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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Push For Encryption Law Falters Despite Apple Case Spotlight
After a rampage that left 14 people dead in San Bernardino, key U.S. lawmakers pledged to seek a law requiring technology companies to give law enforcement agencies...
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Meet Terrapattern, Google Earth's Missing Search Engine
"Why don't you click on the tennis court?" Golan Levin, an associate professor of art at Carnegie Mellon University, suggested.
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How the Constant Threat of War Shaped Israel's Tech Industry
Unit 8200 is Israel's most mysterious agency. No one outside knows exactly how it operates, who works there, or how they learn.
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IBM Memory Advances Could Speed p Your Phone
Ever wanted to pound your PC as it crawls through a restart or fumed that your phone takes much too long to launch an e-book app?
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China's Scary Lesson to the World: Censoring the Internet Works.
First there was the Berlin Wall. Now there is the Great Firewall of China, not a physical barrier preventing people from leaving, but a virtual one, preventing...
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What Happens When Big Data Blunders?
Big data is touted as a cure-all for challenges in business, government, and healthcare, but as disease outbreak predictions show, big data often fails.
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Reimagining Search
Search engine developers are moving beyond the problem of document analysis, toward the elusive goal of figuring out what people really want.
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What's Next For Digital Humanities?
New computational tools spur advances in an evolving field.
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China Quietly Targets .s. Tech Companies in Security Reviews
Chinese authorities are quietly scrutinizing technology products sold in China by Apple and other big foreign companies, focusing on whether they pose potential...
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How Will Virtual Reality Change Our Lives?
And it's not just gamers who are benefiting from the immersive possibilities it offers.
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What the New Science of Touch Says About Ourselves
On a bitter, soul-shivering, damp, biting gray February day in Cleveland—that is to say, on a February day in Cleveland—a handless man is handling a nonexistent...
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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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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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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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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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The Internet's Favorite Website
It's usually idle curiosity that drives me to Wikipedia.
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Police and Tech Giants Wrangle Over Encryption on Capitol Hill
Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the district attorney of Manhattan, visited Washington late last month to argue his case on a pressing issue: encryption.
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Stingrays, the Spy Tool the Government Tried, and Failed, to Hide
Stingrays, a secretive law enforcement surveillance tool, are one of the most controversial technologies in the government’s spy kit.
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