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Learn a Language While You Text
An MIT graduate student's "WaitChatter" app teaches vocabulary during moments in between text and instant-message replies.
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Brain Technology Patents Soar As Companies Get Inside People's Heads
From ways to eavesdrop on brains and learn what advertisements excite consumers, to devices that alleviate depression, the number of U.S. patents awarded for "neurotechnology"...
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The Internet Mapmakers Helping Nepal
The night after the earthquake hit Nepal, people feared to sleep in their homes, worrying about powerful aftershocks toppling the few buildings left standing.
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Facebook Is Eating the Internet
Facebook, it seems, is unstoppable. The social publishing site, just 11 years old, is now the dominant force in American media.
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Security Professionals Stymied by Outdated Visualization Tools
Earlier this year, the film Blackhat got high marks for realistic scenes in which hackers and information security specialists work at their computers to hunt down...
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How Click Farms Have Inflated Social Media Currency
Every Morning, Kim Casipong strolls past barbed wire, six dogs, and a watchman in order to get to her job in a pink apartment building decorated with ornate stonework...
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Air Force's Secret 'Gorgon Stare' Program Leaves Terrorists Nowhere To Hide
In Greek mythology, Gorgons were creatures whose terrible visages could turn men to stone with a single glance.
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Toolkits for the Mind
When the Japanese computer scientist Yukihiro Matsumoto decided to create Ruby, a programming language that has helped build Twitter, Hulu, and much of the modern...
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How ISIS Succeeds on Social Media Where #StopKony Fails
Social networks offer an incredible tool for tapping into the collective unconscious, a virtual Jungian arena in which competition might be expected to amplify...
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Cybercriminals Are Misappropriating Businesses' Web Addresses
Cybercriminals targeting businesses are stealing more than customer passwords and credit-card numbers these days.
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Year Zero: Our Life Timelines Begin
In 10 years, every human connected to the Internet will have a timeline.
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There Is Actually One Thing You Can Do to Fight the Surveillance Machine
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Rivals Google and Apple Fight for the Dashboard
When Google hosted a boot camp here this month for its Android operating system, there were some new faces in the room: auto manufacturers.
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Meet Kevin Ashton, Father of the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things started in the mid-1990s, when a quirky young brand manager in the U.K. puzzled over why a shade of brown lipstick kept disappearing from...
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US Regulators Try to Tame 'Wild West' of DNA Testing
Genetic testing has entered a new realm, with the ability to read a person's genetic code and predict how it will affect his or her health.
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Hoping Google's Lab Is a Rainmaker
Google's research arm, Google X, is called the company's Moonshot Factory. One reason the company picked the word "Moonshot" was to remind people to tackle big...
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Dating Services Tinker with the Algorithms of Love
You may have seen the Parks and Recreation episode where Tom Haverford makes 26 different online dating profiles to increase his odds of matching with every woman...
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Google, Mighty Now, but Not Forever
Technology giants often meet their end not with a bang but a whimper, a slow, imperceptible descent into irrelevancy that may not immediately be reflected in the...
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Darpa Is Developing a Search Engine for the Dark Web
A new search engine being developed by Darpa aims to shine a light on the dark web and uncover patterns and relationships in online data to help law enforcement...
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The Attention Machine
Human attention isn't stable, ever, and it costs us: lives lost when drivers space out, billions of dollars wasted on inefficient work, and mental disorders that...
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Networks Reveal the Connections of Disease
Stefan Thurner is a physicist, not a biologist. But not long ago, the Austrian national health insurance clearinghouse asked Thurner and his colleagues at the Medical...12345678910>>