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Artificial Intelligence Swarms Silicon Valley on Wings and Wheels
Artificial intelligence and robotics are leading a transformation in Silicon Valley expected to be as significant as the personal computing and commercial Internet...
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Makers of Self-Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature
The push by some automakers to make fully autonomous vehicles a commercial reality is being tempered by others arguing against elimination of human driver intervention...
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Makers of Self-Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature
Even before Tesla revealed that a fatal accident had occurred while one of its cars was in semiautonomous driving mode, a debate was well underway between researchers...
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The Fully Self-Driving Car Is Still Years Away
The arrival of fully autonomous automobiles is complicated by the debate over how much self-supervision should be allowed.
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Should Your Driverless Car Hit a Pedestrian to Save Your Life?
Most people believe self-driving vehicles should ultimately put their passengers' lives first, according to a new study.
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Goodbye, Password. Banks Opt to Scan Fingers and Faces Instead.
The banking password may be about to expire—forever.
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Fighting Isis With an Algorithm, Physicists Try to Predict Attacks
After Orlando and San Bernardino and Paris, there is new urgency to understand the signs that can precede acts of terrorism.
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Court Backs Rules Treating Internet as Utility, Not Luxury
High-speed internet service can be defined as a utility, a federal court has ruled in a sweeping decision clearing the way for more rigorous policing of broadband...
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A Russian Cybersleuth Battles the 'dark Ages' of the Internet
A sense of menace stirs right off the elevator on the fifth floor of Kaspersky Lab's Moscow headquarters, where a small television screen displays cyberthreatsa...
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For Driverless Cars, City-Like Test Sites Offer the npredictable
Automakers are turning to city-like test sites as they race to create the perfect self-driving car.
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5 Things That Give Self-Driving Cars Headaches
Fully automated cars don’t drink and drive, fall asleep at the wheel, text, talk on the phone or put on makeup while driving.
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Smaller Chips May Depend on Vacuum Tube Technology
Vacuum tubes may enjoy a resurgence as computer chips continue to shrink.
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A Mission to Bring STEM Skills, and Robots, to Children in West Africa
Sidy Ndao aims to advance science, technology, engineering, and math skills in West Africa by organizing events such as the Pan-African Robotics Competition.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Far From Matching Humans, Panel Says
Never mind Terminator-like killer robots. Artificial intelligence researchers are grappling with more realistic questions like whether their creations will take...
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Want to Buy a Self-Driving Car? Big-Rig Trucks May Come First
Imagine you are driving on a highway late at night when a big-rig truck closes in behind you.
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When Websites Won't Take No for an Answer
Harry Brignull, a user-experience consultant in Britain who helps websites and apps develop consumer-friendly features, has a professional bone to pick with sites...
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Pentagon Turns to Silicon Valley For Edge in Artificial Intelligence
In its quest to maintain a United States military advantage, the Pentagon is aggressively turning to Silicon Valley’s hottest technology—artificial intelligence...
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Police and Tech Giants Wrangle Over Encryption on Capitol Hill
Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the district attorney of Manhattan, visited Washington late last month to argue his case on a pressing issue: encryption.
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Moore's Law Running Out of Room, Tech Looks For a Successor
For decades, the computer industry has been guided by a faith that engineers would always find a way to make the components on computer chips smaller, faster and...
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