A reverse engineer finds Kindle's hidden features
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A little hacking reveals that Amazon's Kindle has faux-GPS abilities and related location-based services, a photo viewer, and a minesweeper game.
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Desktop search can help you sort through your computer's contents
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A cadre of unknown designers shapes everyday human-machine interactions. By Andrew Blum from Wired magazine.
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Printing with Lightroom on Leopard...getting Photoshopped for Christmas...cell phones with 5x optical zoom...the optical triangle illusion
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Swapping out optical media drives does the trick, hardware hackers report. In Gadget Lab.
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MIT researchers develop an authentication system that's not so easily revealed to prying eyes.
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A UC Santa Cruz prof designs a tool to give Wikipedia users a better idea of how trustworthy entries are. The software flags questionable lines by turning the text orange -- the more it's been tinkered with, the deeper the orange. This, on the heels of the Wikipedia tracker that reveals who has edited the entries.
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A reconfigurable handheld device could foster a community of hardware hackers.
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A computer security researcher figures out exactly how a high-tech scammer
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A new kind of gadget can save your data -- and your hide -- when your laptop is damaged or lost.
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Analysis of the BEA acquisition from Reg reader input â¦
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One of the major issues plaguing search engines right now is the growing list of web documents available online. While no exact numbers are available, there are billions of search results to sort through. But, they can&#8217;t all be relevant both on material content and time &#8212; can they?  Of course they&#8217;re not, and Google [...]
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Adobe Repairs Reader, Acrobat Flaws Information Week
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New data classification tools can inspect content, identify patterns, and generally provide greater insight into the purpose and value of a particular file. Some of these applications also provide extensive indexing capabilities, as well.
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A closer look at some behind-the-scenes tweaks for speeding up page loads, reducing memory drain and making the interface behave the way you want it to.
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A new program claims to detect copy theft in any text document.
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By Vanessa Thomas  Imagine a laboratory filled with equipment advanced enough to locate deleted child pornography on a hard drive, recover old e- mails sent on a cell phone and trace the owner of a camera used to download photographs onto a laptop.