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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Researchers Index Dark Web, Find Most of It Contains Illegal Material
King's College London researchers recently conducted a study to discover how much of Tor is devoted to illegal content.
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Showdown in Europe Over Privacy Has .s. Firms Ducking For Cover
The free flow of data across the Atlantic, the lifeblood of modern business dealings, faces an uncertain future, despite a belated, high-level deal between European...
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How to Get Online in Cuba
Every afternoon, crowds of Cubans gather outside Havana's top hotels—mob boss Meyer Lansky's favorite Nacional de Cuba, Ernest Hemingway's old haunt Ambos Mundos...
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Hack-Proof Rfid Chips
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Texas Instruments have developed a virtually hack-proof radio-frequency identification chip.
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The Massive New Privacy Deal Between U.s. and Europe, Explained
U.S. and European regulators have agreed to a tentative deal, officials say, that would allow thousands of U.S. companies to continue moving the personal information...
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Making Our Digital World Safer From Cyberattacks
Researchers are working to help ensure cybersecurity develops in conjunction with changes in technology and with emerging threats.
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How Do Americans Weigh Privacy Versus National Security?
Three years ago, Edward Snowden leaked troves of previously classified information that laid bare the American government's widespread surveillance of its citizens...
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If You Go Near the Super Bowl, You Will Be Surveilled Hard
Super Bowl 50 will be big in every way.
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How to Make Your Own Nsa Bulk Surveillance System
A network surveillance and security issues expert built a miniature bulk surveillance system like the one used by the U.S. National Security Agency.
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At Berkeley, a New Digital Privacy Protest
After hackers breached the computer network of the U.C.L.A. medical center last summer, Janet Napolitano, president of the University of California, and her office...
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Techiest Super Bowl Ever: Silicon Valley's Stadium Girds For the Big Game
Levi's Stadium has been in beta since it opened a year and a half ago.
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Researchers Discover Malicious Computer Code
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers say they have discovered and traced six botnets by analyzing data collected from past cyberattacks.
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A Search Engine For Your Memories
People are always forgetting names. That's because, at least in part, names are arbitrary. A name, in and of itself, doesn't offer much context.
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New Technologies Give Government Ample Means to Track Suspects, Study Finds
U.S. intelligence agencies' persistent warning that encrypted communications will prevent them from tracking criminals is greatly distorted.
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Scientists Decode Brain Signals Nearly at Speed of Perception
Using electrodes implanted in the temporal lobes of awake patients, scientists have decoded brain signals at nearly the speed of perception.
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Are We Thinking About Artificial Intelligence All Wrong?
Computer scientist and author Jerry Kaplan contends a rethink of artificial intelligence may be necessary.
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Csi: Cyberattack Scene Investigation--a Malware Whodunit
Forensic probes of cyberattacks can uncover their modus operandi and severity, but finding perpetrators is a difficult proposition.
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Nsa Hacker Chief Explains How to Keep Him Out of Your System
It was the talk most anticipated at this year's inaugural Usenix Enigma security conference in San Francisco and one that even the other speakers were eager to...
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Is Blockchain the Most Important It Invention of Our Age?
There are not many occasions when one can give an unqualified thumbs-up to something the government does, but this is one such occasion.
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