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Nsa Can Legally Access Metadata of 25,000 Callers Based on a Single Suspect's Phone
Despite changes to the law, the U.S. National Security Agency can still request metadata from tens of thousands of private phones if they are indirectly connected...
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Scientists Hold Secret Meeting to Consider Creating a Synthetic Human Genome
Scientists are now contemplating the creation of a synthetic human genome, meaning they would use chemicals to manufacture all the DNA contained in human chromosomes...
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Second Cycle of Martian Seasons Completing For Curiosity Rover
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover completed its second Martian year since landing inside Gale Crater nearly four Earth years ago, which means it has recorded environmental...
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'cardboardizer' Allows sers to Create Robotic Models in Minutes
The CardBoardiZer system developed at Purdue University allows even beginning designers to transform static three-dimensional objects into moving robotic versions...
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Genome Reveals Why Giraffes Have Long Necks
Call it a tall task: researchers have decoded the genomes of the giraffe and its closest relative, the okapi.
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When Websites Won't Take No for an Answer
Harry Brignull, a user-experience consultant in Britain who helps websites and apps develop consumer-friendly features, has a professional bone to pick with sites...
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A Few Controversial Numbers May Be Illegal to Share
Jon Johansen's program worked. The Norwegian teenager watched as it downloaded 200 megabytes of a recently released movie, The Matrix, from a DVD onto his computer...
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Cybersecurity Sleuths Learn to Think Like Hackers
About 35 high-school students sit at neatly arranged rows of tables in the university's gym. Another 115 college-level contestants surround the high schoolers.
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Moore's Law Is Dead. Now What?
The looming obsolescence of Moore's Law is forcing scientists to look for other ways to improve computer performance and innovation.
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How to Hack the Hackers: The Human Side of Cyber Crime
Say what you will about cybercriminals, says Angela Sasse, "their victims rave about the customer service".
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How Typography Can Save Your Life
After decades of silently shouting at the top of its lungs, the National Weather Service recently announced that it's going to stop publishing its forecasts and...
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Pentagon Turns to Silicon Valley For Edge in Artificial Intelligence
In its quest to maintain a United States military advantage, the Pentagon is aggressively turning to Silicon Valley’s hottest technology—artificial intelligence...
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The Internet of Drones Is Coming
A significant barrier to commercial use of drones remains drone traffic density, and Robert J. Hall at AT&T Labs believes the answer lies in an "Internet of drones...
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2007 OR10: Largest Unnamed World in the Solar System
Dwarf planets tend to be a mysterious bunch. With the exception of Ceres, which resides in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, all members of this...
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Ibm's Watson Has a New Project: Fighting Cybercrime
IBM's Watson supercomputer hardly needs any more resumé-padding. It’s already wonJeopardy, written a cookbook, and dabbled in revolutionizing healthcare.
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This Turing Machine Should Run Forever nless Maths Is Wrong
One hundred and fifty years of mathematics will be proved wrong if a new computer program stops running. Thankfully, it's unlikely to happen, but the code behind...
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The Internet's Favorite Website
It's usually idle curiosity that drives me to Wikipedia.
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How Will People Interact with Technology in the Future?
Researchers from Bristol University's Bristol Interaction Group this week will present new research focusing on how people will interact with technology in the...
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ACM Awards 2016 Gödel Prize to Inventors of Concurrent Separation Logic
ACM SIGACT and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science on Monday awarded the creators of Concurrent Separation Logic the 2016 Gödel Prize.
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