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Search For Lost Jet Is Complicated By Geopolitics and Rivalries
The frantic hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been, in one way, a nearly miraculous display of international collaboration: 26 nations, many of them rivals...
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How the Nsa Would Get Phone Data nder Obama Administration's New Plan
One of the key points in the "fact sheet" that the White House published today about its plan to end the NSA's bulk collection of phone record data is that while...
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Apple Seeks Greater Emoji Racial Diversity
Apple says it wants to boost the ethnic diversity of the emoji used in text-messaging apps.
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Cross-Industry Iot Group Pushes For Gear That Works Together
Five information technology and equipment firms launched the Industrial Internet Consortium Thursday to guide standards for the Internet of Things.
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The Curious Nature of Sharing Cascades on Facebook
Although the bulk of content on Facebook is shared only a few times, some can be reshared millions of times.
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Hypnotic Art Shows How Patterns Emerge From Randomness in Nature
British mathematician Alan Turing is perhaps best known for the Turing test, which determines if a computer can be considered intelligent based on whether it can...
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Consortium Wants Standards For 'internet of Things'
Attention: Internet of Things. For better or worse, big boys are in the room.
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How Vintage Tech Helped S Track the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet
The saga of MH370, the Malaysian Airlines flight missing for more than two weeks, seems to be entering its final chapter.
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Justice Scalia Looks Forward to Hearing Nsa Spying Case
Justice Antonin Scalia signaled during a law school talk on March 21 that the Supreme Court is very much aware that legal challenges to the National Security Agency's...
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Don't Let Personal Data Escape Your Smartphone
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne researchers have developed an application that automatically secures shared information on a mobile phone.
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Dwarf Planet Stretches Solar System's Edge
The Solar System just got a lot more far-flung.
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The Virtual Genius of Oculus Rift
To understand why Oculus Rift matters, it helps to know who John Carmack is.
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The Robot Tricks to Bridge the Uncanny Valley
If A robot bleeped and squeaked with personality like R2D2 from Star Wars, would you like it better?
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Artificial Intelligence Challenge: Could a Robot Give Its Own Ted Talk?
The TED organization has partnered with X Prize to develop a competition to have an AI-based robot "deliver a compelling TED Talk with no human involvement."
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Software Would Make 3D Maps sing Smartphones
Researchers at the University of Minnesota and Google have developed software that can create a three-dimensional map with a smartphone.
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Computers Spot False Faces Better Than People
A computer system bested humans in recognizing real or fake expressions of pain.
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Mugshots Built from Dna Data
Leaving a hair at a crime scene could one day be as damning as leaving a photograph of your face.
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