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10 December 2013

10 December 2013, 03:16

8 top tech firms seek limits on U.S. surveillance

In an open letter to Congress and President Obama published as full-page ads in several major newspapers Monday, the eight prominent tech companies stated: This summer's revelations highlighted the urgent need to reform government surveillance practices worldwide.

08 December 2013, 17:01

IPad game's underlying mission: checking software code

The Code of Plants does more than rack up points - it generates mathematical proofs that automatically analyze additional software for security vulnerabilities. "The process finds a really solid proof that a particular piece of software doesn't have exposures or vulnerabilities," said John Murray...

07 December 2013, 08:30

A statement win for Troy

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Rich Hurley elected to take off his sport jacket for a postgame interview Friday night, a decision that revealed the Troy High boys' basketball coach's sweat-drenched purple dress shirt.

06 December 2013, 20:49

Get your fill of the radio of yesteryear

Before iPhones, before Bluetooth, before satellites, when communication zipping through the air seemed as exotic as landing on the moon, there was radio. The audio dramas and Morse code are gone (and a receiver is no longer considered a piece of furniture)...

06 December 2013, 04:00

Nelson Mandela obituary: Madiba - the father of South African democracy

"Rwanda is our nightmare, South Africa is our dream." So wrote the Nobel Prize-winning African novelist Wole Soyinka in 1994. It was just a month after two events which seemed to span the polarities of despair and hope so many saw in the continent of Africa in the post-independence era.

05 December 2013, 20:00

Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing Our World

George Gilder is the living author who was most quoted in President Reagan’s speeches. His books Wealth and Poverty (1981), Microcosm (1989), and Telecosm (2000) had a big impact on the way people looked at economics and technology.

05 December 2013, 02:39

Google takes big leap into developing new robots

[...] it's slowly transformed a search engine that once relied on counting links into one of the world's most sophisticated artificial intelligence tools, perpetually improving the accuracy of results by coming to "understand" how words and concepts relate to each other.

04 December 2013, 15:00

Tech's space appetite eclipses highs of dot-com boom

Technology companies have leased 40 percent more San Francisco office space since the start of 2010 than during the five-year dot-com boom. The sector represented 61 percent of all office leasing last year, a historical high.

03 December 2013, 17:34

Can the F-35 Replace the A-10?

by Nickolai Sukharev One of the big decisions the United States Air Force has considered over the last few months is whether to retire the A-10 Thunderbolt II fleet as a cost saving measure while developing...

03 December 2013, 15:13

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01 December 2013, 05:01

Square deal - firm hires expert in global trade

Demetrios Marantis is helping the business navigate the complex maze of regulations covering financial services as it expands in Canada and Japan, and looks for opportunities beyond. Part of that task appears to be underscoring Square's contributions to San Francisco...

30 November 2013, 11:03

Holiday recipes to highlight wine

Well-balanced Chardonnay of many styles can handle a creamy-textured sauce and sweet crab dish like Crab "Shells" With Lemon Curry Bechamel, but for slightly different reasons. A rich Chardonnay matches the rich dish, while a higher acid style acts like an enlivening squeeze of lemon juice.

30 November 2013, 01:00

Bring those at odds together with a Jake Barnes

28 November 2013, 02:36

Spying on online sex lives raises red flags

The latest bombshell leak from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden reveals that the NSA has been "gathering records of online sexual activity and evidence of visits to pornographic...

28 November 2013, 00:00

Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation Featured

Each fall, the final out is recorded, a new World Series winner is crowned, and baseball fans around the country come to grips with the fact that they won’t watch a professional game again for many months.