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  Twitter-powered search helps save carjacking victim

  By Jamie Keene on April 9, 2012 06:56 am + 29 comments

  A Johannesburg man was saved from a carjacking thanks to his assailants forgetting to take his Continue reading…

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  US Federal Reserve joins Twitter

  By Jamie Keene on March 15, 2012 10:57 am + 19 comments

  The US Federal Reserve has joined Twitter, in an effort to improve interaction with the public and Continue reading…

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  IBM's optical chipset prototype crushes competition with 1 terabit per second speed

  By Jeff Blagdon on March 8, 2012 09:47 am + 26 comments

  People are getting some incredible speeds on fiber optic arrays these days, but that's only part of Continue reading…

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  The Pirate Bay will remove most torrent files on February 29th, magnet links taking over

  By Aaron Souppouris on February 13, 2012 07:12 am + 15 comments

  After announcing it planned to move away from the format last month, The Pirate Bay has today given Continue reading…

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  How Activision turned a 'Modern Warfare 3' leak into PR gold

  By Aaron Souppouris on January 19, 2012 05:31 am + 15 comments

  When extensive details on Modern Warfare 3 were leaked by Vox Games' Brian Crecente last May, an Continue reading…

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  Microsoft Research's 'WiFi-NC' taps unused TV spectrum for improved wireless connectivity

  By Bryan Bishop on January 9, 2012 08:13 am + 11 comments

  Researchers at Microsoft have developed a new variant of Wi-Fi that allows wireless transmissions to Continue reading…

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  Wi-Fi Protected Setup attack tools released to public

  By Jeff Blagdon on December 30, 2011 08:20 am + 23 comments

  A lot has happened since we reported on the Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) vulnerability found by Continue reading…

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  186Gbps wide area network created by physicists at SuperComputing 2011

  By Jamie Keene on December 13, 2011 05:55 pm + 9 comments

  At the SuperComputing 2011 conference in Seattle, CERN collaborated with a number of universities to Continue reading…

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  Verizon LTE torture test: Why 4G can't replace your DSL (yet)

  By Sean Hollister on November 23, 2011 01:45 pm + 97 comments

  By Sean Hollister, with Chris Ziegler and Joanna Stern I have a love / hate relationship with Continue reading…

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  DLNA will work with Wi-Fi Direct to stream media without a network

  By Joseph Parish on November 16, 2011 07:20 pm + 12 comments

  Soon, you won't need a router for DLNA streaming — the Digital Living Network Alliance has added Continue reading…