The IRS has quietly upgraded its technology so tax collectors can track virtually everything people do online
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Elon Musk refuses to patent technologies developed at his SpaceX rocket company for fear that foreign space agencies would simply pinch them.
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Mitt Romney’s online voter-turnout operation suffered a meltdown on Election Day, resultÃÂing in a crucial 90-minute “buckling” of the system in Boston and the inability of some campaign workers across the country to use a vital smartphone program, according to campaign officials and volunteers.
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What country has just sentenced a man to eight months in prison for wearing an anti-police t-shirt, and another man to three months in prison for telling an “abhorrent” joke on Facebook? Iran, perhaps? China? No, it’s Britain.
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The microelectronics allegedly exported to Russia since 2008 by main defendant Alexander Fishenko, 46, and his Houston-based company Arc Electronics could potentially use for military purposes, including “radar and surveillance systems, weapons guidance systems and detonation triggers,” authorities said.
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German police have been left baffled by a toilet-paper thief in their own ranks after a two-year hunt. The mystery culprit could not be flushed out even after a hidden camera usually reserved for organized criminals had been installed to find him.
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Officials say it is a revolutionary camera surveillance system that will simultaneously scan the streets and call up data on suspects.
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The increasing deployment of iris scanners and biometric passports at worldwide airports, hotels and business headquarters, designed to catch terrorists and criminals, are playing havoc with operations that require CIA spies to travel under false identities.
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The LAPD is fighting crime from a high-tech war room that gives it eyes all over the city. The surveillance hub is now a model for police forces around the world and KCAL9 got an exclusive tour inside from Chief Charlie Beck.
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Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has donated and equipped the lab, which the company says is the major part of its ã20m contribution to the games.
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