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Paris Attacks Fan Encryption Debate
White House and congressional staffers have asked Silicon Valley executives for new talks in Washington, D.C., to resolve a standoff over encrypted communication...
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New Report Puts Numbers on Data Scientist Trend
Data scientist–a job that barely existed a decade ago–has become one of the hottest and best-paid professions in the U.S.
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U.s. Tech Firms Look To Data Centers on European Soil
Silicon Valley companies say they’ve been preparing for yesterday's European Court of Justice decision invalidating the U.S.-Europe Safe Harbor agreement on data...
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Scientists Tap Dragonfly Vision to Build a Better Bionic Eye
What can humans learn from dragonflies?
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Pursuing Electronics That Bend, Pentagon Advances Partnership With Tech Firms
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has announced a Pentagon project to develop flexible electronic devices with Silicon Valley companies and scientists.
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Before a Robot Takes Your Job, You'll Be Working Side By Side
That's the takeaway from a new report by Forrester Research, Inc.
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Silicon Valley Icon Wants to Hack His Way to the Presidency
Silicon Valley icon Lawrence Lessig knows his moonshot bid for the White House hinges on the innovation and support of the tech industry.
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How Social Bias Creeps Into Web Technology
Predictive and decision-making Web technologies are susceptible to the unconscious social biases of their designers and programmers, to a degree that can reflect...
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Apple and Google Know What You Want Before You Do
Apple Inc. and Google Inc. are racing to anticipate the needs of their users.
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Scientists in Greece Design Cryptographic E-Voting Platform
Researchers in Greece say they have designed the world's first encrypted electronic voting system in which voters can confirm their votes go to the intended candidate...
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China Pushes to Rewrite Rules of Global Internet
China's government aims to redraft the rules of the global Internet so it can regulate the Internet on its own terms.
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Physicists Restart Souped-p Hadron Collider
After a two-year shutdown, the atom-smashing machine known as the Large Hadron Collider has embarked on a renewed quest to probe some of the biggest puzzles about...
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Defensive Stats Shift Back Toward Irrelevance
Baseball's statisticians have long been looking for a way—any way—to figure out what a player is worth on defense. It was nothing less than the holy grail of baseball...
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Data Miners Dig For Answers About Harper Lee, Truman Capote, and 'go Set a Watchman'
Literature researchers used data science to investigate long-standing debates about the work of Harper Lee, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Go Set a Watchman...
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Moore's Law Is Showing Its Age
No company sounds more religious about Moore’s Law than Intel Corp., whose co-founder made a famous observation about the miniaturization of chip circuitry 50 years...
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Moxie Marlinspike: The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts
Dreadlocked programmer has spooked the FBI by creating a tool that police cannot crack.
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Automakers Tackle the Massive Security Challenges of Connected Vehicles
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is accelerating its efforts to mandate vehicle-to-vehicle communications, a step that could help lower the number...
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Girls Who Code From Around Globe
Iridescent's Technovation World Pitch Challenge is an opportunity for pre-college girls with an interest in technology entrepreneurship to win $20,000 in seed funding...
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When Does a Hack Become an Act of War?
A tremendous number of personnel records—including some quite personal records—have likely been stolen by computer hackers.
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