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The Smart Ui Design Behind Apple’s Frictionless 3D Touch
Midway through Apple's demonstration of the new iPhone 6S, Craig Federighi took an emergency selfie.
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Facebook's New Spam-Killer Hints at the Future of Coding
Louis Brandy pauses before answering, needing some extra time to choose his words.
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Court Says the Ftc Can Slap Companies For Getting Hacked
For companies like the dating site Ashley Madison or the health insurer Anthem, financial loss, customer anger and professional embarrassment aren't the only consequences...
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Something Deep Inside Pluto Is Replenishing Its Atmosphere
Pluto has a problem: Its thin, nitrogen atmosphere shouldn't be there.
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Crackdowns Haven't Stopped the Dark Web's $100 Yearly Drug Sales
After more than four years and two giant law enforcement busts, the Dark Web's drug market is still just as robust as it was during the Silk Road's heyday.
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Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone
The most sensitive work environments, like nuclear power plants, demand the strictest security.
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What We're Really Looking At When We Look at Pluto
The images of Pluto that the New Horizons probe beamed across 3 billion miles of hard vacuum are, in a word, breathtaking.
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After Jeep Hack, Chrysler Recalls 1.4m Vehicles For Bug Fix
Welcome to the age of hackable automobiles, when two security researchers can cause a 1.4 million product recall.
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Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—with Me in It
I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold.
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Manhattan Da: Iphone Crypto Locked Out Cops 74 Time
The debate over encryption and backdoors for law enforcement has long had a surplus of opinions and a deficit of data.
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Leap Motion's Augmented-Reality Computing Looks Stupid Cool
We have a habit of filling new technologies with old ideas.
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Mit’s Bitcoin-Inspired 'enigma' Lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data
The cryptography behind bitcoin solved a paradoxical problem: a currency with no regulator, that nonetheless can't be counterfeited.
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Watch: Black Hole Sim Whips Dark Matter Into a Frenzy
Dark matter is to astrophysicists what sex is to kids in junior high school: Everybody is really interested, but nobody really knows what it looks like.
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Ai's Next Frontier: Machines That nderstand Language
With the help of neural networks—vast networks of machines that mimic the web of neurons in the human brain—Facebook can recognize your face.
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Facebook's New AI Can Paint, But Google's Knows How to Party
Facebook and Google are building enormous neural networks—artificial brains—that can instantly recognize faces, cars, buildings, and other objects in digital photos...
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Revealed: The Secret Gear Connecting Google's Online Empire
Three-and-a-half years ago, a strange computing device appeared at an office building in the tiny farmland town of Shelby, Iowa.
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Beautiful, Intriguing, and Illegal Ways to Map the Internet
When you hear the word "Internet," what do you picture in your mind?
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'deep Learning' Will Soon Give S Super-Smart Robots
Yann LeCun is among those bringing a new level of artificial intelligence to popular internet services from the likes of Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.
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Finally, Neural Networks That Actually Work
Jeff Dean, who helped create the fundamental computing systems that underpin Google's vast online empire, has returned to the world of neural networks.
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