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It Takes Just $1,000 to Track Someone's Location with Mobile Ads
When you consider the nagging privacy risks of online advertising, you may find comfort in the thought of a vast, abstract company like Pepsi or Nike viewing you...
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Justices to Decide on Forcing Technology Firms to Provide Data Held Abroad
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether federal prosecutors can force technology companies to turn over data stored outside the United States.
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Twitter Is Crawling With Bots and Lacks Incentive to Expel Them
On Wednesday, the exterior of Twitter's San Francisco headquarters bore an eerie message: "Ban Russian Bots." Someone—the company doesn't know who—projected the...
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Google, Facebook and Twitter scramble to Hold Washington at Bay
Google summoned about 200 policy staff from around the world last month for a debate on whether the company's size has made it too attractive as a target for government...
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Russians Took a Page from Corporate America By sing Facebook Tool to Id and Influence Voters
Russian operatives set up an array of misleading Web sites and social media pages to identify American voters susceptible to propaganda, then used a powerful Facebook...
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wm-Developed App Helps Protect Patients' Brains During Surgery
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) say they have developed NeuroMapper, a tablet-based application that helps doctors make better decisions...
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Russian Facebook Ads Showed a Black Woman Firing a Rifle, Amid Efforts to Stoke Racial Strife
One of the Russian-bought advertisements that Facebook shared with congressional investigators on Monday featured photographs of an armed black woman "dry firing"...
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As Scrutiny Of Social Networks Grows, Influence Attacks Continue In Real Time
The presidential election is long past, but online attacks aimed at shaping the U.S. information environment have kept right on coming.
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Facebook's New 'ai Camera' Team Wants to Add a Layer to the World
Take a video of a birthday cake's candles sparkling in an Instagram story, then tap the sticker button. Near the top of the list you'll see a slice of birthday...
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3D-Printing Human Body Parts
Bioprinting has generated bones, cartilage, and some muscles; hearts and livers are still years away.
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Digital Hearing
Advances in audio processing help separate the conversation from background noise.
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Portable Device Fears Show Power of Social Development
How do small screens impact young minds?
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Facial Recognition Is Only the Beginning
Apple says the inclusion of its Face ID technology in the upcoming iPhone X will make smartphone unlocking, payment, and other operations possible via facial recognition...
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How the Internet Kept Humming During 2 Hurricanes
At one node of the industrial backbone that keeps the internet running, employees sheltered from the worst of Hurricane Irma in a stairwell of a seven-story building...
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Chips Off the Old block: Computers Are Taking Design Cues from Human Brains
We expect a lot from our computers these days. They should talk to us, recognize everything from faces to flowers, and maybe soon do the driving.
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Conservatives, Liberals nite Against Silicon Valley
The days of unqualified praise from Washington are over for the country's biggest tech companies, whose size and power are increasingly drawing attacks from both...
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Brain-Machine Interface Isn't Sci-Fi Anymore
Thomas Reardon puts a terrycloth stretch band with microchips and electrodes woven into the fabric—a steampunk version of jewelry—on each of his forearms. ...
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How Apple Is Bringing US Into the Age of Facial Recognition Whether We're Ready or Not
A whiff of dystopian creepiness has long wafted in the air whenever facial recognition has come up. Books, movies and television shows have portrayed the technology...
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The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election
Sometimes an international offensive begins with a few shots that draw little notice.
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