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N.s.a. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers
The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those...
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The Next Data Privacy Battle May Be Waged Inside Your Car
Cars are becoming smarter than ever, with global positioning systems, Internet connections, data recorders and high-definition cameras.
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A Makeover For Maps
Graphic designers are experimenting with new ways of presenting data, to better display the information people download over a range of devices.
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When Doctors 'google' Their Patients
I remember when I first looked up a patient on Google.
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Viewing Where the Internet Goes
Will 2014 be the year that the Internet is reined in?
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Reading Your Palm For Security's Sake
They aren't taking any chances at Barclays Bank in Britain.
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Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience
Computers have entered the age when they are able to learn from their own mistakes, a development that is about to turn the digital world on its head.
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Japanese Team Dominates Competition to Create Generation of Rescue Robots
The Schaft robot developed by Japanese researchers dominated the U.S. Pentagon's Defense Advance Research Projects Agency's Robotics Challenge 2013 Trials.
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Japanese Team Dominates Competition to Create Rescue Robots
An international competition to pave the way for a new generation of rescue robots was dominated by a team of Japanese roboticists who were students in the laboratory...
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Officials Say .s. May Never Know Extent of Snowden's Leaks
American intelligence and law enforcement investigators have concluded that they may never know the entirety of what the former National Security Agency contractor...
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Google Puts Money on Robots, sing the Man Behind Android
In an out-of-the-way Google office, two life-size humanoid robots hang suspended in a corner.
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When Algorithms Grow Accustomed to Your Face
Computer software currently exists that can read subtle, millisecond-long facial cues of a person's emotions via frame-by-frame video analysis.
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Ibm to Announce More Powerful Watson via the Internet
Welcome to the age of supercomputing for everyone.
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Big Data's Little Brother
David Soloff is recruiting an army of "hyperdata" collectors.
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Nest's Tony Fadell on Smart Objects, and the Singularity of Innovation
Tony Fadell is the founder and chief executive of Nest, a company that is trying to bring a high-end technology experience to some of the most prosaic areas of...
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As Interest Fades in the Humanities, Colleges Worry
On Stanford University’s sprawling campus, where a long palm-lined drive leads to manicured quads, humanities professors produce highly regarded scholarship on...
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Making Robots More Like S
On a recent morning Natanel Dukan walked into the Paris offices of the French robot maker Aldebaran and noticed one of the company's humanoid NAO robots sitting...
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Of Fact, Fiction and Defibrillators
In a chilling episode of "Homeland" last year, a terrorist killed the vice president with a fiendishly clever weapon: a remote-control device that attacked the...
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