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Negative Effects of Computerized Surveillance at Home: Cause of Annoyance, Concern, Anxiety, and Even Anger
October 8, 2012 To understand the effects of continuous computerized surveillance on individuals, a Finnish research group instrumented ten Finnish households with video cameras, microphones, and logging software ... > full story -
Way, Way Beyond Wrist Radios
October 4, 2012 To believe that technologies once dreamed of in science fiction novels, television shows, and comic strips may one day be a reality, or that real-world technologies might make the fantastic devices ... > full story -
Multi-Photon Approach in Quantum Cryptography Implemented
October 4, 2012 Move over money, a new currency is helping make the world go round. As increasing volumes of data become accessible, transferable and, therefore, actionable, information is the treasure companies ... > full story -
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Android-Based Network Built to Study Cyber Disruptions and Help Secure Hand-Held Devices
October 2, 2012 As part of ongoing research to help prevent and mitigate disruptions to computer networks on the Internet, researchers have turned their attention to smartphones and other hand-held computing ... > full story -
Federal Law Needed to Safeguard 'Digital Afterlives', Expert Argues
September 26, 2012 Federal law ought to play a stronger role in regulating social networking sites by allowing users to determine what happens to their "digital afterlives," an expert ... > full story -
The Original 'Twitter'? Tiny Electronic Tags Monitor Birds' Social Networks
September 20, 2012 A tiny, digital tag provides a first peek at the social lives of small animals. Using the tags to track New Caledonian crows revealed a surprising amount of interaction among the tool-using ... > full story -
Civil Engineers Destroy Test Levee in the Netherlands
September 20, 2012 Civil engineers collapsed a full-scale dike this week in the Netherlands. The test dike was embedded with advanced sensors and traditional measurement instruments, and results of the study are ... > full story -
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Computers Get a Better Way to Detect Threats
September 20, 2012 Computer scientists have developed a technique to automatically allow one computer in a virtual network to monitor another for intrusions, viruses or other kinds of ... > full story -
'Occupy' Movement's Tumultuous Year Yields Rich Research Data
September 17, 2012 The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement marks its one year anniversary on Sept. 17. OWS brought its 99 percent slogan to Wall Street in an effort to show the public's frustration with the elite one ... > full story -
New Tech Stymied by Copyright Law
September 16, 2012 From Napster to iTunes to Pandora, the methods by which the public can obtain and share music have rapidly progressed. Future groundbreaking innovations may need to wait, though, as the next ... > full story
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