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The U.S. government on Wednesday unveiled its latest weapon against illegal immigrants crossing the U.S. border: "Elvis" the ultimate lie-detecting virtual border control officer with a near-perfect, 90 percent, accuracy rate when spotting deception.

Tech companies are developing applications to peep into the windows of your soul.

Want a job at a public agency? Well, you'd better be prepared to hand over your Facebook password or "friend" the HR department rep during your interview.

Computerized sleeves may soon allow manufacturing bosses to monitor and record workers' moves and mine them for efficiency data.

What Happens When Our Cellphones Can Predict Our Every Move?

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has quietly released details of plans to continuously monitor the global output of Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, offering a rare glimpse into an activity that the FBI and other government agencies are reluctant to discuss publicly. The plans show that the bureau believes it can use information pulled from social media sites to better respond to crises, and maybe even to foresee them.

Chief Scientists of the Air Force usually spend their time trying to figure out how to make jets go insanely fast or build better satellites. Which makes Dr. Mark Maybury, today’s chief scientist, a bit of an outlier. He’d like to build a set of sensors that peer into people’s souls — and forecast wars before they erupt.

Information technology has become a ubiquitous presence. By visualizing the processes that underlie our interactions with this technology we can trace what happens to the information we feed into the network.