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Computers would soon be able to to respond to users’ thoughts of frustration caused by too much work or boredom caused by too little work, thanks to new techniques being developed by Tufts University researchers.

Congress was today urged to to address recent changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that gave United States authorities sweeping powers to spy on American citizens, by those testifying at the House Judicial Committee hearing on warrantless surveillance and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Lasers can be used to zap viruses in blood, making the process of disinfecting blood for transfusions more efficient, a father-son team reported in the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.

The World Wide Web Consortium (WC3) published today a critical Web standard for extending the features of Web services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications, enabling developers to meet requirements for secure transactions, reliable messaging, addressing metadata, and other scenarios, in modular fashion.

The time and cost needed to produce microchips could be drastically reduced thanks to a simple low-cost a new process invented by Princeton engineers in which a thin polymer film is sandwiched between two flat plates that are then pulled apart creating ultra small grooves over large areas as if by "magic".

A company that wants to offer "free" filtered Internet over unused TV spectrum band has hit back at criticism that its service is "free as in beer" but not "free as in speech".

The public overwhelmingly opposes plans by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers(ICANN) to censor generic top-level domains (gTLDs) on the grounds of moral, political and commercial judgments and other non-technical criteria, according to comments received on its new policy guidelines.

Shoppers, lovers, and gamers online could 'feel' different in the future, thanks to thanks to research being carried out at Queen’s University into a new technology which has the potential to add the sense of touch to virtual worlds.

Internet bandwidth could become a global currency under a proposed model for the future of e-commerce that exploits a novel peer-to-peer video sharing application designed by a trans-Atlantic team of computer scientists.

Internet domain registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy has come under heavy criticism for suspending 10 Chinese human rights sites without warning on August 17.