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ICE recently purchased two programs called Tangles and Webloc, which are used to track the cell phone activity of entire ...

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X's Nikita Bier announced the development of Smart Cashtags, a feature enabling users to specify assets or smart contracts ...

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The North American Aerospace Defense Command defends North American airspace 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. But on Christmas Eve, it tackles perhaps its most important mission: tracking Santa Claus ...

Santa Claus is officially on the move. Old Saint Nick is now atop his sleigh this Christmas Eve, delivering presents to boys and girls who have been nice all year. He reportedly travels nearly a ...

Flight tracker apps are a popular way to keep tabs on planes in the sky, because when you're preparing to fly or when someone you know is on board a flight, you can use them to check that things are ...

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