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We Know Where You Live
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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...

Hackers Find Dozens of Ways into Pentagon Servers—With Permission
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Hackers Find Dozens of Ways into Pentagon Servers—With Permission

The Pentagon asked hackers to take a crack at its servers, and in response 1,400 hackers found 90 ways in, according to a tweet from the CEO of HackerOne on Friday...

Cybersecurity Sleuths Learn to Think Like Hackers
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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.

Will Robot Cars Drive Traffic Congestion Off a Cliff?
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Will Robot Cars Drive Traffic Congestion Off a Cliff?

Self-driving cars are expected to usher in a new era of mobility, safety, and convenience. The problem, say transportation researchers, is that people will use...

China's Virtual Reality Market Will Be Worth $8.5 Billion and Everyone Wants a Piece
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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.

Optical Nanocavity May Improve Solar Panels, Electronic Devices
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Optical Nanocavity May Improve Solar Panels, Electronic Devices

Engineers placed a layer of molybdenum disulfide on top of an optical nanocavity, which could aid the production of more powerful, efficient, and flexible electronic...

Nsf Grant Will Help Drones Track Wildlife
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Nsf Grant Will Help Drones Track Wildlife

Northern Arizona University researchers have been awarded a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to develop an unmanned aerial vehicle to find animals in the...

How to Hack the Hackers: The Human Side of Cyber Crime
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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".

Pentagon Turns to Silicon Valley For Edge in Artificial Intelligence
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Pentagon Turns to Silicon Valley For Edge in Artificial Intelligence

In its quest to maintain a United States military advantage, the Pentagon is aggressively turning to Silicon Valley’s hottest technology—artificial intelligence...

After Three Weeks in China, It's Clear Beijing Is Silicon Valley's Only True Competitor
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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...

Gene Variants Linked to Success at School Prove Divisive
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Gene Variants Linked to Success at School Prove Divisive

The largest-ever genetics study in the social sciences has turned up dozens of DNA markers that are linked to the number of years of formal education an individual...

Huawei Prepares For Robot Overlords and Communication with the Dead
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Huawei Prepares For Robot Overlords and Communication with the Dead

Chinese technology giant Huawei is preparing for a world where people live forever, dead relatives linger on in computers and robots try to kill humans.

In Indian Science and Technology Research, Quantity Trumps Quality
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In Indian Science and Technology Research, Quantity Trumps Quality

India's scientific publications grew 13.9%, as against the global average of 4.1%, between 2009 and 2013, according to a new report. But the paper output has not...

At Attention, Molecules!
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At Attention, Molecules!

Research on the assembly of molecules in an electrically charged fluid may help create quicker, more responsive touch screens, among other applications.

Ingestible Origami Robot
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Ingestible Origami Robot

Researchers have developed a tiny origami robot that can unfold itself from a swallowed capsule and, steered by external magnetic fields, crawl across the stomach...

What Are Chatbots? And Why Does Big Tech Love Them So Much?
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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...

Young Women in STEM Fields Earn ­p to One-Third Less Than Men
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Young Women in STEM Fields Earn ­p to One-Third Less Than Men

One year after they graduate, women with Ph.D.s in science and engineering fields earn 31 percent less than do men, according to a new study using previously unavailable...

All the Food That's Fit to Print
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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.

3-D Printing 101
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3-D Printing 101

It's been more than 30 years since the invention of 3-D printing, and yet in some ways the technology is still a frontier of unexplored potential.

New Design of Primitive Quantum Computer Finds Application
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New Design of Primitive Quantum Computer Finds Application

Scientists and engineers from the Universities of Bristol and Western Australia have developed a way to efficiently simulate a "quantum walk" on a new design for...
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