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Japanese researchers check IDs with eyeball twitch 'Spoof-proof' biometrics Biometric identity scanners are attracting more attention as safe way to handle user authentication and security. But a team of Japanese researchers claim current methods are bunk if approached by a sufficiently sophisticated intruder.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Vintage Japanese Robots Storm Sci-Fi Museum : Though made for children, Japanese toy robots can catch the eye of even the most discriminating adults. Iconic graphic designer Tom Geismar, whose firm Chermayeff & Geismar has created memorable logos for Mobil, PBS and other U.S. institutions, has been collecting the shiny bots Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Vintage Japanese Robots Storm Sci-Fi Museum : Though made for children, Japanese toy robots can catch the eye of even the most discriminating adults. Iconic graphic designer Tom Geismar, whose firm Chermayeff & Geismar has created memorable logos for Mobil, PBS and other U.S. institutions, has been collecting the shiny bots Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Meet Hiroyuki Nishimura, the Bad Boy of the Japanese Internet I'm sitting in a sterile white conference room waiting for Hiroyuki Nishimura. Japan is a nation where the 3:17 train arrives every day at 3:17 — not 3:16 or 3:18 — and Nishimura is 45 minutes late. The PR assistant who painstakingly coordinated our interview, a typical salarym Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Researchers devise undetectable phishing attack With the help of about 200 Sony Playstations, an international team of security researchers have devised a way to undermine the algorithms used to protect secure Web sites and launch a nearly undetectable phishing attack. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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US rolls out 'Vicinity RFID' to check IDs in moving vehicles From 20-30 feet. But your data is safe, honest... RFID technology that allows the remote identification of travellers in moving vehicles is being rolled out at US land border crossings this month. Crossing points with Canada at Blaine, and with Mexico at Nogales, came online last week, with Buffa Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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US-Japanese study finds genes for 1918 'Spanish flu' pandemic - AFP Special Broadcasting ServiceUS-Japanese study finds genes for 1918 'Spanish flu' pandemicAFP - 4 hours agoWASHINGTON (AFP) - A US-Japanese research team announced it had isolated three genes that explain why the 1918 Spanish flu, believed to be the deadliest infectious Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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A Brief Tour of the Japanese Web I'm sitting in a smoky room on the second floor of a Tully's Coffee in Western Tokyo, looking over the shoulder of Ichiroo Kiyota as he types on his laptop. Kiyota, an executive at Six Apart Japan, is showing me around some of the most popular — and useless — Web apps in the countr Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Researchers 'poison' Storm botnet A group of German researchers has unveiled the first publicly released research attempting to actively disrupt a peer-to-peer botnet - using as their case study the notorious Storm worm.The researchers were able Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Researchers build malicious Facebook application A team of researchers have built a malicious Facebook program an experiment to demonstrate the possible dangers of social networking applications.The experiment shows the ease with which attackers could dupe lar Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Japanese to launch paper plane from ISS Splendidly pointless origami re-entry mission Researchers from the University of Tokyo have hooked up with the Japan Origami Airplane Association for what is quite possibly the most splendidly pointless space experiment of all time - the development of a paper plane capable of surviving re-entry Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Wi-Fi virus outbreak is possible, researchers say If criminals were to target unsecured wireless routers, they could create an attack that could piggyback across thousands of Wi-Fi networks in urban areas like Chicago or New York City, according to researchers at Indiana University. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Researchers turn camera phone into mouse Researchers in the United Kingdom have developed software that loads camera phones with mouse capabilities, allowing users to swivel a camera phone to scroll or move items on a PC screen.While the software is in Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Researchers breach Microsoft's CardSpace ID technology A trio of computer security researchers say they've successfully compromised Microsoft's CardSpace, a technology intended to strengthen the security of personal information on the Internet.CardSpace ships with t Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Video: Watch Fire Researchers Torch Homes, Offices and Warehouses : To model how flames turn buildings into ashes, the nation's leading fire researchers don't play with matches over the sink. Instead they burn down entire homes, cubicles and warehouses. At the National Institutes of Standards and Technologies, researchers set huge fires under a 40-foo Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Video: Watch Fire Researchers Torch Homes, Offices and Warehouses : To model how flames turn buildings into ashes, the nation's leading fire researchers don't play with matches over the sink. Instead they burn down entire homes, cubicles and warehouses. At the National Institutes of Standards and Technologies, researchers set huge fires under a 40-foo Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Check Point goes virtual with VPN-1 Check Point is introducing a version of its VPN-1 software that runs on VMware ESX or ESXi to protect virtual machines from one another when they are running on a single piece of hardware.The software runs on th Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Researchers show how to crack popular smart cards Researchers have published a cryptographic algorithm and source code that could be used to duplicate smart cards used by several major transit systems, including Boston's Charlie Card and the London Oyster card. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Hard drive encryption has Achilles heel, say researchers If you think that encrypting your laptop's hard drive will keep your data safe from prying eyes, you may want to think again, according to researchers at Princeton University.They've discovered a way to steal th Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Researchers provide a chill to fan-cooled PCs Researchers at Purdue University and Intel have developed heat dissipation technology that can boost the performance of chip-cooling systems by up to 200 percent.The researchers are developing ionic wind engines Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |