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Apple Sees Value in Its Stand to Protect Security
It took six years for Apple to persuade China's largest wireless carrier, China Mobile, to sell the iPhone.
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Apple's Fbi Battle Is Complicated. Here's What's Really Going On
The news this week that a magistrate ordered Apple to help the FBI hack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooter suspects has polarized the nation—and...
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Pluto's 'hulk-Like' Moon Charon: A Possible Ancient Ocean?
Pluto's largest moon may have gotten too big for its own skin.
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Ted 2016: Hololens nveils 'teleportation' to Mars
HoloLens creator Alex Kipman has shown off Microsoft's augmented reality technology at the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference.
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Enabling Human-Robot Rescue Teams
Researchers say they have developed a new way of modeling robot collaboration.
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Encryption Isn't at Stake, the Fbi Knows Apple Already Has the Desired Key
Apple has been served with a court order at the FBI's request, demanding that it assist the government agency with unlocking an iPhone 5C that was used by Syed...
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The Missing Link of Artificial Intelligence
In 2012 the world learned of a surprising research project inside Google's secretive X lab.
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Four Big Cosmology Secrets Gravitational Waves Could ncover
On 11 February, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave observatory, or LIGO, announced it had spotted gravitational waves, the stretching and squeezing of...
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Evidence Mounts For Interbreeding Bonanza in Ancient Human Species
The discovery of yet another period of interbreeding between early humans and Neanderthals is adding to the growing sense that sexual encounters among different...
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How the Open Compute Project's Telco Project Could Transform the Iot, Driverless Cars
The Open Compute Project recently announced the Telco Project, which is focused on data center technologies for telecommunications companies.
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New Computer Vision Algorithm Predicts Orientation of Objects
Disney researchers say they have developed a method to help computer-vision systems avoid the confusion associated with changes in perspective.
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Crunching Quantum Code
Researchers have developed a quantum computer design featuring an array of superconducting islands on top of a topological insulator.
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How Apple Will Fight the Doj in Iphone Backdoor Crypto Case
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday evening said the US government's legal position on encryption backdoors was setting "a dangerous precedent."
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Advertising via Algorithm
Global programmatic advertising is projected to account for 60% of all digital display ads this year.
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Why Naval Academy Students Are Learning to Sail By the Stars For the First Time in a Decade
Peter Hogan was surprised at how heavy the sextant felt in his hand when he squinted through its eyeglass this week, the first time he had ever held one.
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Q&a: A Look at the Apple vs Justice Dept. Court Fight
A U.S. magistrate judge has ordered Apple to help the FBI break into a work-issued iPhone used by a gunman in the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.
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Why Sarcasm Is Such a Problem in Artificial Intelligence
Researchers in India and Australia recently published a paper outlining 10 years of research efforts from groups interested in detecting sarcasm in online sources...
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Tim Cook Opposes Order For Apple to nlock Iphone, Setting p Showdown
Apple said on Wednesday that it would oppose and challenge a federal court order to help the F.B.I. unlock an iPhone used by one of the two attackers who killed...
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