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It turns out that Germany, Europe's most outspoken critic in the wake of U.S. snooping revelations, has itself used a National Security Agency spying program and collaborated with the NSA on surveillance. Takes one to know one. Germany's foreign intelligence service, called the "BND," and its dome...
A day after announcing that it has begun shipping to early backers, Leap Motion on Monday officially launched its widely anticipated gesture control system for the PC and Mac. The system had been delayed for several months but will finally arrive in stores next week. As part of officially launching ...
This could just as easily be "Beating Microsoft 101" or "Beating ARM 101" -- basically how to beat any vendor that is dominant in a particular market. There is a way to beat a dominant vendor, but it's almost never by chasing that vendor from behind. Apple didn't beat Microsoft by tying to build a b...
The International Lunar Observatory Association and Moon Express have definitively announced the first mission to the Moon's south pole, tentatively scheduled for 2016. It will involve delivering the International Lunar Observatory to Malapert Mountain, a roughly 3-mile-high rise on the surface of...
A group of countries in Latin America seems to have successfully blocked online retail giant Amazon from using ".amazon" as an Internet address suffix. A committee from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees top-level domain names, recommended that .amazon be preclud...
Biologists are using a novel blend of technology and data sharing to track endangered wildlife. A new report details the results of about five years of experiments in tracking the vocal activity of birds, frogs, insects and mammals. Researchers set up an automated remote biodiversity monitoring netw...
Google, which is fighting government requests for data in two courts and demanding greater transparency in the wake of the brouhaha over the NSA's PRISM program, reportedly also is experimenting with encrypting files on Google Drive. Some files may already have been encrypted. In related news, a co...
You may be surprised by how much money you can save by moving your wireless plan over to a no-contract Mobile Virtual Network Operator, called an "MVNO." It's particularly worth exploring the possibility of dropping your existing postpaid major carrier contract at renewal if you're an occasional use...
There's been a standard for super-fast SD cards for two years now, but signs of products deploying the technology have been absent. That is, they were absent until Tuesday, when Toshiba announced plans to deliver a new line of SD cards using UHS-II technology to the market this fall. That gives devi...
A wearable tech device that could make it easier for dogs to communicate with their handlers is in development at the Georgia Institute of Technology. FIDO, or Facilitating Interactions for Dogs with Occupations, could have far-reaching practical applications. It could improve communications with gu...
Indefatigable tech pioneer Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla electric car fame is poised to publish the alpha design of his proposed "Hyperloop" futuristic transportation technology. Hyperloop would be immune to weather, travel three to four times faster than a bullet train or twice the average speed of...
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