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Cybersecurity Protects Food, Agriculture
Protecting the U.S. food supply from cyberattack.
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Big Patent Firm Sues Nine Tech Firms
Technology companies on Wednesday received troubling news that some had feared for years: Intellectual Ventures LLC has started suing.
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Suit to Snuff Out 'history Sniffing' Takes Aim at Tracking Web sers
A lawsuit filed last Friday for alleged use of "history sniffing," a method for surreptitiously detecting what websites a person has visited, is the latest to...
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IBM Claims Breakthrough in Laser-Based Chips
IBM recently announced a breakthrough in the development of silicon-based chips that send data using pulses of laser light. IBM says the research sets the stage...
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Race Is On to 'fingerprint' Phones, Pcs
David Norris wants to collect the digital equivalent of fingerprints from every computer, cellphone and TV set-top box in the world.
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Shunned Profiling Technology on the Verge of Comeback
One of the most potentially intrusive technologies for profiling and targeting Internet users with ads is on the verge of a comeback, two years after an outcry...
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Insurers Test Data Profiles to Identify Risky Clients
Life insurers are testing an intensely personal new use for the vast dossiers of data being amassed about Americans: predicting people's longevity.
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Google Battles to Keep Talent
Google Inc. is fighting off Facebook Inc. and other fast-growing Internet firms that are poaching its staff, a reversal for a company that has long been one of...
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Sensing a Parking Spot
In the first taste of a technology that could transform the way people park their cars in the city, Roosevelt Island is installing a system of sensors designed...
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On the Threshold of the Avatar Era
Humanity is technologically on the brink of the avatar era, in which it becomes possible for people to virtually embody digital avatars that are not restricted...
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Limewire Told to Shut
Popular file-sharing website LimeWire has been ordered to permanently shut down six months after a federal judge found it liable for copyright infringement on...
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Wiring The Brain to Aid People With Paralysis
Scientists are reporting progress in their efforts to channel brain waves to power mechanical devices, a development that could someday help paralyzed people...
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Engineering, Computer-Science Pay More Than Liberal Arts
Computer science and engineering graduates generally have significantly higher starting salaries than liberal arts majors, according to a Wall Street Journal and...
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A Web Pioneer Profiles sers By Name
In the weeks before the New Hampshire primary last month, Linda Twombly of Nashua says she was peppered with online ads for Republican Senate hopeful Jim Bender...
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Microsoft's Top Visionary To Leave as Ranks Shift
Ray Ozzie, the executive who became Microsoft Corp.'s top technical visionary after the retirement of cofounder Bill Gates, plans to leave the software company...
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Facebook in Privacy Breach
Top-ranked applications transmit personal IDs, a Journal investigation finds.
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'scrapers' Dig Deep For Data on Web
At 1 a.m. on May 7, the website PatientsLikeMe.com noticed suspicious activity on its "Mood" discussion board. There, people exchange highly personal stories...
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One Goal: 10 Quadrillion Calculations
Installation has begun in Kobe, Japan, on a government-funded supercomputer project, aimed at giving Japan the world's fastest computer, the "K Computer," which...
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Inventions Ease the Plight of Trapped Miners
From copper-fibersocks to fiber-optic cable, innovation and improvisation make time more bearable for 33 Chilean.
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