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    New Technology Takes Aim at Fake IDs

    New Technology Takes Aim at Fake IDs
    Until mid-December, anyone needing a fake driver's license could download a free app from Apple's App Store and make one. The DriversEd iPhone and iPad app-available since 2009-allowed users to pose ...
    Tags: App Store, Bob Casey, Cutting Edge, cybersecurity, DriversEd.com, Faisal Shahzad, FBI Watch, identity, Intellicheck Mobilisa, IPad, iPhone, Long Island, New York, Sci/Tech, Steve Williams, Times Square, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
    2012-02-03T13:01:00Z by Sebastian Thaler
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    DNA Marking: A New Weapon Against Counterfeit Electronic Components

    DNA Marking: A New Weapon Against Counterfeit Electronic Components
    In addition to the usual perils it faces, the U.S. military is now grappling with a high-tech threat of a different sort: counterfeit electronic components in its equipment. As Michele Nash-Hoff ...
    Tags: Applied DNA Sciences, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Defense Logistics Agency, innovation, mobile technology, nanotechnology, Semiconductor Industry Association, Sen. Carl Levin, Supply Chain, U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee
    2012-01-24T10:15:00Z by Sebastian Thaler
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    How U.S. Government Could Still Re-energize Solar Power Industry

    How U.S. Government Could Still Re-energize Solar Power Industry
    It's an all-too-familiar refrain in the United States these days: "Solar is too expensive." Supporters of solar power have long had to face the argument that conventional energy sources are simply ...
    Tags: Ashok K. Sood, Department of Defense, Magnolia Solar Corporation, NASA, Solyndra, Tigercomm, U.S. Export-Import Bank
    2012-01-09T13:01:00Z by Sebastian Thaler
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