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HMRC enlists internet bots in tax evasion battle

...tax evasion. HM Revenue & Customs has said it plans to use web bots to collate information on suspected tax evaders. Photo credit: jam_90s on... Read more

14 June, 2011 by Staff

Banking Trojan breaks captcha to spread bot

...broken with the help of a captcha-breaking server, which allows the bot to register a mail account or address after only a few attempts... Read more

31 January, 2012 by Tom Espiner
Robot summit shows off innovations

Robot summit shows off innovations

...show floor. Users can stream real-time video of what the programmable bot is seeing through its built-in camera.Photo credit: Innorobo For more... Read more

11 April, 2011 by Nick Heath

Programming languages can be copied, says EU lawyer

...someone copying a programming language, a top EU lawyer has said. Yves Bot, advocate general at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU... Read more

30 November, 2011 by David Meyer

'Socialbots' scoop 250GB of data in Facebook study

...British Columbia Vancouver said in the paper, titled The Socialbot Network: When bots socialize for fame and money (PDF).The 102 "socialbots" researchers released onto... Read more

2 November, 2011 by Steven Musil

Kaspersky finds bot that resides in memory

...a computer's RAM rather than on the hard drive. The 'fileless' bot is more difficult for antivirus software to detect, and resides in memory... Read more

20 March, 2012

BETT 2012: A Vein Viewer? Yes, and Bee-Bots

...TTS was also showing a rechargeable version of the eye-catching Bee-Bot programmable floor robot, which won a BETT Award for Early Years and... Read more

13 January, 2012
DSLR.<endeca_term>Bot</endeca_term> 3.0

DSLR.Bot 3.0

...operation. Shoot, Long Exposure, Time Lapse, HDR Bracketing and Movie Mode. DSLR.Bot also has a GPS logging feature for geo-tagging your photos. This... Read more

22 July, 2011
Alice She Talks - Chat <endeca_term>Bot</endeca_term> 1.1

Alice She Talks - Chat Bot 1.1

...hopefully better techniques and larger databases will improve the quality of the bot in the future. - Chat intuitively. Really simple user interface. - Chat anytime. Alice... Read more

26 August, 2010

Photos: Androids, learning bots and flying drones

...show floor. Users can stream real-time video of what the programmable bot is seeing through its built-in camera. Photo: Innorobo Read more

8 April, 2011 by Nick Heath
Suppressing <endeca_term>Bot</endeca_term> Traffic With Accurate Human Attestation

Suppressing Bot Traffic With Accurate Human Attestation

Human attestation is a promising technique to suppress unwanted bot traffic in the Internet. With a proof of human existence attached to... Read more

30 August, 2010
Fast-Flux <endeca_term>Bot</endeca_term> Detection in Real Time

Fast-Flux Bot Detection in Real Time

The fast-flux service network architecture has been widely adopted by bot herders to increase the productivity and extend the lifespan of botnets' domain... Read more

20 June, 2010
SpeQuloS: A QoS Service for <endeca_term>BoT</endeca_term> Applications Using Best Effort Distributed Computing Infrastructures

SpeQuloS: A QoS Service for BoT Applications Using Best Effort Distributed Computing Infrastructures

...QoS) compared to traditional infrastructures. Profiling the execution of Bag-of-Tasks (BoT) applications on several kinds of BE-DCIs demonstrates that their task completion... Read more

23 April, 2012
Beat <endeca_term>Bots</endeca_term> 2.5

Beat Bots 2.5

...all new Piano and SynthAdded settings to the info section of Beat Bots to switch the Piano Labels on and off, as well as a... Read more

22 April, 2012
Tiny <endeca_term>Bots</endeca_term> 1.0

Tiny Bots 1.0

Tiny Bots is a third person shooting game where you blast your way through... Read more

12 April, 2012

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