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Google Defends Privacy Changes as Questions Mount
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While Google touts its new policy as good for users, others argue that the real beneficiaries are advertisers.
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Jumping Spider Uses Fuzzy Eyesight to Judge Distance
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One of the ways in which humans determine distance is by estimating the sharpness of an image—closer objects produce a sharp image, while those further away are out of focus. For us, this is a minor additional method of judging distance, but now scientists in Japan have for the first time found an animal that appears to use this method as its primary means of depth perception.
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Facebook Sues Spammy Ad Network
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Yesterday Facebook and Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna filed dual lawsuits against co-owners of Adscend Media, LLC, which Facebook Security claims is an ad network "that is alleged to develop and encourage others to spread spam through misleading and deceptive tactics, including the one known as clickjacking." Clickjacking (a.k.a. likejacking) is a technique that tricks users into clicking on an invisible "Like" button. Naked Security's Graham Cluley explains that this button "follows their mouse across the screen, not realizing that they are recommending the webpage to all of th
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Can Sex Ever Be Casual? | Psychology Today
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No-strings-attached mating may differ between theory and practice.
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When Antivirus Firms Can't Tell They've Been Hacked, We're All Doomed
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Symantec has been scrabbling around trying address a security breach from 2006 that came to light recently. But the fact that the company wasn't sure its was hacked in the first place doesn't exactly inspire confidence. Symantec originally said that the worst case scenario was that hackers had...
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Kepler telescope team finds 11 new solar systems
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NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has found 11 new planetary systems, including one with five planets all orbiting closer to their parent star than Mercury circles the Sun, scientists said on Thursday.
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Samsung Galaxy Note teardown shows small LTE chip
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We often see third-party device teardowns but Samsung bucks the trend by showing breakdown of its 5.3-inch Galaxy Note. Those who say Android screens are getting larger mainly because of LTE radio size need to take a closer look at this dissection. I think they're wrong.
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New 2D Mario Coming to 3DS
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Buried in its latest fiscal report, Nintendo revealed it plans to bring Mario back to the 3DS within its next fiscal year - this time in 2D.
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