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Why Passenger Planes Can Still Vanish
By Dec. 30, when search teams began to recover debris and bodies from the apparent crash site of AirAsia flight QZ8501, the airline industry had begun to hear renewed...
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Speech Recognition Better Than a Human's Exists. You Just Can't se It Yet
Researchers say recent breakthroughs in speech recognition and artificial intelligence will soon make gadgets dramatically better at understanding people.
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The Big Business of Selling Prescription-Drug Records
Since the days of 19th century remedies such as castor oil laxatives and mercury syphilis tablets, pharmacists and patients have had a tacit understanding: Whatever...
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Hadoop Wins Converts Outside Silicon Valley
Two years ago, when the Detroit Crime Commission began collecting and analyzing the social media posts of suspected criminals, it found Excel wasn’t up to the task...
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The Weather Channel's Secret: Less Weather, More Clickbait
The writers and editors at the Weather Channel's weather.com don’t often talk about the weather.
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Facebook, Intel Back Effort to Lift Engineer Diversity
Rectifying a lack of diversity among computer science undergraduates is the goal of the BRAID program, to which Facebook, Intel, Google, Microsoft, and others will...
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A Newspaper's First Trip Into Virtual Reality Goes to a Desolate Farm
Against the odds, the Des Moines Register has just become one of the first newspapers to move into virtual reality.
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Tim Cook Interview: The Iphone 6, the Apple Watch, and Remaking a Company's Culture
Steve Jobs’s office remains Steve Jobs's office.
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How Main Street Will Pay For Home Depot's Data Breach
Federal law protects consumers from the cost of fraudulent charges incurred when thieves steal credit-card and debit-card numbers.
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Korea ps Its Robots Game
In 1976 an animated film called Robot Taekwon V captured Korean kids' imaginations with its tale of a superhero robot fending off giant machines bent on world domination...
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As Software and Hardware Advance Together, the Next Innovation Wave Rises
As processors and sensors have become smaller and found their way into everything from cars to traffic lights to smoke detectors, software developers have kept...
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The Amazon.com of Stolen Credit Cards Makes It All So Easy
On Sept. 1, the website Rescator.cc alerted customers to a big new batch of product about to hit its digital shelves. "Load your accounts and prepare for an avalanche...
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The Cookies You Can't Crumble
If you've used the Internet for longer than the iPhone has been around, you're probably familiar with cookies, those little packets of personal data that help load...
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Arrogance Is Good: In Defense of Silicon Valley
Sam Altman sits behind his desk with his knees pulled up to his chest, eating dried apricots.
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Ibm, At&t Build Technology to Move Data Fast in Disaster
Prototype technology can quickly move large amounts of critical data and software to another location in the event of a natural disaster or terrorist attack.
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For Tv 'white Spaces,' the Global Outlook Is Hopeful but Cautious
Developed and developing markets' spectrum policies are starting to accommodate TV white spaces.
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As China Stalks Satellites, .S. and Japan Prepare to Defend Them
In May 2013 the Chinese government conducted what it called a science space mission from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China.
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How Russian Hackers Stole the Nasdaq
In October 2010, a Federal Bureau of Investigation system monitoring U.S. Internet traffic picked up an alert.
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