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Smithsonian magazine is comparing computer pioneer Jaron Lanier – one of the people who, indirectly, made what you’re reading (and the way you’re reading it) possible – to a Cold War double agent. Because he’s turned against the web he helped create:

The colorful, prodigy-like persona of Jaron Lanier—he was in his early 20s when he helped make virtual [...]

ITProPortal.com reports on a heightened state of alert in the halls of the government offices in charge of the very biggest missiles there are… because somebody just stole a kinda sensitive laptop:

The theft occurred on 31 October, and included a NASA laptop and official NASA documents issued to an employee who works at the space agency’s Washington DC headquarters.

“The [...]

Laboratory Equipment explores “brain fitness programs” and the way computer games can boost seniors’ memory and alertness:

The [UCLA] team studied 59 participants with an average age of 84, recruited from local retirement communities in Southern California. The volunteers were split into two groups: the first group used a brain fitness program for an average of 73.5 (20 minute) sessions [...]

Gigaom strolls into a safer future, thanks to car-sensing apps that can help smartphones save lives:

Although both cars and smartphones are filled with sensors, the solution GM is testing doesn’t need any of them. Instead, GM is banking on wireless connectivity; specifically the Wi-Fi Direct standard. Conceptually, cars would be actively looking for Wi-Fi Direct smartphones — [...]

The Register pays respects to an unsung hero of computer freedom:

CPRM is widely used today as the encryption scheme for SD cards. But by the summer of 2001, and thanks largely to Andre’s unsung efforts that spring, it was never implemented as a standard, official or otherwise.

This would be the last time the entertainment industry would attempt to define [...]

The aptly named ExtremeTech BLOWS THE LID off connection speeds with the HEAD-SPINNING news that American and Israeli researchers have sent 2.5 terabits of data per second through the airwaves:

These twisted signals use orbital angular momentum (OAM) to cram much more data into a single stream. In current state-of-the-art transmission protocols (WiFi, LTE, COFDM), we only modulate the spin [...]

Science News examines one system for making music – by taking noise and using thumbs-up or thumbs-down votes to refine it:

Inspired in part by long-running experiments probing the evolution of bacteria, computational biologist Bob MacCallum and colleagues decided to see if pleasant music could evolve from a cacophonous mess when human listeners acted as the force of natural [...]

MIT’s Technology Review is not a publication ordinarily given to hyperbole. So it’s a little distracting when their web desk declares that Facebook is heading for an implosion that will take internet business as we know it down with it:

The daily and stubborn reality for everybody building businesses on the strength of Web advertising is that the value [...]