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Talking Machines: Who Won This Year's Alexa Prize?
A team of students from Emory University has won this year's $500,000 Alexa Prize from Amazon for advancing conversational artificial intelligence by designing...
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The New Intel: How Nvidia Went From Powering Video Games To Revolutionizing Artificial Intelligence
Nvidia cofounder Chris Malachowsky is eating a sausage omelet and sipping burnt coffee in a Denny's off the Berryessa overpass in San Jose.
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Feds Want to se Your Fingerprints to Open Iphones. Why Isn't It Working?
A single sentence was all that was needed to detail the results of a search warrant executed last month on a cell phone in Texas: "Unable to obtain forensic aquisition...
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No Internet? No Problem. Inside Cuba's Tech Revolution
Robin Pedraja, a lanky 28-year-old former design student from Havana, walked into the Cuban government’s office of periodicals and publications early last year...
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The Rags-To-Riches Tale of How Jan Koum Built Whatsapp Into Facebook's New $19 Billion Baby
Jan Koum picked a meaningful spot to sign the $19 billion deal to sell his company WhatsApp to Facebook earlier today. Koum, cofounder Brian Acton and venture capitalist...
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This Iphone-Size Device Can Hack A Car, Researchers Plan To Demonstrate
Auto makers have long downplayed the threat of hacker attacks on their cars and trucks, arguing that their vehicles' increasingly networked systems are protected...
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Life After Siri: Nuance's phill Climb To Being Your Digital Assistant
In the gleaming Silicon Valley branch office of speech-recognition firm Nuance Communications, a small room has been made to look like a homey den.
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Your Body Is the Computer
The last few years have presented an unprecedented shift in the computing world as PCs are being replaced with mobile devices. But now that a large portion of the...
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Microsoft Gives ser Data to the .s. Government Less Often Than Google, But to Foreign Governments Far More
Microsoft has finally joined Google and a small group of Internet firms that voluntarily reveal how often governments demand they hand over their users’ private...
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Here's What Law Enforcement Can Recover From a Seized Iphone
You may think of your iPhone as a friendly personal assistant. But once it’s alone in a room full of law enforcement officials, you might be surprised at the revealing...
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Google Offers $3.14159 Million in Total Rewards For Chrome Os Hacking Contest
Google has never been stingy when it comes to paying for information about security vulnerabilities in products.
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How I Accidentally Helped Compromise the Secret Keys of High-Security Handcuffs
In the age of freely available modeling software, laser cutters and 3D printers, shapes that must stay secret for security's sake don't stay secret for long. Especially...
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More Mobile News Consumers Choosing Web Over Apps
Mobile apps were supposed to be the reset button for the news industry.
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U.s. Law Enforcement Is Tracking Who Calls, Texts, and Emails Whom More Often Than Ever Before
Law enforcement isn't just interested in what Americans are saying on the phone or on the Internet.
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Hacker Opens High Security Handcuffs with 3D-Printed and Laser-Cut Keys
The security of high-end handcuffs depends on a detainee not having access to certain small, precisely-shaped objects. In the age of easy 3D printing and other...
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