Stories about: Alessandro

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    Facial recognition: Facebook photo matching just the start 22/09/2011 11:20:00

    The Internet was in an uproar earlier this year following Facebook's launch of facial recognition software for its photo services, enabling users to identify their friends in photos automatically--and without their permission. Though critics described that move as creepy, the controversial technology may now be on the verge of widespread use.
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    Black Hat: System links your face to your Social Security number and other private things 02/08/2011 08:44:00

    Soon it will be practicable to take someone's photo on a smartphone and within minutes know their Social Security number and a range of other private data like their personal interests, sexual preference and credit status, researchers will tell the Black Hat security conference this week.
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    Italian Internet gurus claim credit for Mideast revolutions 23/02/2011 08:54:00

    The Internet has played a crucial role in the popular revolts that have inflamed the Middle East and Italian communications experts claim they contributed significantly when they launched an appeal for an Internet Bill of Rights at the United Nations' World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis several years ago.
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    MIT pioneers ad hoc network-bottleneck breaker 13/01/2011 10:59:00

    Two researchers may have found a way to greatly reduce traffic bottlenecks that could take place in ad hoc networks. Such work may be essential for the future development of sensor networks, they say.
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    Proposed Web video restrictions cause outrage in Italy 16/01/2010 05:16:00

    New rules to be introduced by government decree will require people who upload videos onto the Internet to obtain authorization from the Communications Ministry similar to that required by television broadcasters, drastically reducing freedom to communicate over the Web, opposition lawmakers have warned.
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    EFF to appeal court order halting subway hacker talk 11/08/2008 09:21:50

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation plans to appeal a U.S. District Court order imposing a temporary injunction on a Defcon presentation that would have detailed flaws in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority electronic ticketing system.
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    Supercomputer seen helping to diagnose osteoporosis 03/07/2008 08:40:54

    IBM and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology researchers are using an IBM BlueGene/L supercomputer to build intricate simulations of human bones, which could lead to earlier diagnoses of osteoporosis.
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    Microsoft embraces third-party virtualization platforms 21/11/2007 13:36:08

    Oracle may be signaling its intention to strong-arm customers over to its new virtualization platform, but Microsoft is doing just the opposite.
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    IBM simulates new transistor in race with Intel 27/02/2007 07:53:25

    IBM has taken a large stride in its race with Intel to make faster, smaller chips by building silicon transistors from a rare combination of metals.
 
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