The Next Russian Revolution
Outside Moscow, the Kremlin is making plans for a Russian Silicon Valley. But while tech companies are on board, the Russian people are less enthusiastic.
Outside Moscow, the Kremlin is making plans for a Russian Silicon Valley. But while tech companies are on board, the Russian people are less enthusiastic.
Alexis Madrigal
You'll be shocked by the amount of data you can find on the average iPhone
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It's impossible to keep information from the web, so we need new ways to keep secrets
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How the populous country could leapfrog the West with wireless technology
Welcome to the era of parental computing, or how the cloud makes children of us all |
In plays, poems, songs, and novels, clouds stand in for everything from bad philosophy to the many incarnations of a soul
By harnessing the vast wealth of publicly available cloud-based data, researchers are taking facial recognition technology to unprecedented levels
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The third and final week of our Tech202 report looks at the cloud -- our storage locker on the Internet
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Amazon's new browser sounds awesome, but can it overcome the limitations of our mobile infrastructure
"Unless you've been living under a rock, you're in the cloud," explains JESS3's quick tour of the applications and services that make up the "cloud"
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Amazon has positioned itself as Apple's preeminent competitor for the holiday season
Alexis Madrigal
Internet users once stalked off into the cyberfrontier looking for transcendence. The new Facebook wants you to understand your life from the comfort of its walled garden.
Eerie long-exposure photographs reveal the invisible wifi networks that permeate our urban environments, making the cloud available everywhere
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A software billionaire and his monumental task: create a database of the more than one billion people living in India
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A lawsuit between the Authors Guild and a host of university libraries reflects the growing tension between creators and holders of books
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