News tagged with intelligence
Anonymous briefly knocks CIA website offline (Update 2)
The website of the Central Intelligence Agency was briefly inaccessible on Friday after the hacker group Anonymous claimed to have knocked it offline.
Feb 10, 2012 |
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Tailor-made search tools for the Web
For companies, customer feedback is a matter of strategic importance. Smart apps for the semantic analysis of user opinions from the Web help businesses keep an eye on feedback. Users benefit as well: with ...
Feb 10, 2012 |
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CSIC inquiry tests visual intelligence through Facebook
A team of researchers from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) have developed a web application to test the visual intelligence of Facebook users through the social network. The new platform will enable researchers ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Artificial intelligence: Getting better at the age guessing game
Scientists are developing artificial intelligence solutions for image processing, which have applications in many areas including advertising, entertainment, education and healthcare. They have, for example, ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 02, 2012 |
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Testosterone makes us less cooperative and more egocentric, study finds
Testosterone makes us overvalue our own opinions at the expense of cooperation, research from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London has found. The findings may have implications for how group ...
Jan 31, 2012 |
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WikiLeaks scandal sparks US intelligence reform
The WikiLeaks document dump, which saw hundreds of thousands of classified US files leaked, rattled US intelligence officials, forcing them to implement reforms to prevent another such breach.
Jan 27, 2012 |
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FBI seeking social media monitoring tool
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for a tool to mine social media for intelligence tips.
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Believing the impossible and conspiracy theories
Distrust and paranoia about government has a long history, and the feeling that there is a conspiracy of elites can lead to suspicion for authorities and the claims they make. For some, the attraction of conspiracy theories ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 26, 2012 |
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Cosmology in a Petri dish
Scientists have found that micron-size particles which are trapped at fluid interfaces exhibit a collective dynamic that is subject to seemingly unrelated governing laws. These laws show a smooth transitioning ...
Jan 26, 2012 |
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Genetic study offers clues to how intelligence changes through life
(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists have estimated for the first time the extent to which genes determine changes in intelligence across the human life course.
Jan 19, 2012 |
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A new artificial intelligence technique to speed the planning of tasks when resources are limited
Scientists at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid have presented a new technique based on artificial intelligence that can automatically create plans, allowing problems to be solved with much greater speed than ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jan 17, 2012 |
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IBM attacks the complexity of security with identity intelligence
IBM announced a new identity intelligence breakthrough designed in IBM labs to provide corporations with a far more sophisticated approach to managing the information employees can access.
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Stratfor back online after cyberhack
(AP) -- Global intelligence analysis firm Stratfor has relaunched its website after hackers brought down its servers and stole thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to ...
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Televisions getting Siri-style personal assistants
Startup Vlingo on Tuesday said that it is giving televisions the kind of voice-controlled "virtual assistants" that have been a hit with the latest version of Apple's hot-selling iPhone.
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Analysis of the First Kepler SETI Observations
As the Kepler space telescope begins finding its first Earth-sized exoplanets, with the ultimate goal of finding ones that are actually Earth-like, it would seem natural that the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial ...
Jan 09, 2012 |
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