May 13, 2013

Weekly Communications Newsletter

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LED Pixels Should Make Displays Brighter and More Efficient

Micro-display LED tech could light up the next generation of face-wearable gadgets.

 
 

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“Synthetic Records” Make Cellphone Data Minable without Invading Privacy

Researchers use phone records to build a mobility model of the Los Angeles and New York City regions with new privacy guarantees.

 

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How Cell-Phone Traces Reveal Poverty and Sports Allegiances

An examination of simple cell-phone records reveals maps of poverty levels, ethnic divides, and the movements of sports fans.

 
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Facebook Gets Ready to Update Its Home App

A month after the release of Home, Facebook is working to answer criticisms with improvements.

 
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Decoys Entrap Hackers Who Trawl the Internet Trying to Tamper with Industrial Control Systems

Dummy water-plant control systems rapidly attracted attention from hackers who tinkered with their settings—suggesting it happens to real industrial systems, too.

 
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Video: Memoto Camera Logs Your Life

A clip-on camera that snaps a picture every 30 seconds.

 
 

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Reserchers Create “Hate Map” With Twitter Data

The same researchers previously mapped racist Tweets about President Obama. In both cases there’s reason to be a little skeptical.

 
 

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Sharing With Your Friends Is the Best

In new study, Facebook’s science team says the company killed automatic sharing on “Offers” because the science said active sharing works better.

 
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Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet for Over Two Years

A quantum internet capable of sending perfectly secure messages has been running at Los Alamos National Labs for the last two and a half years, say researchers

 
 

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Flash Crash Redux: A Simple Algorithm That Might Prevent Financial Disaster

A clever new approach could help monitor an incredibly complicated, increasingly automated system that thrives on secrecy.

 
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