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Techies Are Trying to Turn the Nba Into the World's Biggest Sports League
In 2014, the Los Angeles Clippers were just getting used to being a good basketball team.
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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.
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What's Driving Silicon Valley to Become 'radicalized'
Like many Silicon Valley start-ups, Larry Gadea's company collects heaps of sensitive data from his customers.
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China Quietly Targets .s. Tech Companies in Security Reviews
Chinese authorities are quietly scrutinizing technology products sold in China by Apple and other big foreign companies, focusing on whether they pose potential...
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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...
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Peek Into the Weird and Wonderful Age of AI (yes, There's a Chatbot)
On March 23, Microsoft revealed Tay, a Twitter bot trained to chat like a millennial. It worked … too well.
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Stanford Study Finds Telephone Metadata Reveals Sensitive Personal Information
Stanford researchers show that telephone metadata can alone reveal a surprising amount of personal detail. The work could help inform future policies for government...
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These Gloves Offer a Modern Twist on Sign Language
For years, inventors have been trying to convert some sign language words and letters into textand speech. Now a pair of University of Washington undergraduates...
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The Ipad Has Arrived to (someday) Change Baseball Forever
Minutes before the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics trot onto the field during an overcast May afternoon, A's bullpen coach Scott Emerson strides along the...
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We Know Where You Live
Researchers have shown that the location stamps on just a handful of Twitter posts can disclose the addresses of the poster's home and workplace to a relatively...
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Cybersecurity Sleuths Learn to Think Like Hackers
About 35 high-school students sit at neatly arranged rows of tables in the university's gym. Another 115 college-level contestants surround the high schoolers.
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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.
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How to Hack the Hackers: The Human Side of Cyber Crime
Say what you will about cybercriminals, says Angela Sasse, "their victims rave about the customer service".
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After Three Weeks in China, It's Clear Beijing Is Silicon Valley's Only True Competitor
After selling my startup, Shopkick, to SK Planet in 2014, and handing over my CEO role a year later, I packed up my 1- and 3-year-old sons and my wife Angel, and...
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What Are Chatbots? And Why Does Big Tech Love Them So Much?
Chatbots! They're all the rage: Kik has them, Facebook wants them, and it seems like every computer coder wants to make them. But what are they? And why is every...
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All the Food That's Fit to Print
The recipe for peach Melba is thought to date back to 1893, when Nellie Melba and Auguste Escoffier were rubbing elbows at the Savoy Hotel, in London.
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