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<link>http://www.extremetech.com/computing/117415-laser-switched-magnetic-storage-is-1000-times-faster-than-current-hard-drives</link>
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<title>Laser-switched magnetic storage is 1,000 times faster than current hard drives</title>
<description><![CDATA[By Sebastian Anthony: 
Hold onto your hats: An international team of scientists working in England, Russia, Switzerland, and the Netherlands have completely rewritten the rules of magnetic storage. Instead of switching a magnetic region using a magnetic field (like a hard drive head), the researchers have managed to switch a ferrimagnetic nanoisland using lasers. Storing magnetic data using lasers is up to 1,000 times faster than writing to a conventional hard drive.]]></description>
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<link>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/06/why_iphone_4_wont_get_siri/</link>
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<title>A5 Mystery Solved (Why Siri Won\'t Run On iPhone 4)</title>
<description><![CDATA[By Hugh Pickens &amp; Anna Leach: 
Linley Gwennap of the Linley Group cracked one of the secrets of the new iPhone's A5 chip after working out that it packs some serious audio cleaning power not available on the iPhone 4's A4 chip. Audience has developed technology that removes most or all of the background noise when someone places a cell-phone call from a restaurant, airport, or other noisy location.]]></description>
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<link>http://www.extremetech.com/computing/116819-windows-phone-8-detailed-its-like-windows-8-but-not-quite</link>
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<title>Windows Phone 8 detailed: It’s like Windows 8, but not quite</title>
<description><![CDATA[By Sebastian Anthony: 
For a start, Windows Phone 8 is the Apollo update that has been bandied around for a few months. Windows Phone 7.5 will receive the Tango update in the coming months, which brings support for smaller screens, hardware keyboards, slower SoCs, and more languages -- and then, alongside Windows 8 in the fall, Apollo (WP8) will launch.]]></description>
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<link>http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/privacy-paradox/political-data</link>
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<title>Yes We Can (Profile You) - A Brief Primer on Campaigns and Political Data</title>
<description><![CDATA[by Daniel Kreiss
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 

During the summer of 2011, Michelle Bachman's campaign rolled out an online video advertising campaign exclusively for Republicans likely to caucus living within one hundred miles of the straw poll in Ames, Iowa. In the months leading up to the caucuses Mitt Romney's presidential campaign purchased ads that ran before all YouTube videos watched by voters in Iowa and New Hampshire. Meanwhile, through sophisticated voter modeling, targeted communications based on voters’ political interests, and tracking the attitudes of supporters over the course of two campaigns, Romney's campaign orchestrated his near-victory in the 2012 Iowa caucuses.]]></description>
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<link>http://m.krebsonsecurity.com/2012/02/whos-behind-the-worlds-largest-spam-botnet/</link>
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<title>Who’s Behind the World’s Largest Spam Botnet? </title>
<description><![CDATA[By Brian Krebs: 
A Wikileaks-style war of attrition between two competing rogue Internet pharmacy gangs has exposed some of the biggest spammers on the planet. The latest casualties? Several individuals likely responsible for running Grum, currently the world's most active spam botnet.]]></description>
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<link>http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/012612-super-wifi-255383.html</link>
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<title>First \'Super Wi-Fi\' network goes live in North Carolina</title>
<description><![CDATA[By Brad Reed: 
Lucky residents of Wilmington, NC, will be the first in the nation to have access to a &quot;Super Wi-Fi&quot; network.

Officials from New Hanover County, NC, announced today that they had become the first in the United States to deploy a mobile data network on so-called &quot;white spaces&quot; spectrum that the Federal Communications Commission first authorized for unlicensed use in 2008. The county was able to make a quick transition in using the spectrum for a mobile data network because it was the first to successfully transition from analog to digital television. ]]></description>
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<title>iPhone 4S\'s Siri Is a Bandwidth Guzzler</title>
<description><![CDATA[By Paul Farhi: 
Like a few million other people this past holiday season, we bought an iPhone 4S, with its much-hyped Siri feature. The vocal interface allows users to speak all kinds of commands into the phone (&quot;What's the weather in San Francisco?&quot;) and get answers from a sultry-voiced robot/concierge.

We've used Siri to get directions, to make hands-free mobile calls and to fetch answers to trivia questions. Sometimes we just goof on Siri. &quot;Siri, do you love me?&quot; my daughter asked the other day. (Siri's heartbreaking response: &quot;I am not capable of love.&quot;) Most ways you look at it, Siri is pretty magical.]]></description>
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<link>http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223777/Massive_Android_malware_op_may_have_infected_5_million_users</link>
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<title>Android Malware May Have Infected 5 Million Users</title>
<description><![CDATA[By Gregg Keizer: 
The largest-ever Android malware campaign may have duped as many as 5 million users into downloading infected apps from Google's Android Market, Symantec said today.

Dubbed &quot;Android Counterclank&quot; by Symantec, the malware was packaged in 13 different apps from three different publishers, with titles ranging from &quot;Sexy Girls Puzzle&quot; to &quot;Counter Strike Ground Force.&quot; Many of the infected apps were still available on the Android Market as of 3 pm ET Friday.]]></description>
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<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/01/27/darpa-funded-hackers-tiny-50-spy-computer-hides-in-offices-drops-from-drones/</link>
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<title>DARPA Funding a $50 Drone-Droppable Spy Computer</title>
<description><![CDATA[By Forbes: 
Even more embarrassing than a student discovering your GPS tracking device on his car, as the FBI found out last year, is having to ask him to give the expensive piece of equipment back.

So security researcher Brendan O'Connor is trying a different approach to spy hardware: building a sensor-equipped surveillance-capable computer that’s so cheap it can be sacrificed after one use, with off-the-shelf parts that anyone can buy and assemble for less than fifty dollars.]]></description>
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<link>http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/01/25/the-worlds-worst-privacy-policy/</link>
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<title>The World\'s Worst Privacy Policy</title>
<description><![CDATA[By Andy Greenberg: 
With the Internet up in arms about the most recent tweaks to Google's fine print on privacy, it's helpful to remember: It could be much, much worse.

Another search engine called Skipity, created last June and registered to one Andrew Corley, offers a refreshingly honest example of the privacy policy most companies' execs would like to implement, but don't dare to: An absurdly funny, downright contemptuous attack on users' supposed right to shield their lives from Big Brother that appears to have been written entirely without the influence of lawyers.]]></description>
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