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Egypt Comes To Google Street View

Egypt Comes To Google Street View

Built in the first half ot he 19th century, the Muhammad Ali Mosque's Ottoman styling broke with traditional Egyptian architecture. Google Ancient meets ultra-modern today on Google Street View, as several of Egypt's most popular monuments premiere on the service. Viewers around the world can now fe

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Rethinking The Turing Test

Rethinking The Turing Test

At a competition in June, a chatbot named Eugene duped a group of human judges into believing it was a Ukrainian teenager. The judges hailed it as the first time a machine passed the Turing Test—that hallowed measure of artificial intelligence (AI) proposed by computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950.

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Making Innovation

Making Innovation

Visitors to the Crosspointe Rolls-Royce facility in Prince George County, Virginia, have to don safety glasses and steel-tipped shoes, just as they would at any traditional factory. But then things start to look different. Past the cubicles filled with programmers and support staff sits a 140,000-sq

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Planck spacecraft shows no evidence to support BICEP2 results

Planck spacecraft shows no evidence to support BICEP2 results

New data from the European Space Agency’s Planck satellite spell more trouble for the claimed discovery of ripples in the fabric of space created moments after the Big Bang. The Planck data strongly suggest that dust in the Milky Way galaxy might account for the entire signal interpreted as gravitat

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Like Sassy Teenagers, Atoms Talk Back

Like Sassy Teenagers, Atoms Talk Back

If you talk to an artificial atom, it turns out the atom will say something back to you. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to hear it. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have communicated with an artificial atom in a lab. When they fed their atom extremely high frequency sound

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We Can Fly to the Moon, but We Can't Secure the Cloud?

We Can Fly to the Moon, but We Can't Secure the Cloud?

Apple is the most profitable consumer tech company in the world, with billions of dollars in the bank -- so much that it's in the middle of a US$130 billion effort to return profits to shareholders. Yet the company can't seem to be bothered to imagine that iCloud user accounts could be compromised b

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XSS Flaw Burns a Hole in Kindle Security

XSS Flaw Burns a Hole in Kindle Security

Honesty Is the Best Policy People who download pirated e-books are at greatest risk, according to Mussler. "The biggest problem is reserved for those grabbing files from freebie download sites they haven't heard of, or random torrents," Chris Boyd, malware intelligence analyst at Malwarebytes, told

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Bad News Hounds Apple Days Before iPhone Gala

Bad News Hounds Apple Days Before iPhone Gala

A US$5 stock drop, a hacker attack on celebrities using your cloud, and charges of worker abuse in the factory of an overseas supplier aren't the kind of news a company wants to see as it's poised to announce a refresh of its iconic product, but that's what Apple must deal with this week. The Labor

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Yahoo wins battle in secretive surveillance court

Yahoo wins battle in secretive surveillance court

Yahoo (YHOO, Tech30) said Thursday it won release of 1,500 pages of documents filed in a secretive surveillance court. It said the documents stem from an unsuccessful lawsuit it brought in 2008 challenging the government's right to demand user information. The company won a victory last year when po

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Apple's plan to change how you pay for everything

Apple's plan to change how you pay for everything

That's the vision Apple (AAPL, Tech30) set forth with Apple Pay, a wireless, digital wallet that is coming out in October. To pay for stuff at a store, just put your finger on the iPhone's fingerprint sensor and it hold it up to the register. Beep. You're done. Want to pay for something in an app? J

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OPAP contracts Innotech

OPAP contracts Innotech

OPAP contracted Innotech Innovative Technologies as a technical consultant. Also innotech already performs part of the copywriting and multi-lingualisation for the on-line platform that comes up this year.

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