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Americans are drowning in spam

Americans received an average of 42 spam text messages in March, according to data collected by RoboKiller, an app that blocks spam calls and text messages. Spammers like to send text messages because this form of spam has a high open rate and can easily send massive amounts of information while hiding identities. Besides text …

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Google denies deblurring satellite images of sensitive Russian sites

Widespread media reports on Monday said that satellite images of Russian military installations on Google Maps had a resolution of 0.5 meters. Civilian high-resolution satellite photos are very valuable to open source intelligence analysts, although the 0.5-meter resolution may be much lower than the military reconnaissance satellites in use by the U.S. military. A Ukrainian …

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