharing systems, according to legal experts.
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Jobs: Why Apple Banned Flash from the Iphone
In a rare open letter published Thursday, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has detailed the technological reasons why his company refuses to let Adobe Systems':...
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Intel Powers Its Way Inside the Smart Grid
Intel wants you to take more interest in your energy use but isn't fussy about how you do it. The chip giant has developed a broad strategy to make money on smart...
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Internet's Future on Display at Singularity U.
The Internet of the future is an intelligent network capable of proactively acting on our needs, following us wherever we go, helping provide us with focused health...
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Feds Push For Tracking Cell Phones
Two years ago, when the FBI was stymied by a band of armed robbers known as the "Scarecrow Bandits" that had robbed more than 20 Texas banks, it came up with aconvicted...
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Hacker 'mudge' Gets DARPA Job
Peiter Zatko--a respected hacker known as "Mudge"--has been tapped to be a program manager at DARPA, where he will be in charge of funding research designed toDARPA...
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Cisco Predicts Wireless Data Explosion
If wireless operators thought they'd faced a deluge of data traffic from the iPhone, they haven't seen anything yet, according to a survey from network equipment...
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