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- Aaron Swartz Hacks the Attention Economy
- Attacks on Android Devices Intensify
- Which Countries Grew the Most GM Crops in 2011?
- Image Stabilization Trickles Down
- What's in a Name? For Apple, Millions of Dollars
- Ultrafast Trades Trigger Black Swan Events Every Day, Say Econophysicists
- Charge Your Phone (and Your Car) from Afar
- A Tough Tip for Nano Manipulation
- A 3-D Printed Jawbone
- How Networks of Biological Cells Solve Distributed Computing Problems
A digital guerrilla fighter explains what's wrong with anti-piracy laws, why the Internet and copyright law don't get along, and how he got into politics.
For Aaron Swartz, sharing files on the Internet isn't just fun and profitable. It's existential.
Rising security incidents and poorly defended phones suggest 2012 could be a risky year for smart-phone users.
A recent rise in Android malware—combined with increased efforts to combat the threat—highlight the fact that, just like tech companies, app makers, and users, hackers are fast turning their attention to mobile devices. What's more, experts say, such devices are often configured in ways that make it easier for malware to thrive.
The area used to grow genetically modified crops keeps growing, fueled by rapid increases in developing nations.
Farmers around the world used 160 hectares to grow biotech crops in 2011--12 million more than in 2010--according to a new report by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA), a government and industry funded group that promotes the use of biotechnology in agriculture.
A suite of new cameras offer image stabilization.
Our cameras demand increasingly little of us. Do photography students these days even learn about aperture and shutter speed? Increasingly, they will also be able to ignore admonitions to keep their cameras steady in order to avoid a blurry picture. Image stabilization joins a suite of new lenses and cameras announced this week, at both the high and low ends of the price scale.
Apple may dole out a fortune to use the iPad name in China
Millions of Chinese people want Apple’s products. But one Chinese company wants something quite different from Apple: a billion dollars.
The US financial markets have suffered over 18,000 extreme price changes caused by ultrafast trading, according to a new study of market data between 2006 and 2011
On 6 May 2010, shares on US financial markets suddenly dropped on average by around 10 per cent but in over 300 stocks by more than 60 per cent. Moments later the prices recovered.
Charging systems that send power farther through the air will soon be on sale.
Eric Giler points a remote control at a small black pad leaned up against a wall, and three lamps instantly light up and a tablet computer starts charging. The funny thing is, the devices all sit several feet away from the black pad, which provides power, and aren't plugged in.
New coating promises to turn an atomic force microscope into an even more useful tool.
IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory—where several groundbreaking microscopy tools have been invented—has created a tough new coating for the tip of an atomic force microscope (AFM), a device that can be used to capture nanoscale imagery as the tip is run over a surface on the end of a microscopic cantilever. The coating could expand the range of ways that AFM can be used to include making lithographic masks for electronic manufacturing with features 10 nanometers in size—beyond the limits of traditional processes such as e-beam lithography.
Last June, an 83-year-old woman received an unusual implant.
I’ll set aside, for the moment, the question of whether 3-D printing can revolutionize manufacturing--a topic that Christopher Mims and Tim Maly have already taken up quite effectively in these web pages--and instead point my finger again to one incontrovertible fact: that the technology is yielding incredibly interesting applications. The latest? An 83-year-old Dutch woman has received a 3-D printed lower jaw.
Computer scientists prove that networks of cells can compute as efficiently as networks of computers linked via the internet
Distributed computing is all the rage these days. The idea is to break down computational tasks into convenient chunks and distribute them across a network to a number of computers. The benefits are clear, such as easy, on-demand access to huge computing resources.
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- Kodak's Missed Opportunities
- Google's Blunder Shows Africa Has Ideas Worth Stealing
The area used to grow genetically modified crops keeps growing, fueled by rapid increases in developing nations.
Farmers around the world used 160 hectares to grow biotech crops in 2011--12 million more than in 2010--according to a new report by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA), a government and industry funded group that promotes the use of biotechnology in agriculture.
An intelligent assistant would be the ideal way to deal with remote-control overload.
The world's largest social network is profitable, but fears Google and Apple.
New England gets more website hits, but the Giants get more social buzz.
We need a robust manufacturing sector to create tomorrow's technology.
Although unaffected for now, other surveillance technologies may face similar scrutiny before long.
Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court threw out the conviction of a man sentenced to life imprisonment on the basis that key information used to prosecute him had been illegally obtained.
The social gaming company has added "explosive moments" to make its version of the venerable board more unpredictable, and exciting.
But the fight will continue as supporters try to amend the two pieces of legislation.
The wheels of fate that led the photography company into Chapter 11 began spinning in 1975.
No one is really surprised that Eastman Kodak has filed for bankruptcy protection. What might surprise some people, though, is that the digital camera, the device that led to the company's undoing, was invented at Kodak in 1975. Here is a 2005 piece that includes an interview with the engineer behind it.
The search giant is accused of accessing a startup's database and trying to poach its customers.
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