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Drone Cops Take Flight in Los Angeles
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Drone Cops Take Flight in Los Angeles

The machine hovered above us, at the edge of a cloud of yellow smoke billowing into the sky from a mock hazardous-waste spill.

Your Heartbeat Could Power a Smartphone
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Your Heartbeat Could Power a Smartphone

In "I Sing the Body Electric," the poet Walt Whitman waxed lyrically about the "action and power" of "beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh."

The Era of Fake Video Begins
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The Era of Fake Video Begins

In a dank corner of the internet, it is possible to find actresses from Game of Thrones or Harry Potter engaged in all manner of sex acts. Or at least to the world...

The Man With the Most Valuable Work Experience in the World
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The Man With the Most Valuable Work Experience in the World

Chris Urmson led Google's self-driving car team from its early days all the way until the company shed its Google skin and emerged under the Alphabet umbrella as...

How 'self-Driving' Trucks Connected the Australian Outback
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How 'self-Driving' Trucks Connected the Australian Outback

The trucks that roam the highways of the Australian outback are a lot bigger than the average 18-wheeler.

The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper
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The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper

For years, Barbara Simons was the loneliest of Cassandras—a technologist who feared what technology had wrought. Her cause was voting: Specifically, she believed...

Facebook's New 'ai Camera' Team Wants to Add a Layer to the World
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Facebook's New 'ai Camera' Team Wants to Add a Layer to the World

Take a video of a birthday cake's candles sparkling in an Instagram story, then tap the sticker button. Near the top of the list you'll see a slice of birthday...

You Are Already Living Inside a Computer
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You Are Already Living Inside a Computer

Suddenly, everything is a computer. Phones, of course, and televisions. Also toasters and door locks, baby monitors and juicers, doorbells and gas grills. Even ...

Inside Waymo's Secret World For Training Self-Driving Cars
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Inside Waymo's Secret World For Training Self-Driving Cars

In a corner of Alphabet's campus, there is a team working on a piece of software that may be the key to self-driving cars.

Snopes Faces an ­gly Legal Battle
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Snopes Faces an ­gly Legal Battle

On Monday, the editorial staff of Snopes.com wrote a short plea for help.

All the Promises Automakers Have Made About the Future of Cars
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All the Promises Automakers Have Made About the Future of Cars

Yet another announcement came yesterday: Volvo, the Swedish slash Chinese car company, announced that it will only offer electric or hybrid vehicles by 2019.

For Google, Everything Is a Popularity Contest
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For Google, Everything Is a Popularity Contest

When I saw that Google had introduced a "Classic Papers" section of Google Scholar, its search tool for academic journals, I couldn't help but stroke my chin professorially...

When AI Can Transcribe Everything
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When AI Can Transcribe Everything

What is the best way to describe Rupert Murdoch having a foam pie thrown at his face?

Minitel, the Open Network Before the Internet
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Minitel, the Open Network Before the Internet

In 1991, most Americans had not yet heard of the internet.

A Brief History of Seti@home
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A Brief History of Seti@home

The year was 1999, and the people were going online. AOL, Compuserve, mp3.com, and AltaVista loaded bit by bit after dial-up chirps, on screens across the world...

Car Wars
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Car Wars

The stakes are impossibly high. Self-driving cars are arguably the great technological promise of the 21st century.

The 'curious' Robots Searching For the Ocean's Secrets
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The 'curious' Robots Searching For the Ocean's Secrets

People have been exploring the Earth since ancient times—traversing deserts, climbing mountains, and trekking through forests. But there is one ecological realm...

Why Skee-Ball Doesn't Change
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Why Skee-Ball Doesn't Change

In 1909, the same year that William Howard Taft became president, the arcade game known as skee-ball made its appearance. 

America's Secret Cold War Mission to Build the First Chinese Computer
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America's Secret Cold War Mission to Build the First Chinese Computer

It was the summer of 1959, and the United States needed a Cold War win.

A New 50-Trillion-Pixel Image of Earth, Every Day
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A New 50-Trillion-Pixel Image of Earth, Every Day

It's not just that Terra Bella Avenue would be an unremarkable street in Silicon Valley.
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