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How Human Nature Could Foil Tesla's New Autopilot
Researchers and driving safety experts warn the new autopilot option installed in most Tesla vehicles could cause unsafe conditions.
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With Court Order, Federal Judge Seeks to Fuel Debate About Data Encryption
A federal judge in New York is seeking to expand to the courts the hot debate over whether tech companies should be forced to find ways to unlock encrypted smartphones...
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How Artificial Intelligence Could Lead to Self-Healing Airplanes
Boeing and Carnegie Mellon University have launched an Aerospace Data Analytics Lab to mine insights from the vast body of data generated by the aerospace industry...
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Thought Process: Building an Artificial Brain
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is funding a pair of parallel projects to understand the nature of intelligence.
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How Google's Self-Driving Cars May Handle the Toughest Situations
Left-hand turns are one of the tougher things drivers have to do.
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The Strange Link Between Global Climate Change and the Rise of the Robots
A recent paper concluded humans would not stand a chance against super-intelligent robots following a hypothetical mass extinction event.
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This Algorithm Can Create a New Van Gogh or Picasso in Just an Hour
German researchers have outlined a method of using deep learning to turn regular photographs into images in the style of great painters.
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.S. Developing Sanctions Against China Over Cyberthefts
The Obama administration is developing a package of unprecedented economic sanctions against Chinese companies and individuals who have benefited from their government's...
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Standardized Tests May Be Holding Back the Next Generation of Computer Programmers
Educating students to pass standardized tests, which command most school administrators' time, leaves little room for computer science classes to train the next...
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Could Hackers Take Down a City?
Researchers warn of the possibility of cyberattackers crippling a city because of urban centers' increasing reliance on technology.
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Why the Ftc Is Showing p at Hackers' Biggest Conferences
The Federal Trade Commission, the de facto federal watchdog for consumers' privacy and data security, knows it needs help.
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This Small Change Could Make a Big Difference For Accessible Technology
Yahoo, Facebook, and several other technology companies said they will inform job applicants that accessibility knowledge is "preferred" to land a job with them...
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Inside the Fake Town in Michigan Where Self-Driving Cars Are Being Tested
Later this year a Michigan pedestrian named Sebastian will spend his days throwing himself in the path of speeding cars.
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How the Audacious Pentagon Agency That Invented the Internet Is Now Trying to Save It
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is rethinking the underlying mechanisms of cybersecurity to focus on preventive measures instead of simply breach...
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Watson's Next Feat? Taking on Cancer
IBM's Watson supercomputer is being trained to find personalized cancer treatments.
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June Will End with a Rare 61-Second Minute
We'll need to wait for July just a shade longer, as the world's timekeepers have added a leap second June 30—to officially keep Earth and our precise, atomic clocks...
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A Disaster Foretold — and Ignored
LOpht's warnings about the Internet drew notice, but little action.
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Inside an MIT Researcher's Grand Plan to Create the Personal Food Computer
The CityFarm research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab seeks to expand the emerging field of vertical farming.
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Facial Recognition Technology Is Everywhere. It May Not Be Legal.
Being anonymous in public might be a thing of the past.
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