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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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How does a bike stay upright? Surprisingly, it's all in the mind
It's as easy as riding a bike … or so the saying goes. But how do we manage to stay upright on a bicycle? If anyone ventures an answer they most often say that...
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Gov't report: Feds spend billions to run ancient technology
The government is spending about three-fourths of its technology budget maintaining aging computer systems, including platforms more than 50 years old in vital...
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We need to know the algorithms the government uses to make important decisions about us
In criminal justice systems, credit markets, employment arenas, higher education admissions processes and even social media networks, data-driven algorithms now...
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Algerian authorities destroy mountain of pirated CDs, DVDs
Power shovels and a bulldozer have destroyed a huge mound of 2 million illegally copied CDs and DVDs outside Algeria's Culture Ministry, as part of a government...
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Perception research with motion simulators
In the Cyberneum at the Tübingen-based Max Planck Campus, people are transported into virtual worlds in order to investigate how our brain processes impressions...
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Smaller cities across US opening high-tech crime centers
Live video feeds from cameras across Hartford, Connecticut, light up a wall of flat-screen monitors in a high-tech room at the city's old police department, while...
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EgyptAir MS804: search and rescue at sea is never easy
The disappearance of EgyptAir flight MS804, presumed lost over the eastern Mediterranean on a flight between Paris and Cairo with all 66 on board, is the latest...
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3-D candy-maker billed as world's first arrives in New York
Now there's yet another market for 3-D printer-enthusiasts: candy.
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Is Kelly Slater's artificial wave the future of surfing?
Surfers had never seen a spot like it: head-high waves unfurling like wrapping paper in pristine, tapering cylinders for more than a quarter-mile, with not a soul...
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Could Hollywood technology help your health?
The same technology used by the entertainment industry to animate characters such as Gollum in The Lord of The Rings films, will be used to help train elite athletes...
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Dynamic dazzle distorts speed
Dazzle camouflage, as used on World War I battleships to fool U-boat commanders, has been modernised for the twenty-first century with moving patterns.
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Football fans to get smartphone vote to substitute player
An English Premier League club wants to allow supporters to vote via smartphone for the player they want substituted during a match, a data analyst has told a Doha...
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'Technical issue' briefly cripples Swedish air traffic
"A technical issue" temporarily affected air traffic control operations in large parts of Sweden on Thursday, barring planes from taking off for 90 minutes, authorities...
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Why we need to do more for the victims of online fraud and scams
As we come to the end of National Consumer Fraud Awareness Week, I can't help but reflect on my own work researching this difficult and often fraught area.
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Opinion: Four arguments for ethical online shaming (and four problems with them)
In democracies, it's pretty difficult to bring about any agreement on anything. So when there is general consensus that something is a problem, I think it's a good...
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Innovations are needed if Big Data is to boost jobs, says new research
Phenomenal quantities of valuable data are now being collected and created by UK businesses but much of its commercial potential remains untapped.
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France deploying anti-drone technology to protect Euro 2016
France will deploy anti-drone technology to interfere with and take control of any flying machines that violate no-fly zones over stadiums at the European Championship...
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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 16
Monday, May 16, 2016 House Floor: H.R. 4743, National Cybersecurity Preparedness Consortium Act of 2016, as amended House Floor Tuesday, May 17, 2016 Hearing: Oversight...
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Construction experts at University of Pittsburgh symposium call for bamboo to become 21st century building material
Bamboo has a critical role to play in the provision of safe and affordable housing and could be a key contributor to greener urban environments worldwide, according...
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