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Cyber Cops Stop Mohammed Merah, Scour Web For Missing Murder Videos

Mohammed Merah, the French terrorist responsible for attacks on Jewish schools and paratroopers, is dead. Here's how authorities used modern techniques such as IP address forensics and digital surveillance to track him down.READ MORE

IBM's Quantum Computers Could Change The World (Mostly In Very Good Ways)

IBM reveals amazing progress on the future of computing. Soon, if Big Blue is right, we may see a historic event on the scale of discovering fire or inventing a warp drive. For real.READ MORE

The Future Of The Internet's Here. And It's Creepy

Two new studies are offering a sneak peak into the future of the Internet: 24/7 digital surveillance of citizens is about to become affordable for repressive regimes worldwide. Do NOT text a friend about this. READ MORE

Facebook Buys Gowalla, Zynga Targets $1 Billion IPO, Groupon Investigated For Ad Code Breach

Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day.READ MORE

This Week In Bots: The Ambling, Gambling, Living, Loving Edition

GroundBot is cool and all, but it's far from the only robotics innovation to delight and amaze the world this week. READ MORE

Decade Of Disruption: 9/11-Inspired Innovation

The 9/11 attacks shook up more than the world's psyche, and have led to a raft of new inventions and futuristic tech designed to prevent similar terrorism in the future--from iRobots to full body scanners. These too have an ongoing mission to change our life.READ MORE

Cisco's Tech Just One Of Many New Ways China Could Spy On Its People

Cisco is about to help China network up to half a million cameras in the city of Chongqing. Ostensibly it's a crime-prevention maneuver, but given China's record, this, and plenty of other tech, could help spy on the populace.READ MORE

How a U.S. Spy Drone Could Help Solve Japan's Nuclear Crisis

There are reports that the U.S. military used a Global Hawk spy drone to peep inside the damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan. Here's how this tech could help Japan solve its nuke woes.READ MORE

Coming Soon: The Thinking Camera, Courtesy of the Pentagon

How long before the Mind's Eye project leads to consumer store shelves stocked with visually intelligent machines?READ MORE

Coming Soon: Movie Screens That Watch You Back, Measure Your Reactions

Movie theater anti-piracy tech is getting a novel tweak that means it'll watch audiences to see how they react to movies and adverts. The silver screen is set to watch you back.READ MORE

U.S. Air Force Takes on Dangerous Space Trash With Surveillance Satellites

There's a lot of space debris up there--and we're not talking moon dust: Smashed rocket fragments, dropped tools, flakes of paint even all orbit the planet at dangerous supersonic speeds. There's so much of this detritus, in fact, the ...READ MORE

Surveillance Cams Get Search-Engine Friendly

Big Brother surveillance technology just got a whole lot more clever, thanks to scientists from UCLA. They've developed a camera system that automatically generates a live text description of what it's seeing for better ...READ MORE

DARPA's Smart Blimp: Mysterious, Hovering Future of Battlefield Surveillance

In the future DARPA's ISIS blimp may be hovering above the horizon near to conflict zones, feeding real time radar data to troops and smart weapons from on high. True to its name, it's also a little more magical than the Goodyear ...READ MORE

Josh Harris' Wired City

Josh Harris describes his vision of the Wired City, a concept that reaches far beyond the confines of reality TV, and imagines thousands of individuals under constant surveillance, being selectively filtered and exposed to the public. ...READ MORE

The Connection Between Google's Chinese Cyber Attackers and the U.S. Govt.

Here's one for the conspiracy theorists among you (you know who you are...and so do the guys in the van out front): That Chinese cyberattack late in 2009, targeting Google and other big names, was enabled by U.S. warrantless search ...READ MORE

Run for Your Life: The Pentagon's Robotic Hummingbird Takes Flight

Video of the latest flying contraption by DARPA, the Pentagon's hyper-strange research lab.READ MORE

Pirate Party Wins a Seat on E.U. Parliament

Europeans have been busy choosing new members of the European Parliament, and the Swedes have pulled off a surprising maneuver: They've elected a member of the Pirate Party. For the anti-copyright movement, it's a huge ...READ MORE

Managing Transparency

What are the strategies we can use to deal with unrelenting transparency? Fight it. Accept it. Deceive it.READ MORE

I Can See You

Transparency rules, whether you like it or not.READ MORE

To the Rescue: A Swarm of Tiny Helicopters

When disaster strikes, rescue and survey teams sprint to the site, trying to find survivors and survey the damage. German scientists have invented a a better, quicker way to do the job: By using a swarm of mini helicopters to ...READ MORE