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Pilot se of Automation Eyed in Air Crashes
Pilots are becoming so reliant on the computer systems that do most of the flying in today's airliners that on the rare occasions when something goes wrong, they're...
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Biometrics Researchers See World Without Passwords
Emerging biometric technologies could replace the use of passwords.
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Google's 'hummingbird' Hatches New Search Formula
The formula underlying Google's search engine has been overhauled as part of its Hummingbird update, to yield better answers to increasingly complex queries.
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Ambivalence on Civil Liberties, Terrorism
When it comes to the balance between civil liberties and the war on terrorism, Americans seem to want the best of both worlds.
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Experts See Potential Perils in Brazil Push to Break With U.s.-Centric Internet Over Nsa Spying
Brazil is planning to remove itself from the U.S.-centric Internet in the aftermath of the U.S. National Security Agency's online spying program.
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Terrorists Turn to Online Chat Rooms to Evade U.s.
Al-Qaida fighters have been using secretive chat rooms and encrypted Internet message boards for planning and coordinating attacks, including the threatened if...
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Fledgling 3D Printing Industry Finds Home in Nyc
It looks like a bakery. A warm glow emanates from the windows of big, oven-like machines, and a dusting of white powder covers everything.
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Researchers Aim to Create Virtual Speech Therapist
Researchers working to develop a virtual speech therapist, technology that could help people overcome the language disorder known as aphasia.
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Nsa Revelations Reframe Digital Life For Some
In Louisiana, the wife of a former soldier is scaling back on Facebook posts and considering unfriending old acquaintances, worried an innocuous joke or long-lost...
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In Worldwide Surveillance Age, U.s. Has Big Edge
The saga of Edward Snowden and the NSA makes one thing clear: The United States' central role in developing the Internet and hosting its most powerful players has...
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Move Over Messi, Here Come the Robots
More than 1,000 soccer-playing robots from 40 countries are competing against each other in the RoboCup soccer tournament.
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Coding Camps For Kids Rise in Popularity
Coding camps for children are becoming increasingly popular amid an expanding initiative to inspire more youths to seek computer science degrees.
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Secret to Prism Program: Even Bigger Data Seizure
In the months and early years after 9/11, FBI agents began showing up at Microsoft Corp. more frequently than before, armed with court orders demanding information...
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1st Web Page Proves as Elusive as Mysteries of the Universe
Scientists may never make a clear-cut discovery of the first Web page ever created because of the nature of how data is stored.
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ssr's Old Domain Name Attracts Cybercriminals
The Soviet Union disappeared from the map more than two decades ago. But online an 'e-vil empire' is thriving.
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Kissing Cousins? In Close-Knit Iceland, App Helps Prevent Incest
An app making the Islendingabok (Book of Icelanders) available to Android phones notifies Icelanders when people they meet are too closely related to date.
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British Library Sets Out to Archive the Web
The British Library is archiving every British website and e-book for future researchers.
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Robot Hot Among Surgeons But Fda Taking Fresh Look
The biggest thing in operating rooms these days is a million-dollar, multi-armed robot named da Vinci, used in nearly 400,000 surgeries nationwide last year—triple...
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Race to Build Driverless Cars Is in Full Throttle
Researchers claim they are just five years away from having all of the tools and the knowledge needed to market a fully autonomous vehicle.
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