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How Social Media Silences Debate
The Internet might be a useful tool for activists and organizers, in episodes as momentous as the Arab Spring or as trivial as the Ice Bucket Challenge. But overall...
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Why Big Data Has Some Big Problems When It Comes to Public Policy
For all the talk about using big data and data science to solve the world’s problems—and even all the talk about big data as one of the world’s problems—it seems...
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Looking to the Future of Data Science
The Association for Computing Machinery, a leading professional association in computer science, is holding its annual conference this week, focusing on what we’re...
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In Praise of Efficient Price Gouging
In the four years since the car service Uber launched, it has been beset by criticism from myriad groups, including city officials annoyed by its sometimes cavalier...
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The Surveillance Engine: How the Nsa Built Its Own Secret Google
The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a "Google-like" search engine built to share more than...
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For Sale: Systems that Can Secretly Track Where Cellphone sers Go Around the Globe
Makers of surveillance systems are offering governments across the world the ability to track the movements of almost anybody who carries a cellphone, whether they...
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Robotic Brain 'learns' Skills from the Internet
Robo Brain is designed to acquire a vast range of skills and knowledge from publicly available information sources such as YouTube.
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Robotics: How Machines See the World
Can you tell the difference between a human and a soda can?
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Galileo: What Does a More Accurate Sat-Nav System Mean?
With the planned launch of two satellites aboard a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana later this month, Europe is pushing ahead with its own satellite-navigation system...
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Nasa Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Crosses Neptune's Orbit
NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has traversed the orbit of Neptune. This is its last major crossing en route to becoming the first probe to make a close...
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Rosetta: Landing Site Search Narrows
Using detailed information collected by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft during its first two weeks at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, five locations have been identified...
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Next For Virtual Reality: Video, Without the Games
Nearly all the hype around virtual reality—much of it fanned by Facebook’s $2 billion acquisition of Oculus VR, the headset maker—is about how the technology can...
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China Targets Own Operating System to Take on Likes of Microsoft, Google
China could have a new homegrown operating system by October to take on imported rivals such as Microsoft Corp, Google Inc and Apple Inc, Xinhua news agency said...
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A Chinese Internet Giant Starts to Dream
Punk bands from Blondie to the Ramones once played in Broadway Studios, an age-worn 95-year-old neoclassical building surrounded by strip clubs in San Francisco’s...
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New Era in Safety When Cars Talk to One Another
The U.S. Department of Transportation this week announced a plan to eventually require that vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications systems be installed in all...
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Tor Project's Struggle to Keep the Dark Net in the Shadows
The BBC has interviewed Andrew Lewman, executive director of the Tor Project.
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Google's Fact-Checking Bots Build Vast Knowledge Bank
Google is building the largest store of knowledge in human history—and it's doing so without any human help.
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Listening In: The Navy Is Tracking Ocean Sounds Collected By Scientists
In a retired shore station for transpacific communications cables on the western coast of Vancouver Island sits a military computer in a padlocked cage.
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Nersc Launches Next-Generation Code Optimization Effort
The U.S. Department of Energy is working to address a gap in its Exascale Science Applications Program, an effort designed to support its Cori supercomputer.
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