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Emerging Tech
Can Europe Be a Leading Tech Power?
Andrus Ansip, Europe's Digital Market Commissioner hopes to make that happen.
Emerging Tech
Life-Saving 'Undo Send' Feature Now Official Part of Gmail
One of the most life-saving software tweaks ever invented.
Emerging Tech
A Brief Guide to the Fantastic, Wondrous Creatures of Tech Industry Jargon
First came the unicorns. Then came the decacorns. Now people are talking about dragons, centaurs and even ponies.
Digital Government
Why Apple Is Suddenly So Obsessed With Your Privacy
Apple claims it does not pass along your data to third parties or use it to profile you.
Cybersecurity
You Can Now Protect Your Facebook Messages From Snooping Eyes
The social network has added another layer of security for the cautious: encrypted notification emails.
Modernization
How to Use Mobile Phone Data for Good Without Invading Anyone’s Privacy
Call-data records show the true nature of social networks and human movement.
Modernization
There’s One Part of the Tech Industry that Mobile Is Not Disrupting
Criminals and other malicious actors tend to prefer more traditional means to break into networks than mobile devices.
Modernization
The Many Americans Who Only Use Smartphones to Go Online
One in five adults in the United States connects to the Internet without desktops or laptops.
Modernization
Why the Mobile Industry Wants to Kill the Password
As data rather than voice or text becomes the big reason people use their mobile phones, networks want to extract more value from their users.
Digital Government
How American and British Spies Hacked the World’s Largest SIM-Card-Maker
Mass surveillance has cast its net even wider than previously thought.
Digital Government
Why the Top-Level Domain Revolution Fizzled Out
Dot-com and dot-net continued to raked up nearly 26 million new domain registrations in the first nine months of 2014.
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Digital Government
The Search Engine of the Future Will be All-Seeing, All-Knowing ‘Watcher in the Sky’
Search as envisioned in the 1990s is no longer fit for purpose.
Emerging Tech
5 Tech Predictions You Should Actually Pay Attention To
January may be coming to a close, but the flood of predictions, forecasts, and prognostications for the year ahead hasn’t abated. Here are the important ones.
Digital Government
Why Fewer Americans Are Googling Things
People who are coming online now are getting used to a world in which they go to apps rather than a browser to look for something.
Modernization
How Even the Remotest Parts of the World Are Getting Mobile Coverage
A new device is using regular radio spectrum to connect to mobile phones in its area.
Artificial Intelligence
Why Robots Won't Take Over the World Anytime Soon
Efforts to develop artificial intelligence continue apace, with major computer science research and development facilities devoting time, energy, and money to making computers behave like humans.
Cybersecurity
Survey: Americans Do Care About Online Privacy After All
Yet, the idea that people simply do not care about privacy remains entrenched.
Modernization
China Poised to Dominate E-Commerce by 2018
One of the factors that helps drive rising e-commerce sales is consumer confidence.
Cybersecurity
CEOs, Beware -- Someone is Snooping on You Using Hotel Wi-Fi
The attackers use hotel Wi-Fi to prompt people to download updates for software such as Adobe Flash, Google Toolbar and Microsoft Messenger. The updates are in fact malware.
Modernization