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  Using Computers To Sort Out Facts From Opinions

  September 26, 2006 — In "information extraction," computers scan text for words and phrases that identify subjects, objects and specific types of information in order to understand the highly variable ways in which human ... > full story
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  Personal Data Protection Vital To Future Civil Liberties

  September 25, 2006 — When micro-sized sensors can enquire our business in a particular neighbourhood, and equally micro-sized agents embedded within our clothing answer on our behalf, what are the risks to our personal ... > full story
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  The Cool Way To Build The World's Fastest Computer

  September 25, 2006 — A University of Sussex scientist and his American colleagues have solved a mystery that limits the performance of the world's fastest computer, the quantum computer, after making an unexpected ... > full story
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  Researchers Reveal 'Extremely Serious' Vulnerabilities In E-Voting Machines

  September 13, 2006 — A group of Princeton computer scientists say they have created demonstration vote-stealing software that can be installed within a minute on a common electronic voting machine. The software can ... > full story
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  Fingerprinting Hackers: Technique Demonstrates Wireless Device Driver Vulnerabilities

  September 12, 2006 — The next time you're sipping a latte and surfing the Net at your favorite neighborhood wireless café, someone just a few seats away could be breaking into your laptop and causing irreparable ... > full story
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  Computer Engineers Create New System To Curb Phishing Fraud

  September 1, 2006 — Carnegie Mellon University Cylab researchers have developed a new anti-phishing tool to protect users from online transactions at fraudulent Web ... > full story
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  Stealth Attack Drains Cell Phone Batteries

  August 29, 2006 — Cell phones that can send or receive multimedia files could be targeted by an attack that stealthily drains their batteries, leaving cellular communications networks useless, according to computer ... > full story
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  The Spin On Spintronics

  August 29, 2006 — That new personal computer is small and super fast, boasts gigabytes of memory, boots up instantly, offers a standby mode that consumes no electric power, and yet keeps programs and data instantly ... > full story
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  First Quantum Cryptographic Data Network Demonstrated

  August 28, 2006 — A joint collaboration between Northwestern University and BBN Technologies of Cambridge, Mass., has led to the first demonstration of a truly quantum cryptographic data network. By integrating ... > full story
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  Cardiff Researchers Discover Online Banking Security Problem

  August 10, 2006 — Two researchers working within Cardiff University's School of Computer Science, Professor Antonia J Jones and Joseph R Rabaiotti, together with a third independent researcher Stuart P Goring, have ... > full story

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