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Lawmakers Worry about Rise of Fake Video Technology
Lawmakers are concerned that advances in video manipulation technology could set off a new era of fake news. Now legislators say they want to start working on fixes...
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$1.2-million I Project Looks Into Why Women Enter STEM Careers
Indiana University is launching a $1.2-million project examining why women make up such a relatively small percentage of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics...
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2 Years After FBI vs. Apple, Encryption Debate Remains
It's been two years since the FBI and Apple got into a giant fight over encryption following the San Bernardino shooting, when the government had the shooter's...
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A Phone that Says 'No' to Little Kid Fingers
A new algorithm can identify who is swiping a smartphone screen, which could lead to child-proof devices.
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niversities Rush to Roll Out Computer Science Ethics Courses
U.S. universities are starting to offer ethics courses relating to computer science.
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Technological Breakthrough for Monitoring and Predicting Landslides
AccuMM is a new automated solution for the long-term monitoring of landslides.
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Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook, and the World
One day in late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook's employees to address some troubling behavior in the ranks.
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As China Marches Forward on A.I., the White House Is Silent
In July, China unveiled a plan to become the world leader in artificial intelligence and create an industry worth $150 billion to its economy by 2030.
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The Olympics' Never-Ending Struggle to Keep Track of Time
At precisely three minutes and thirty seconds before two o'clock on the afternoon of Friday, April 10, 1896, on a bridge in the Greek town of Marathon, an army...
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Blockchain Explained: It Builds Trust When You Need It Most
These days, we're having a harder and harder time trusting each other.
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N Calls for Smashing Stereotypes
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has cited the need to support and invest in women and girls who want to pursue careers in scientific research....
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Early Facebook, Google Employees Form Coalition to Fight What They Built
The cohort is creating a union of concerned experts called the Center for Humane Technology.
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China: Police sing Facial-Recognition Sunglasses
The Chinese government is equipping its police with real-time facial-recognition sunglasses to instantly locate criminals in crowds.
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Winter Olympics’ Security on Alert, but Hackers Have a Head Start
More than 300 Olympics-related computer systems have already been hit, with many of them compromised.
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Mind the Gap: This Researcher Steals Data With Noise, Light, and Magnets
The field of cybersecurity is obsessed with preventing and detecting breaches, finding every possible strategy to keep hackers from infiltrating your digital inner...
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Inside North Korea's Hacker Army
In most respects, Jong Hyok looks like any other middle-aged male tech worker you might see on the skyscraper-shadowed streets of Seoul's Gangnam district: smartphone...
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Neural Networks Allow S to 'Read Faces' in a New Way
Stanford University professor Michal Kosinski is using deep neural networks to illustrate the use of facial-recognition technology for invasive monitoring
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Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries Into Fake Accounts
More than a million followers have disappeared from the accounts of dozens of prominent Twitter users in recent days as the company faces growing criticism over...
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Researchers at Cornell Release Paper on Cryptocurrencies
A new report challenges the idea that the world's two most popular cryptocurrencies provide decentralized financial systems.
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