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Facebook Yanks Content Tied to Iranian Effort Due to 'Inauthentic Behavior'
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Facebook Yanks Content Tied to Iranian Effort Due to 'Inauthentic Behavior'

Today, Facebook took down 30 pages, 33 Facebook accounts, three Facebook groups, and 16 Instagram accounts that Facebook's head of Cybersecurity Policy Nathaniel...

China Rattles Washington's Tech Debates
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China Rattles Washington's Tech Debates

A common thread is running through nearly every tech debate in Washington these days: fear that an ambitious China is poised to win the next wave of technology....

Prepping for a Flood of Heavenly Bodies
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Prepping for a Flood of Heavenly Bodies

This is a story of getting the good out of the bad, said Mario Jurić.

Baidu's AI Can Do Simultaneous Translation Between Any Two Languages
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Baidu's AI Can Do Simultaneous Translation Between Any Two Languages

Would-be travelers of the galaxy, rejoice: The Chinese tech giant Baidu has invented a translation system that brings us one step closer to a software Babel fish...

How We Saved the Deep Space 1 Spacecraft
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How We Saved the Deep Space 1 Spacecraft

On Sept. 22, 2001, about 50 people huddled around computer monitors in a control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, some more anxious...

­.S. Begins First Cyberoperation Against Russia Aimed at Protecting Elections
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­.S. Begins First Cyberoperation Against Russia Aimed at Protecting Elections

The United States Cyber Command is targeting individual Russian operatives to try to deter them from spreading disinformation to interfere in elections, telling...

Apple CEO to Warn Big Tech Must Keep ­sers' Trust
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Apple CEO to Warn Big Tech Must Keep ­sers' Trust

Apple's chief executive is expected to warn that technology companies must maintain the trust and confidence of their users if they want to achieve their true potential...

Europe and ­S Lock Horns on Transatlantic Privacy
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Europe and ­S Lock Horns on Transatlantic Privacy

Europe's effort to export its tough privacy rules around the world is about to run into a wall of U.S. resistance.

Student's Space-Detecting Algorithm Leads Drivers to Empty Parking Spot
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Student's Space-Detecting Algorithm Leads Drivers to Empty Parking Spot

Sai Nikhil Reddy Mettupally, a graduate student at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, developed a space-detecting algorithm that relies on data analytics...

Why the Search for Aliens Could ­nite ­s Here on Earth
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Why the Search for Aliens Could ­nite ­s Here on Earth

If aliens are trying to talk to us (or even if they are not), Jill Tarter will be the one to find them.

Shaken by Hype, Self-Driving Leaders Adopt New Strategy: Shutting ­p
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Shaken by Hype, Self-Driving Leaders Adopt New Strategy: Shutting ­p

Three former executives at Google, Tesla and Uber who once raced to be the first to develop self-driving cars have adopted a new strategy: Slow down. And shut up...

New Data Science Method Makes Charts Easier to Read at a Glance
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New Data Science Method Makes Charts Easier to Read at a Glance

The "Pixel Approximate Entropy" technique, which provides a score to quantify the visual complexity of difficult charts, could help users in emergency settings...

In Facebook's Effort to Fight Fake News, Human Fact-Checkers Struggle to Keep ­p
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In Facebook's Effort to Fight Fake News, Human Fact-Checkers Struggle to Keep ­p

At Facebook Inc. headquarters in Silicon Valley this week, engineers and researchers huddled around computers in a newly configured "war room" to fight misinformation...

Scientists to Debate Landing Site for Next Mars Rover
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Scientists to Debate Landing Site for Next Mars Rover

Hundreds of scientists and Mars-exploration enthusiasts will convene in a hotel ballroom just north of Los Angeles later this week to present, discuss and deliberate...

Any Way the Wind Blows
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Any Way the Wind Blows

Argonne researchers recently participated in a project to build numerical models that account for complex wind patterns in complex terrain to improve short-term...

Google Really Is Trying to Build a Censored Chinese Search Engine, Its CEO Confirms
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Google Really Is Trying to Build a Censored Chinese Search Engine, Its CEO Confirms

Google on Monday finally confirmed a secretive project that's been fueling an employee-led backlash for weeks at the company: an effort to build a version of its...

There May Soon Be Three Internets. America's Won't Necessarily Be the Best.
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There May Soon Be Three Internets. America's Won't Necessarily Be the Best.

In September, Eric Schmidt, the former Google chief executive and Alphabet chairman, said that in the next 10 to 15 years, the internet would most likely be split...

M.I.T. Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1 Billion
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M.I.T. Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1 Billion

Every major university is wrestling with how to adapt to the technology wave of artificial intelligence—how to prepare students not only to harness the powerful...

The 50 Most Influential Living Computer Scientists
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The 50 Most Influential Living Computer Scientists

TheBestSchools.org compiled a list of 50 mathematicians, logicians, and computer scientists who did most of the scientific spadework that laid the foundations for...

Paper Describes Baidu Neural Net Approach to Match Job Openings With Candidates
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Paper Describes Baidu Neural Net Approach to Match Job Openings With Candidates

A team at the Chinese technology firm Baidu has presented a proposed neural network trained to analyze resumes to determine the best job candidates for openings...
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