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Crooks Are ­sing an International Messaging System to Rob Banks
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Crooks Are ­sing an International Messaging System to Rob Banks

The central bank of Bangladesh was the victim of one of the biggest bank heists of all time in February, when thieves made off with $81 million.

How the Constant Threat of War Shaped Israel's Tech Industry
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How the Constant Threat of War Shaped Israel's Tech Industry

Unit 8200 is Israel's most mysterious agency. No one outside knows exactly how it operates, who works there, or how they learn.

The Satellite Industry Is Fueled By Your Need For Global Connectivity
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The Satellite Industry Is Fueled By Your Need For Global Connectivity

When Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies (known as SpaceX) set a rocket down on a barge floating in the Atlantic Ocean on May 6, many cheered it as the latest...

China's Virtual Reality Market Will Be Worth $8.5 Billion and Everyone Wants a Piece
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China's Virtual Reality Market Will Be Worth $8.5 Billion and Everyone Wants a Piece

Hip-hop dancers, military marchers and daredevils in winged suits are bringing China's Internet titans into the world of virtual reality.

Huawei Prepares For Robot Overlords and Communication with the Dead
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Huawei Prepares For Robot Overlords and Communication with the Dead

Chinese technology giant Huawei is preparing for a world where people live forever, dead relatives linger on in computers and robots try to kill humans.

Artificial Intelligence For Everyday ­se: Coming Soon
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Artificial Intelligence For Everyday ­se: Coming Soon

Real-world artificial-intelligence applications are popping up in unexpected places—and much sooner than you might think.

Microsoft Strikes Partnership With Banks on Blockchain Tech
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Microsoft Strikes Partnership With Banks on Blockchain Tech

Microsoft Inc. has pulled ahead of Alphabet Inc.'s Google, International Business Machines Corp., and Amazon.com Inc. in the race for supremacy in operating other...

Apple Bruised
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Apple Bruised

Did Apple win? Or the U.S. government? Neither did.

Remembering Silicon Valley's First Giant, Intel's Andrew Grove
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Remembering Silicon Valley's First Giant, Intel's Andrew Grove

Silicon Valley is full of logical absolutists, people who will follow a line of argument wherever it goes, no matter what the human repercussions.

Silicon Valley Rides Obama's Coattails Into Cuba
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Silicon Valley Rides Obama's Coattails Into Cuba

President Barack Obama is in Cuba, and Silicon Valley is tagging along for the ride.

Israel Cyber Cadets Train in Harry Potter-Inspired War Zone
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Israel Cyber Cadets Train in Harry Potter-Inspired War Zone

The Israeli military's elite Cyber Command is honing its skills at Hogwarts.

Automakers Go Back to School to Learn to Build Self-Driving Cars
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Automakers Go Back to School to Learn to Build Self-Driving Cars

Automakers didn't build the self-driving car: Google did.

What Happens When the Surveillance State Becomes an Affordable Gadget?
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What Happens When the Surveillance State Becomes an Affordable Gadget?

When Daniel Rigmaiden was a little boy, his grandfather, a veteran of World War II and Korea, used to drive him along the roads of Monterey, California, playing...

China's Great Tech Wealth Machine
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China's Great Tech Wealth Machine

Wang Feng is the kind of successful tech entrepreneur whom private wealth bankers from Goldman Sachs to Credit Suisse would love to land as a client.

The Most Important Apple Executive You've Never Heard Of
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The Most Important Apple Executive You've Never Heard Of

A little over a year ago, Apple had a problem: The iPad Pro was behind schedule.

Urban Miners Hunt For Gold in Piles of Electronic Trash
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Urban Miners Hunt For Gold in Piles of Electronic Trash

Wrapped in plastic and piled outside a warehouse in northern Taiwan are small mountains of notebook computers, PC displays, keyboards and old glass monitors.

Subcultron: Swarming Robots That Keep an Eye on Waterways
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Subcultron: Swarming Robots That Keep an Eye on Waterways

Innovator: Thomas Schmickl  Age: 46  Zoology professor and founder of the Artificial Life Laboratory at the University of Graz in Austria

Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders?
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Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders?

In the fall of 2013 a young software engineer named Charles Pratt arrived on Howard University's campus in Washington.

The First Person to Hack the Iphone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage
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The First Person to Hack the Iphone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage

A few days before Thanksgiving, George Hotz, a 26-year-old hacker, invites me to his house in San Francisco to check out a project he’s been working on.

Apple Is Getting More Bang For Its R&d Buck
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Apple Is Getting More Bang For Its R&d Buck

Silicon Valley is aglow from so-called moonshots.
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