Government Aims to Build a ‘Data Eye in the Sky’
By John Markoff More than 60 years ago, in his “Foundation” series, the science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov invented a new science — psychohistory — […]
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Malware in the Office, in the Sky and on the Phone
By Richard Adhikari October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and it’s being rung in for federal agencies […]
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Cyberthreats Rise as Federal Agencies’ Defenses Slip
By John K. Higgins Information technology vendors who can provide productive ways to protect against cybersecurity threats should find a welcome market among federal agencies. […]
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Brain linked to robotic hand; success hailed
By David Templeton When it happened, emotions flashed like lightning. The nearby robotic hand that Tim Hemmes was controlling with his mind touched his girlfriend […]
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Wired Petri Dish Gives Real-Time Updates
By Katharine Gammon A new prototype petri dish can create an image of what’s growing on it and send that information to a laptop, all […]
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Raytheon Shows the Army a Universal Translator App
By Spencer Ackerman It’s been a white whale for the Army during a decade at war: building a translator that can let English-only troops communicate […]
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Begun, These Army Phone Wars Have
By Spencer Ackerman After 20 years, the Army has finally figured out how it wants to network soldiers together in a warzone: through something like […]
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Homeland Security moves forward with ‘pre-crime’ detection
By Declan McCullagh An internal U.S. Department of Homeland Security document indicates that a controversial program designed to predict whether a person will commit a […]
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Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet
Image credit: Wired By Noah Shachtman A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they […]
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Can an Open Cloud Compete?
By Michael Fitzgerald The OpenStack Foundation, announced at the OpenStack conference in Boston, will maintain a suite of free software tools for building and managing […]
