I Want It, and I Want It Now – It’s Time for Instant Gratification
The business of bringing people what they want, when they want it, is booming.

August 4, 2014 at 5:03PM
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Israel, Gaza, War & Data
On social networks and the art of personalizing propaganda.

August 4, 2014 at 4:48PM
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Watch This Wireless Hack Pop a Car’s Locks in Minutes
Shims and coat hangers are the clumsy tools of last century’s car burglars. Modern-day thieves, if they’re as clever as Silvio Cesare, may be able to unlock your vehicle’s door without even touching it.

August 4, 2014 at 4:10PM
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We Can Now Reconstruct Sound From Silent Video Of Inanimate Objects
They look like still images, but movements of less than a thousandth of a pixel, passed through a complex algorithm, are used here to recover gritty but totally comprehensible sound.

August 4, 2014 at 1:56PM
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Can Google Build A Typeface To Support Every Written Language?
Google has taken on its fair share of ambitious projects — digitizing millions and millions of books, mapping the whole world, pioneering self-driving cars. But one recent effort, despite its rather lofty scope, has escaped much notice.

August 4, 2014 at 1:39PM
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NFL Is Using Locked Down Surface Tablets on the Sidelines
As part of a $400 million, five-year deal with Microsoft that was announced last year, NFL teams are using stripped-down versions of Surface tablets on the sidelines and in the coaches’ booths upstairs.

August 4, 2014 at 1:39PM
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What About ‘Wearables’ We Don’t Have To Wear?
There’s only so much practical real estate on the human body for wearables.

So what if everyday objects that we interact with were to house the sensors that keep tabs on us?

August 4, 2014 at 11:32AM
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Forget drones: These tethered blimps can spy on cities below
Patrolling the skies these days is hard. There’s so many options to choose from. Enter a small Florida company now attempting to make snooping from the air both cheap and administratively easy.

August 4, 2014 at 10:22AM
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Wealth Managers Enlist Spy Tools to Map Portfolios
Some of the engineers who used to help the Central Intelligence Agency solve problems have moved on to another challenge: determining the value of every conceivable investment in the world.

August 4, 2014 at 8:53AM
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The Pentagon’s troubled, expensive new fighter jet
The F-35 has been plagued by problems. Will it ever get off the ground?

August 4, 2014 at 6:52AM
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