The Next Wave of Botnets Could Descend from the Skies
By Robert Lemos The buzz starts low and quickly gets louder as a toy quadricopter flies in low over the buildings. It might look like […]
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Now anyone can design and evolve 3-D printable objects interactively
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tQ6msb7eEeA Forget draft tables and complicated computer-aided design programs: You dream it. Endless Forms helps you design it. Cornell University’s new interactive website EndlessForms.com allows […]
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A Simpler Approach to Online Identity
Even as identity becomes increasingly important online, it is becoming more fragmented, with users signing up for ever more websites and services. Account Chooser, a […]
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2011 ESRI Conference
The 2011 ESRI international conference with an estimated 42,000 attendees from all sectors of public and private industry converged on San Diego this week to […]
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Touch Table
One of the fascinating technologies at the ESRI Conference is the Touch Table. This dining room size table, that some have called the “world’s largest […]
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Norton Cybercrime Report 2011
For the first time a Norton study calculates the cost of global cybercrime: $114 billion annually. Based on the value victims surveyed placed on time […]
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The Cloud Imperative
By Simson L. Garfinkel Before Facebook and Google—even before the Internet—scientists at MIT had a radical vision they called the computer utility. “Computing may […]
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Amazon’s Cloud Gives Its New Browser an Unfair Edge
By Erica Naone Among the features announced with Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet is an unexpected and innovative new piece of software: a Web browser […]
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Cloud Computing Defined
By Simson L. Garfinkel To bring some order to the fuzzy world of cloud computing, the U.S. government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology has […]
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Cell-All: Super Smartphones Sniff Out Suspicious Substances
Jing Li a physical scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center, and associates have developed a tiny gadget that would plug into your iPhone to detect […]
