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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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pcoming Tor Design Battles Hidden Services Snooping
Tor project representatives say malicious Tor Hidden Services Directories will be addressed in an upcoming redesign, and are only an "annoyance" in the meantime...
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Radio Hack Steals Keystrokes from Millions of Wireless Keyboards
You should be able to trust your wireless keyboard.
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Americans Are Wary About Body-Enhancement Technologies
Emerging technologies that draw from biomedical technology, nanotechnology, information technology and other fields are developing at a rapid pace and may lead...
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Feds Want to se Your Fingerprints to Open Iphones. Why Isn't It Working?
A single sentence was all that was needed to detail the results of a search warrant executed last month on a cell phone in Texas: "Unable to obtain forensic aquisition...
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Open Source Software No Longer Optional
Open development and sharing of software gained widespread acceptance 15 years ago, and the practice is accelerating.
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Microsoft's President Explains the Company's Quiet Legal War For ser Privacy
Apple's legal battle over encryption dominated headlines earlier this year, but another tech giant is fighting a quieter legal war over user privacy: Microsoft....
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Snowden Designs a Device to Warn If Your Iphone's Radios Are Snitching
When Edward Snowden met with reporters in a Hong Kong hotel room to spill the NSA's secrets, he famously asked them put their phones in the fridge to block any...
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Eu Data Protection Law May End the nknowable Algorithm
A new law to be enacted European Union-wide in 2018 could require companies to clarify their decision-making algorithms to avoid unlawful discrimination.
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To Catch a Wireless Thief
Crowdsourcing programs one day could help authorities track down unauthorized radio bandwidth and malicious radio disruptions.
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Learning to Trust a Self-Driving Car
On a clear morning in early May, Brian Lathrop, a senior engineer for Volkswagen's Electronics Research Laboratory, was in the driver's seat of a Tesla Model S...
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.s. Pumps $400 Million Into Next-Generation Wireless Research
The U.S. National Science Foundation will invest more than $400 million over the next seven years to fund next-generation wireless research.
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Nyu Researchers Report Cybersecurity Risks in 3D Printing
Additive manufacturing, also known as three-dimensional printing, faces some of the same cybersecurity risks as the electronics industry.
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This Guy Trains Computers to Find Future Criminals
When historians look back at the turmoil over prejudice and policing in the U.S. over the past few years, they're unlikely to dwell on the case of Eric Loomis.
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Europe Is Going After Google Hard, and Google May Not Win
Microsoft pulled the strings. At least, that’s what Google and so many business and tech journalists said when the search giant first faced antitrust complaints...
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In Wake of Shootings, Facebook Struggles to Define Hate Speech
In the wake of last week's shootings, Facebook has seen a significant spike in flagged content, with users calling out each other's posts as racist, violent and...
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Clever Tool Shields Your Car From Hacks By Watching Its Internal Clocks
Car-hacking demonstrations tend to get all the glory in the security research community—remotely paralyzing a Jeep on the highway or cutting a Corvette’s brakes...
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How to Stay Anonymous Online
New technology for protecting anonymity online provides stronger security guarantees but uses bandwidth much more efficiently than previous anonymity networks.
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How to Keep More Girls in It at Schools If We're to Close the Gender Gap
The gender gap in the information technology industry is underscored by a lack of engagement of girls in computing and IT education.
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Extortion Extinction: Researchers Develop a Way to Stop Ransomware
University of Florida researchers have developed a system they say can thwart ransomware.
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