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'A Damn Stupid Thing to Do'—the Origins of C
Today, C may be a lingua franca among programmers. This is its (abridged) history.
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Facebook Hit With Antitrust Lawsuits by FTC, State Attorneys General
Claims target social-media giant's past acquisitions, tactics against competitors.
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Critical Flaws in Millions of IoT Devices May Never Get Fixed
Internet of Things security firm Forescout uncovered 33 flaws in seven open source TCP/IP stacks that potentially leave millions of IoT devices vulnerable.
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In Battle Against Hackers, Companies Try to Deceive the Deceivers
Companies are attempting to trap hackers by enticing them with deception technology.
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Stanford Researchers Study Trust in Autonomous Products
Stanford University engineers investigating how altering peoples' moods affect their trust in a smart speaker were surprised by their results.
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Silicon Valley's Next Goal Is 3D Maps of the World--Made by Us
Ordinary online users are being conscripted by Silicon Valley technology companies to produce three-dimensional digital maps of the world.
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Coronavirus Apps Show Promise but Prove a Tough Sell
Despite pilot studies demonstrating that smartphone applications can slow Covid-19 transmission, buy-in from people and states is lacking.
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Spies with Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service Believed to have Hacked a top American Cybersecurity Firm, Stolen its Sensitive Tools
"We are witnessing an attack by a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities," FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia said in a blog post.
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MIT ML Models Find Gaps in Coverage by Moderna, Pfizer, Other Warp Speed Covid-19 Vaccines
Covid-19 vaccines from Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and others in Phase III clinical trials may not be as effective in people of Black or Asian genetic ancestry...
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Police in Mississippi Want Access to Live Home Security Video, Alarming Privacy Advocates
Officials in Jackson, MS, are expanding police surveillance by permitting live feeds from private security cameras to be sent to the city's real-time command center...
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App Aims to Reduce Deaths From Opioid Overdose
A Philadelphia-based pilot study tested an application for volunteers, which alerts them to opioid overdoses requiring naloxone.
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Google's AI Can Keep Loon Balloons Flying for Over 300 Days in a Row
An artificially intelligent pilot can keep huge stratospheric balloons aloft in a fixed position for hundreds of days to operate as floating cell towers for remote...
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Computer Science Professor, Postdoc Launch Online Database on History of Slavery
"Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade," a database collecting archives and entries documenting the lives of those who were enslaved, owned slaves, or...
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Global Losses from Cybercrime Skyrocketed to Nearly $1 trillion in 2020, Report Finds
IP theft and financial crime account for at least 75% of cyber losses and pose the greatest threat to companies, according to the report.
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Not to Be Sneezed At: How 3D Printing Is Supersizing the Tiny World of Pollen
Oliver Wilson at the U.K.'s University of Reading has created a platform for three-dimensionally printing oversized models of pollen grains from high-quality scans...
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Study Outlines What Creates Racial Bias in Facial Recognition Technology
A study has identified the underlying factors that engender racial bias in facial recognition technology.
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New RISC-V CPU Claims Recordbreaking Performance per Watt
Micro Magic's new CPU offers decent performance with record-breaking efficiency.
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JavaScript at 25: The Programming Language that Makes the World Go Round
JavaScript is now the world's most popular programming language, even though it started off as a sidekick to Java.
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