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Controversial Chinese Cybersecurity Law Enters Home Stretch For Approval
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Controversial Chinese Cybersecurity Law Enters Home Stretch For Approval

A controversial Chinese cybersecurity law that has sparked protests from foreign governments and business groups neared approval on Monday as parliament held the...

Nate Silver Blew It When He Missed Trump. Now He Really Needs to Get It Right.
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Nate Silver Blew It When He Missed Trump. Now He Really Needs to Get It Right.

Nate Silver is on the downtown 1 train. Possibly because he looks like a (modestly) hip math teacher, and hardly looks up from his phone, he goes unrecognized until...

How AI Is Shaking ­p the Chip Market
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How AI Is Shaking ­p the Chip Market

In less than 12 hours, three different people offered to pay me if I'd spend an hour talking to a stranger on the phone.

IBM Is Counting on Its Bet on Watson, and Paying Big Money For It
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IBM Is Counting on Its Bet on Watson, and Paying Big Money For It

Watson, can you grow into a multibillion-dollar business and become the engine of IBM's resurgence?

AI Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Is Launching Element Ai, a Deep-Learning Incubator
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AI Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Is Launching Element Ai, a Deep-Learning Incubator

Yoshua Bengio, one of the leading figures behind the rise of deep learning, is launching a Silicon Valley-style startup incubator dedicated to this enormously influential...

Twitter's 'firehose' of Tweets Is Incredibly Valuable, and Just as Dangerous
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Twitter's 'firehose' of Tweets Is Incredibly Valuable, and Just as Dangerous

There are half a billion tweets a day. For the company, they’re sellable data. For despots, they’re a great way to hunt dissidents.

Six Contractors Have Begun Work on Nasa's Gateway to Deep Space
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Six Contractors Have Begun Work on Nasa's Gateway to Deep Space

NASA has a problem.

Vulnerability Is the Internet's Original Sin
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Vulnerability Is the Internet's Original Sin

On the day (perhaps not long from now) when the entire internet crashes, no one will be able to say that we didn’t see it coming.

The Pentagon's 'terminator Conundrum': Robots That Could Kill on Their Own
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The Pentagon's 'terminator Conundrum': Robots That Could Kill on Their Own

The small drone, with its six whirring rotors, swept past the replica of a Middle Eastern village and closed in on a mosque-like structure, its camera scanning...

Why It Was So Easy to Hack the Cameras that Took Down the Web
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Why It Was So Easy to Hack the Cameras that Took Down the Web

If you were anywhere near the internet in the US on Friday, you probably noticed a bunch of your favorite websites were down for much of the day. Now experts are...

Wearable Robotic Exoskeleton Aims For Human Gait Rehab
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Wearable Robotic Exoskeleton Aims For Human Gait Rehab

Stroke and spinal cord injury rehab may soon be improved by a wearable robotic exoskeleton designed by a team of researchers in China and Denmark.

Silicon Valley Decides It's Just Too Hard to Build a Car
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Silicon Valley Decides It's Just Too Hard to Build a Car

Bill Ford is tired of hearing the future of cars belongs to Silicon Valley.

Telecom's Next Battle Will Take Place in the Web's Slow Lane
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Telecom's Next Battle Will Take Place in the Web's Slow Lane

After decades spent developing ever-faster networks that can do everything from stream Beyonce videos to steer driverless cars, the telecom industry has found a...

​AI Expert: Super-Smart Cars Are Just a Glorious Beginning
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​AI Expert: Super-Smart Cars Are Just a Glorious Beginning

Prepare for your car to become an intellectual giant—and for you to like it.

The Power of Prediction Markets
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The Power of Prediction Markets

It was a great way to mix science with gambling, says Anna Dreber.

Blockchain Platform Developed By Banks to Be Open-Source
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Blockchain Platform Developed By Banks to Be Open-Source

A blockchain platform developed by a group that includes more than 70 of the world's biggest financial institutions is making its code publicly available, in what...

Why Isn't the U.s. Better at Predicting Extreme Weather?
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Why Isn't the U.s. Better at Predicting Extreme Weather?

At 11 o'clock on the night of Sept. 29, the National Hurricane Center in Miami posted an updated prediction for Hurricane Matthew.

CIA Prepping For Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia
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CIA Prepping For Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia

The Obama administration is contemplating an unprecedented cyber covert action against Russia in retaliation for alleged Russian interference in the American presidential...

Prepping a Robot For Its Journey to Mars
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Prepping a Robot For Its Journey to Mars

MIT senior Sarah Hensley aims to improve Earth's most advanced humanoid robot, in advance of its trip to the Red Planet.

Leo Beranek, Acoustics Designer and Internet Pioneer, Dies at 102
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Leo Beranek, Acoustics Designer and Internet Pioneer, Dies at 102

Leo L. Beranek, an engineer whose company designed the acoustics for the United Nations and concert halls at Lincoln Center and Tanglewood, then built the direct...
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