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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.

Army Cyber Teams Score Most Gold Medals at Pentagon's Yearly Hacking Tournament
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Army Cyber Teams Score Most Gold Medals at Pentagon's Yearly Hacking Tournament

The United States Military Academy at West Point took home the top prize earlier this month in Pittsburgh at CyberStakes, the Pentagon's third annual top tier hacking...

Cyber Thieves Making Millions in Profits
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Cyber Thieves Making Millions in Profits

Cyber thieves who steal credit and debit card numbers are making millions of dollars in profits, fueling a global criminal enterprise marked by the high-profile...

Would You Bet Against Sex Robots? AI 'could Leave Half of World ­nemployed'
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Would You Bet Against Sex Robots? AI 'could Leave Half of World ­nemployed'

Machines could put more than half the world's population out of a job in the next 30 years, according to a computer scientist who said on Saturday that artificial...

Legal Tussle Delays Launch of Huge Toxicity Database
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Legal Tussle Delays Launch of Huge Toxicity Database

A giant database on the health risks of nearly 10,000 chemicals will make it easier to predict the toxicity of tens of thousands of consumer products for which...

­S Military: Robot Wars
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­S Military: Robot Wars

When historians come to write about technological innovation in the first half of this century, they are likely to pay special attention to a US Navy drone called...

Gps and the World's First 'space War'
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Gps and the World's First 'space War'

Twenty-five years ago U.S.-led Coalition forces launched the world’s first "space war" when they drove Iraqi troops out of Kuwait.

The Embarrassing, Destructive Fight Over Biotech's Big Breakthrough
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The Embarrassing, Destructive Fight Over Biotech's Big Breakthrough

A defining moment in modern biology occurred on July 24, 1978, when biotechnology pioneer Robert Swanson, who had recently co-founded Genentech, brought two young...

Will AI-Powered Hedge Funds Outsmart the Market?
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Will AI-Powered Hedge Funds Outsmart the Market?

Every day computers make many millions of electronic trades by performing delicate calculations aimed at eking out a tiny edge in terms of speed or efficiency.

National Security Agency Plans Major Reorganization
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National Security Agency Plans Major Reorganization

The National Security Agency, the largest electronic spy agency in the world, is undertaking a major reorganization, merging its offensive and defensive organizations...

Election Tech Roundup: Is 2016 the Year of Psychological Profiling?
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Election Tech Roundup: Is 2016 the Year of Psychological Profiling?

The 2008 presidential election heralded wide use of online social media.

The Cloud Wars Are Seriously Heating ­p
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The Cloud Wars Are Seriously Heating ­p

Most consumers may not realize it, but there's a furious battle playing out right behind the products they use every day.  

Drone Schools Spread in China to Field Pilots For New Sector
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Drone Schools Spread in China to Field Pilots For New Sector

Joysticks at their fingertips, the mostly male students packing the classroom lift their virtual helicopters into the air, part of a new cottage industry that's...

Gerrymandering Is Even More Infuriating When You Can Actually See It
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Gerrymandering Is Even More Infuriating When You Can Actually See It

President Barack Obama spent the last chunk of his 2016 State of the Union Address talking about how to "fix our politics." His first solution? Stop gerrymandering...

Europe's Top Digital-Privacy Watchdog Zeros In on ­.s. Tech Giants
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Europe's Top Digital-Privacy Watchdog Zeros In on ­.s. Tech Giants

The latest standoff between Europe and American tech companies runs through a quiet street just north of the Louvre Museum, past chic cafes and part of the French...

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.

Why Biotech's Biggest Breakthrough Is Now In Dispute
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Why Biotech's Biggest Breakthrough Is Now In Dispute

It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: A new gene-editing technology allows scientists to precisely locate and cut out bits of DNA from live cells in bacteria...

Meet the 20 Tech Insiders Defining the 2016 Campaign
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Meet the 20 Tech Insiders Defining the 2016 Campaign

Look—We have no idea how this election will turn out.

Bitter Fight Over Crispr Patent Heats Up
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Bitter Fight Over Crispr Patent Heats Up

A versatile technique for editing genomes has been called the biggest biotechnology advancesince the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and the US Patent and Trademark...

Ibm's Latest Patent Trove Looks to Make Computers More Humanlike
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Ibm's Latest Patent Trove Looks to Make Computers More Humanlike

No matter how much we love our devices, they have more than a few shortcomings.
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