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| Scientists Use 'Dark Web' To Track Extremists & Terrorists
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| posted on Sunday, September 16, 2007
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Terrorists and extremists have set up shop on the Internet, using it to
recruit new members, spread propaganda and plan attacks across the
world. The size and scope of these dark corners of the Web are vast and
disturbing. But in a non-descript building in Tucson, a team of
computational scientists are using the cutting-edge technology and
novel new approaches to track their moves online, providing an
invaluable tool in the global war on terror.
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| The Online World Of 'Second Life'
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| posted on Tuesday, September 11, 2007
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Second Life, a three-dimensional world built by hundreds of thousands
of users over the Internet, is also being used for education, meetings,
marketing and more obvious game playing. It’s a wide world with a lot
going on, in multiple languages, and it can be real-life enhancing for
populations who are isolated for physical, mental, or geographic
reasons. But as a petri dish for examining what makes many of us tick,
Second Life reveals just how deep-seated the drive is to fit in, look
good and get ahead in a material world.
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| Storm Worm Dwarfs World's Top Supercomputers
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| posted on Monday, September 03, 2007
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The network of compromised Microsoft Windows computers under the thumb of the criminals who control the Storm Worm
has grown so huge that it now has more raw distributed computing power
than all of the world's top supercomputers, security experts say.
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| IBM Stores Data On Single Atoms
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| posted on Sunday, September 02, 2007
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IBM Corp. has demonstrated how to perform certain computer functions on
single atoms and molecules, a discovery that could someday lead to
processors the size of a speck of dust, the company said Thursday.
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| Are We Living In Someone Else's Computer Simulation?
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| posted on Thursday, August 23, 2007
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I hadn’t imagined that the omniscient, omnipotent creator of the
heavens and earth could be an advanced version of a guy who spends his
weekends building model railroads or overseeing video-game worlds like
the Sims. But now it seems quite possible. In fact, if you accept a pretty
reasonable assumption of Dr. Bostrom’s, it is almost a mathematical
certainty that we are living in someone else’s computer simulation.
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| Tangible Display Makes 3D Images Touchable
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| posted on Tuesday, July 03, 2007
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A system that makes three dimensional images solid enough to grasp has
been unveiled by Japanese firm NTT. It could let businesspeople shake
hands from across the globe or allow museum visitors to feel precious
exhibits that are normally out of reach, the company says.
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| A Tour-de-Force Demo Of Apple's iPhone
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| posted on Saturday, June 23, 2007
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Why is there so much excitement around Apple's new iPhone? What,
exactly, can it do and why, exactly, are the planet's other cell phone
companies bracing themselves for the tsunami it is expected to unleash?
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| How "iGoogle" Can Bring Order To Your Universe
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| posted on Friday, June 15, 2007
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Is your life a mess? Do you have bits and pieces of information
scattered all over your house, desk, wallet, purse, backpack, computer?
Are you looking for an easy way to bring order to your universe? My
brother Wes thinks iGoogle might be the ticket to organizational
nirvana.
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| Ancient Rome Comes Back To Life In Virtual Model
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| posted on Wednesday, June 13, 2007
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ROME - Tourists puzzled by the jumble of buildings in classical and
modern Rome can now find their bearings by visiting a virtual model of
the imperial capital in what is being billed as the world's biggest
computer simulation of an ancient city.
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