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The Web's Dark Energy: By Jonathan Zittrain | 0 Comments; Community policing can help make the Web safe.

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Meraki Outdoor: By Kristina Grifantini | 0 Comments; A mesh networking repeater for harsh conditions.

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From the Lab: Information Technology: By Kate Greene | 0 Comments; New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in information technology--and what they mean.

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Optical Reality: By David Talbot | 0 Comments; New chips promise cheap Web bandwidth.

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How Facebook Works: By Alan Zeichick | 0 Comments; The social network's technology manages a vast and rapidly expanding web of connections for its millions of users.

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Who Owns Your Friends?: By Erica Naone | 0 Comments; Social-networking sites are fighting over control of users' personal information.

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Internet Gridlock: By Larry Hardesty | 15 Comments; Video is clogging the Internet. How we choose to unclog it will have far-reaching implications.

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The Future of Web 2.0: By Jason Pontin | 0 Comments; The Web is returning to its social roots. But is it getting ahead of itself once again?

Sharper Satellite Images: By Lissa Harris | 06/20/2008 | 0 Comments; A new satellite could produce color images of objects half the size of those visible to its predecessors.

A Display That Tracks Your Movements: By Kate Greene | 06/20/2008 | 3 Comments; Samsung and Reactrix move beyond touch screens and try to make hand waving the next big computer interface.

Windows for GPS: By Duncan Graham-Rowe | 06/18/2008 | 0 Comments; Microsoft's latest operating system makes it easier to integrate location detection with other services.

Creating Creatures: By Erica Naone | 06/17/2008 | 0 Comments; Spore's Lucy Bradshaw talks about why the game's developers embraced an old programming technique.

Breaking Phone-Call Encryption: By Erica Naone | 06/17/2008 | 9 Comments; A data compression scheme could leave Internet phone calls vulnerable to eavesdroppers.

Doubling Laptop Battery Life: By Kate Greene | 06/13/2008 | 3 Comments; Intel's new integrated power management could dramatically reduce power consumption in your laptop by shutting down operations not being used.

Containing Internet Worms: By Erica Naone | 06/12/2008 | 0 Comments; A new method could stop Internet worms from spreading.

Who Owns Your Friends?
July/August 2008
Joseph Smarr, chief platform architect at Plaxo, talks about the social Web of the future.
(4min 49sec)

The Business of Social Networks: The future of the Web is social. But can social-networking sites ever make money?

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