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se of Personalized Cancer Drugs Runs Ahead of the Science
As the costs of genetic sequencing fall, oncologists are starting to prescribe expensive new drugs that target the genetic profiles of their patients' tumours,...
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Federal Researchers Want to ntangle Internet of Things
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has released its Draft Framework for Cyber-Physical Systems.
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Vw Could Fool the Epa, But It Couldn't Trick Chemistry
For decades, automakers have been caught between building an engine that squeezes a lot of energy out of the fuel it burns and one that has low emissions.
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A Tricky Path to Quantum-Safe Encryption
August 11, the National Security Agency updated an obscure page on its website with an announcement that it plans to shift the encryption of government and military...
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France Is Now Censoring Your Google Search Results, Wherever You Are
The French now have the "right to be forgotten" worldwide.
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The Fuzzy Logic of Fleeing For Your Life
A special session at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence Transportation Systems dealt with intelligent pedestrian traffic and evacuation dynamics.
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.s. and China Seek Arms Deal For Cyberspace
The United States and China are negotiating what could become the first arms control accord for cyberspace, embracing a commitment by each country that it will...
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The Dismal State of America's Decade-Old Voting Machines
Almost all U.S. states are using technologically outdated touchscreen and optical-scan voting systems that are at least 10 years old, according to a report.
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China Tries to Extract Pledge of Compliance From .s. Tech Firms
The Chinese government, which has long used its country's vast market as leverage over American technology companies, is now asking some of those firms to directly...
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The People Hoping to Continue to Exist Through Technology
"We have this strange idea that dying is something we need to do."
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Cyberthreat Posed By China and Iran Confounds White House
A question from a member of the Pentagon’s new cyberwarfare unit the other day prompted President Obama to voice his frustration about America's seeming inability...
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With 'brandeis' Project, DARPA Seeks to Advance Privacy Technology
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's new "Brandeis" program seeks to shield individual privacy instead of infringing on it.
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Can Software Suffer? Death and Pain in Digital Brains
The ability to digitally simulate physical systems such as the brain to avoid the ethical dilemmas of experimentation on living subjects creates new dilemmas.
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The False Science of Cryonics
I woke up on Saturday to a heartbreaking front-page article in the New York Times about a terminally ill young woman who chooses to freeze her brain.
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The Oil-Rich City Betting on Drones
Over the PA system a voice tells us not to be alarmed. What we are about to see is just a demonstration, courtesy of the United Arab Emirates' Ministry of the Interior...
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Get Ready to Live in a Trillion-Device World
University of California, Berkeley professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli predicts the world will be completely suffused with tiny sensors within 10 years.
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Apple and Other Tech Companies Tangle With U.s. Over Data Access
In an investigation involving guns and drugs, the Justice Department obtained a court order this summer demanding that Apple turn over, in real time, text messages...
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How International Monitors Spot Nukes and Other Rumblings
The ultimate nightmare for critics of the Iran nuclear deal being debated in Congress is that somehow, despite the agreement and all its built-in safeguards, Iran...
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