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Searching for the Particle Accelerator at the Heart of the Milky Way
We're rightly proud of the Large Hadron Collider, which accelerates protons up to 7 Tera-electron Volts before smashing them together.
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China Is Building a Big Data Platform For 'precrime'
It's "precrime" meets "thoughtcrime."
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On-Chip Random Key Generation Done sing Carbon Nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes are small and can be semiconducting, which makes lots of people excited about using them as a replacement for features etched in silicon.
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Tiny, Blurry Pictures Find the Limits of Computer Image Recognition
Computers have started to get really good at visual recognition.
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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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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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Europe's Top Court Mulls Legality of Hyperlinks to Copyrighted Content
Europe's highest court is considering whether every hyperlink in a Web page should be checked for potentially linking to material that infringes copyright, before...
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Models of Pedestrian Flow Stumble Because People Change Their Minds
The flow of pedestrians is a critical part of the design of buildings, stadiums, and much more.
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Star's Bizarre Optical Antics Go Back at Least a Century
For over a century, a star's bizarre behavior has been hiding in plain sight.
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Gene Editing Shows Promise in Treating Muscular Dystrophy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is one of the most common fatal genetic diseases. It causes muscle degeneration and eventually death due to weakened heart and lung...
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Two Atoms Make Quantum Memory, Processing Gate, and Test of Entanglement
Quantum systems are inherently fragile as any interactions with the outside world can change their state.
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Attempt No Landing There? Yeah Right—We're Going to Europa
It is a nightmare glacier, tormented by the giant of our Solar System ever looming on its horizon.
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MIT ses Wireless Signals to Identify People Through Walls
MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab is developing a device that uses wireless signals to identify human figures through walls.
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Nsa Advisory Sparks Concern of Secret Advance shering in Cryptoapocalypse
In August, National Security Agency officials advised US agencies and businesses to prepare for a not-too-distant time when the cryptography protecting virtually...
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How the Nsa Can Break Trillions of Encrypted Web and Vpn Connections
For years, privacy advocates have pushed developers of websites, virtual private network apps, and other cryptographic software to adopt the Diffie-Hellman cryptographic...
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How Soviets sed IBM Selectric Keyloggers to Spy on S Diplomats
A National Security Agency memo that recently resurfaced a few years after it was first published contains a detailed analysis of what very possibly was the world's...
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Europe's Highest Court Strikes Down Safe Harbor Data Sharing Between Eu, US
Europe's top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), has struck down the 15-year-old Safe Harbour agreement that allowed the free flow of information...
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How the Nfl—not the Nsa—is Impacting Data Gathering Well Beyond the Gridiron
As guards were going so far as to check inside NFL fans' wallets as part of routine security measures before a recent preseason game at Levi's Stadium, a different...
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Reflective Satellites May Be the Future of High-End Encryption
Quantum key distribution is regularly touted as the encryption of the future. While the keys are exchanged on an insecure channel, the laws of physics provide a...
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