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DOJ Opposes Tech Firms' Push for Surveillance Stats
2013-10-03 02:32:28| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
The Justice Department this week urged the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to reject requests from Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and others that would allow them to reveal more details about government requests for user data.
Moores law could be saved by super-fast electronics and photonic tech
2013-10-02 20:00:40| Extremetech
Researchers from University of Colorado Boulder and MIT may have developed technology that will power future microprocessors. The optical components described in a pair of new studies can translate electrical signals into light, and they can be fabricated using existing facilities and technology.
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Avnet grabs majority stake in German tech firm
2013-10-02 16:52:45| Electronics - Topix.net
Avnet Inc. , a Phoenix-based global electronic components distributor, announced today it has acquired a majority interest in MSC Investoren GmbH as the first step in a two-part transaction to fully acquire the German company.
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Tech: BlackBerry No Longer Sold at T-Mobile Retail Stores
2013-10-02 12:43:06| Electronics - Topix.net
Mobile has dropped BlackBerry devices from its retail locations, but will continue to ship them by request, Reuters reports .
US Army develops human-on-a-chip tech for chemical testing, fleshy robot soldiers
2013-10-01 18:15:15| Extremetech
Not content with creating Terminator-like soldiers such as Atlas, and the Avatar mind-meld program that allows human soldiers to control their robotic equivalents from afar, the US Army is now working on a human-on-a-chip. These HoCs will ostensibly be used to safely test new chemical weapons, and to explore possible treatments for exposure to chemical weapons, but long-term it's easy to imagine that these chips will be used as the basis for sentient, human-like robot soldiers -- much like the humanoid Cylon "skinjobs" in Battlestar Galactica.
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