- Music Festivals, Bluetooth Monitoring and the Behavior of Crowds
The unexpected behaviour of crowds at one of Europe’s largest music festivals should help organisers plan future events, say researchers
- AT&T Tests Public Phone Charging Stations
Wireless carrier AT&T is rolling out free gadget-charging stations all over NYC.
- Google Says Secret Intelligence Court Restricts Its Right to Free Speech
Google is demanding that a secret intelligence court allow it to share some details about surveillance requests for user data.
Last week, negative press in the wake of recent leaks about NSA surveillance prompted Facebook, Google, and Microsoft to politely ask the U.S. government to be allowed to share broad statistics on their legally required role in such activities.
- Laser Scanning Reveals New Parts of an Ancient Cambodian City
LIDAR technology continues to reveal archeological evidence of urbanization
Airborne laser scanning has revealed the remnants of a vast urban structure in the vicinity of Angkor Wat, a famous temple in Cambodia. The study, which will be published soon in the journal PNAS, follows a previous one that showed Angkor Wat to have been one of the world’s most complex preindustrial cities.
- Mobile Call Logs Can Reveal a Lot to the NSA
Research shows how much the NSA could glean from call records, and why efforts to downplay the significance of such metadata are misleading.
Of all the recent revelations about the National Security Agency’s sweeping surveillance activities, the collection of metadata from Verizon’s U.S. call records may be the most concerning (see “NSA Surveillance Reflects a Broader Interpretation of the Patriot Act”). Despite reassurances that the information collected is limited in its scope, academics who study such data say it could still reveal a great deal about the people being monitored.
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