Stories by Larry Greenemeier

Is online anonymity important to you? How far are you willing to go to protect your privacy? These two the key questions are examined in a report released Thursday by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.

There are ways to protect personal information while still enjoying much of what the Web has to offer

NASA has big plans for 3-D printing in space, where mined asteroid materials could resupply longer missions

Researchers repurpose TV signals to transfer data and power battery-free sensors

Revelations of the U.S. National Security Agency’s PRISM program continue to have worldwide ripple effects. Nearly two months after U.S. federal prosecutors charged NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden with espionage and theft of government property for blowing the lid off of the clandestine surveillance program, the company that secured Snowden’s electronic communications with journalists and international [...]

As computers have matured over time, the human brain has no way of keeping up with silicon’s rapid-fire calculating abilities. But the human cognitive repertoire extends far beyond just fast calculations.

Search Apple’s app Store for iPhone or iPad antivirus software and you’ll find only a handful of security programs designed to defend these iOS devices from malicious software (malware).

Mark Maybury holds forth on fending off cyber attackers, keeping humans in the loop during drone missions and outfitting pilots with computerized Band-Aids

Oak Ridge National Laboratory engineers are readying BitPredator, a tool for tracing the source of P2P files, so it can help law enforcement crack down on child abusers

Stories of high-profile attacks on Internet-connected mobile devices are hard to come by, but it may not always be this way

There are effective ways to encrypt data, whether it is in transit or in storage, but if that data is left in the clear at any point along its path, it is vulnerable to theft or tampering

The National Transportation Safety Board will interview Flight 214’s crew to determine why the aircraft’s landing approach was too slow

Need to turn up your air conditioner or turn down your TV? Just swing your arm through the air

The director of Intel Labs explains why products like Google Glass aren't quite ready for the mainstream

James Cameron donates his tricked-out ocean sub to science

IBM creates the world's tiniest movie

CEO Dick Costolo says companies should report when governments ask them for user data

Should the FBI be able to break into private electronic communications via existing software vulnerabilities?

Future networks must push past current wireless bandwidth limitations

The Internet may be too hot for data centers to handle

A new film examines Internet addiction and a baby's death

To keep the Web from collapsing under the weight of ever more data, the network needs to radically change the way it handles information, says the head of Bell Labs Research