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Blurring the line between apps and books
Stephen Elliott, a 38-year-old from San Francisco, just introduced his first piece of software for sale: An app for the iPad and iPhone called "The Adderall Diaries."He's not exactly a programmer - better to call him a writer. And the...
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WikiLeaks, Facebook and the perils of oversharing
The recent release of internal State Department cables by WikiLeaks, assisted by a coalition of news outlets in the United States and Europe, has been viewed as a national security matter -- have confidential sources been compromised? Could relations between...
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Web attackers point to cause in WikiLeaks
They got their start years ago as cyberpranksters, an online community of tech-savvy kids more interested in making mischief than political statements. But the coordinated attacks on major corporate and government Web sites in defense of WikiLeaks, which began on...
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Computers help social animals to see beyond their tribes
IBM researchers in this laboratory nestled next to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have been forced lately to confront a limit on computing power: The human brain just isn't processing data any faster.It's a shame, too, because the brain...
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It's tracking your every move and you may not even know
A favorite pastime of Internet users is to share their location: services like Google Latitude can inform friends when you are nearby; another, Foursquare, has turned reporting these updates into a game.But as a German Green party politician, Malte Spitz,...
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It's tracking your every move and you may not even know
A favorite pastime of Internet users is to share their location: services like Google Latitude can inform friends when you are nearby; another, Foursquare, has turned reporting these updates into a game.But as a German Green party politician, Malte Spitz, recently learned, we are already continually being tracked whether we volunteer to be or not. ...
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Internet blackout drew many more to Cairo protests
For a segment of the young people of Egypt, the date to remember is not when Egyptians first took to the streets to shake off the 30-year rule of Hosni Mubarak. Rather, it is three days later - January 28, 2011 - the day the Internet died, or more precisely, was put to sleep by the Mubarak government.That was when some of them discovered a couple o...
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Wikipedia: Why aren't women contributing?
In 10 short years, Wikipedia has accomplished some remarkable goals. More than 3.5 million articles in English? Done. More than 250 languages? Sure.But another number has proved to be an intractable obstacle for the online encyclopedia: surveys suggest that less than 15 percent of its hundreds of thousands of contributors are women. About a year ag...
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Computers help social animals to see beyond their tribes
IBM researchers in this laboratory nestled next to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have been forced lately to confront a limit on computing power: The human brain just isn't processing data any faster.It's a shame, too, because the brain has never had more material to make sense of: More friendships, that come with more frequent upd...
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Web attackers point to cause in WikiLeaks
They got their start years ago as cyberpranksters, an online community of tech-savvy kids more interested in making mischief than political statements. But the coordinated attacks on major corporate and government Web sites in defense of WikiLeaks, which began on Wednesday and continued on Thursday, suggested that the loosely organized group called...
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Blurring the line between apps and books
Stephen Elliott, a 38-year-old from San Francisco, just introduced his first piece of software for sale: An app for the iPad and iPhone called "The Adderall Diaries."He's not exactly a programmer - better to call him a writer. And the...
-
WikiLeaks, Facebook and the perils of oversharing
The recent release of internal State Department cables by WikiLeaks, assisted by a coalition of news outlets in the United States and Europe, has been viewed as a national security matter -- have confidential sources been compromised? Could relations between...
-
Web attackers point to cause in WikiLeaks
They got their start years ago as cyberpranksters, an online community of tech-savvy kids more interested in making mischief than political statements. But the coordinated attacks on major corporate and government Web sites in defense of WikiLeaks, which began on...
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Computers help social animals to see beyond their tribes
IBM researchers in this laboratory nestled next to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have been forced lately to confront a limit on computing power: The human brain just isn't processing data any faster.It's a shame, too, because the brain...
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It's tracking your every move and you may not even know
A favorite pastime of Internet users is to share their location: services like Google Latitude can inform friends when you are nearby; another, Foursquare, has turned reporting these updates into a game.But as a German Green party politician, Malte Spitz,...
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It's tracking your every move and you may not even know
A favorite pastime of Internet users is to share their location: services like Google Latitude can inform friends when you are nearby; another, Foursquare, has turned reporting these updates into a game.But as a German Green party politician, Malte Spitz, recently learned, we are already continually being tracked whether we volunteer to be or not. ...
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Internet blackout drew many more to Cairo protests
For a segment of the young people of Egypt, the date to remember is not when Egyptians first took to the streets to shake off the 30-year rule of Hosni Mubarak. Rather, it is three days later - January 28, 2011 - the day the Internet died, or more precisely, was put to sleep by the Mubarak government.That was when some of them discovered a couple o...
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Wikipedia: Why aren't women contributing?
In 10 short years, Wikipedia has accomplished some remarkable goals. More than 3.5 million articles in English? Done. More than 250 languages? Sure.But another number has proved to be an intractable obstacle for the online encyclopedia: surveys suggest that less than 15 percent of its hundreds of thousands of contributors are women. About a year ag...
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Computers help social animals to see beyond their tribes
IBM researchers in this laboratory nestled next to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have been forced lately to confront a limit on computing power: The human brain just isn't processing data any faster.It's a shame, too, because the brain has never had more material to make sense of: More friendships, that come with more frequent upd...
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Web attackers point to cause in WikiLeaks
They got their start years ago as cyberpranksters, an online community of tech-savvy kids more interested in making mischief than political statements. But the coordinated attacks on major corporate and government Web sites in defense of WikiLeaks, which began on Wednesday and continued on Thursday, suggested that the loosely organized group called...
