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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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The Man Who Keeps Facebook Humming
Jay Parikh is happy to never get a call from Mark Zuckerberg. Why? It means he's doing his job well. As the vice president of infrastructure engineering at Facebook...
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How the White House Is Aiming the X Prize Model at Big Problems
The U.S. government recently held Collaborative Innovation: Public Sector Prizes, a one-day forum in which public-sector employees, as well as representatives from...
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Browser Choice: A Thing of the Past?
Like to pick your browser? Beware, because new mobile devices threaten to stifle the competitive vigor of the market for Web browsers on PCs.
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FBI: We Need Wiretap-Ready Web Sites
The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require the firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build...
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Global Manhunt Will Leverage Social Media to Find 'suspects'
If you had to track down fugitives hidden in five cities around the world, would one day and a $5,000 reward be enough to succeed?
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The Robots Are Coming! Better Get Used to It
For those of you reluctant to welcome our new robot overloads, it might be time to reconsider your stance.
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Jeff Jaffe Lights a Fire nder Web Standardization
It's been an action-packed two years since Jeff Jaffe took over as the World Wide Web Consortium's chief executive, but more action is the order of the day at...
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Why the Security Industry Never Actually Makes s Secure
Every year, security vendors gather at the RSA conference here to reaffirm their commitment to fencing out hackers and keeping data safe. And every year, corporate...
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In the World of Big Data, Privacy Invasion Is the Business Model
Recent weeks have seen a lot of (overdue) talk about privacy and technology. There was theflap over Path and other mobile apps uploading your phone's address books...
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Why 'big Data' Is a Magnet For Startups
Armies of entrepreneurs are trying to make money sifting through mountains of data from the Web and other sources, but one of the biggest challenges is simply getting...
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Patent Grants Hit All-Time High in 2011; Ibm Leads the Way
Patents were a hot-button issue in 2011, so there's no wonder so many companies were filling their portfolios with new intellectual property all year.
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Flash: Crippled But Alive... For Now
Today, Adobe confirmed that it's extinguishing the Flash Player plug-in for mobile devices.
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Schmidt Avoids a Gates-Like Disaster in D.c.
Eric Schmidt cut a confident figure today prior to his testimony before U.S. lawmakers, who later appeared determined to find out if Google abuses its supremacy...
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The America Invents Act and the Individual Inventor
Much has been said about how the newly passed patent reform legislation, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, benefits large corporations. While that argument...
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How Ibm's 5150 Pc Shaped the Computer Industry
Most people in the Western world walk around with a powerful computer in their pocket or purse, otherwise known as a smartphone. It's not unusual to see someone...
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Microsoft Opens Garage to Spark Innovation
It's typical for Microsoft to show off its latest wares at its annual Worldwide Partner Conference, if only to amp up partners' enthusiasm for hawking the software...
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Google+ Contributor and Mac Pioneer Talks with CNET
Thirty years ago, Andy Hertzfeld was a young computer engineer working at Apple Computer on the first Macintosh under the leadership of Steve Jobs. As Jobs had...
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Apple's New Multitouch Patent (faq)
Apple picked up a patent Tuesday that could come in very handy in today's thicket of smartphone-related intellectual property litigation.
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Can Wireless Networks Support the Promise of the 'cloud'?
Google, Apple, and Amazon are pushing more and more of your entertainment, your data—heck, your life—into the cloud. But what's it mean for the wireless network...
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