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Why Am I Getting So Many Robocalls?
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Why Am I Getting So Many Robocalls?

People with landline home phones have long suffered unwanted marketing calls. Now these spam calls have made their way to our mobile phones in a big way.

Bringing Neural Networks to Cellphones
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Bringing Neural Networks to Cellphones

Researchers at MIT have developed a battery of techniques for modeling neural networks' power consumption which could make the systems available for mobile devices...

Silicon Valley Mostly Quiet in Internet Surveillance Debate in Congress
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Silicon Valley Mostly Quiet in Internet Surveillance Debate in Congress

Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc's Google, Apple Inc and other major technology firms are largely absent from a debate over the renewal of a broad U.S. internet surveillance...

Spreading Fake News Becomes Standard Practice For Governments Across the World
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Spreading Fake News Becomes Standard Practice For Governments Across the World

Campaigns to manipulate public opinion through false or misleading social media postings have become standard political practice across much of the world, with...

Wimbledon 2017: The Tech Behind the World's Top Tennis Tournament
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Wimbledon 2017: The Tech Behind the World's Top Tennis Tournament

The Championships at Wimbledon, which consumes some 28 tons of strawberries, 10,000 litres of cream, and 320,000 glasses of Pimm's per year, is notable for its...

Why Haven't Reporters Mass-Adopted Secure Tools For Communicating With Sources?
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Why Haven't Reporters Mass-Adopted Secure Tools For Communicating With Sources?

In the months since Donald Trump took office, Washington has been leaking like a sieve.

How an Mlb All-Star's Secret Weapon Can Help You Hit Better, Too
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How an Mlb All-Star's Secret Weapon Can Help You Hit Better, Too

Three months ago, Houston Astros All-Star shortstop Carlos Correa flat out told me he was going to have a breakout season and tech was going to play a big role....

In Reporting on North Korea, Tech Helps Break Through Secrecy
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In Reporting on North Korea, Tech Helps Break Through Secrecy

How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? Choe Sang-Hun, The Times's Korea correspondent who is based in Seoul...

This Iphone Designer Says No More Screens
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This Iphone Designer Says No More Screens

In June 2016, Tony Fadell, the chief executive officer of Nest and one of the most important hardware executives of his generation, announced that he was leaving...

How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding Into American Classrooms
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How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding Into American Classrooms

At a White House gathering of tech titans last week, Timothy D. Cook, the chief executive of Apple, delivered a blunt message to President Trump on how public schools...

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...

Study Confirms: Social Media Friends Are Happier Than You Are
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Study Confirms: Social Media Friends Are Happier Than You Are

A new study provide scientific evidence for what many people feel when they log into Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram: everyone else is having more fun.

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.

New Simpler Parkinson's Tests Probe Walking, Talking, Typing
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New Simpler Parkinson's Tests Probe Walking, Talking, Typing

People with Parkinson's disease may show hints of motor difficulty years before an official diagnosis, but current methods for catching early symptoms require clinic...

Why Car Companies Are Hiring Computer Security Experts
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Why Car Companies Are Hiring Computer Security Experts

It started about seven years ago. Iran's top nuclear scientists were being assassinated in a string of similar attacks: Assailants on motorcycles were pulling up...

Apple Just Joined Tech's Great Race to Democratize AI
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Apple Just Joined Tech's Great Race to Democratize AI

Apple's iMac updates and new HomePod speaker drew most of the attention at the company's World Wide Developers keynote. But tucked away in the middle were a short...

Even Simple Cell Phone Conversations Can Cause Distracted Driving
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Even Simple Cell Phone Conversations Can Cause Distracted Driving

Research from the University of Iowa indicates that even simple cell phone conversations can affect the brain's ability to focus on the roadway.

How to Call B.s. on Big Data: A Practical Guide
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How to Call B.s. on Big Data: A Practical Guide

"Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you," the Oxford philosophy professor John Alexander Smith told...

Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89
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Jean Sammet, Co-Designer of a Pioneering Computer Language, Dies at 89

Jean E. Sammet, an early software engineer and a designer of COBOL, a programming language that brought computing into the business mainstream, died on May 20 in...
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