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Judge's Word on Nsa Program Won't Be the Last
A federal judge made headlines Monday by declaring that the National Security Agency's bulk collection of millions of Americans' telephone records is likely unconstitutional...
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The Startling Beauty of the Microscopic
When Robert Hooke first looked at a piece of cork under a microscope in 1665, he was looking for scientific reasons–but that didn’t keep him from seeing the intrinsic...
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Officials Say .s. May Never Know Extent of Snowden's Leaks
American intelligence and law enforcement investigators have concluded that they may never know the entirety of what the former National Security Agency contractor...
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New Wave Display Technology Rises at Uc San Diego
The nw Wide-Angle Virtual Environment (WAVE) display is a curved wall array of 35 55-inch LG commercial liquid crystal display monitors.
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Physical Keys Could Take Away the Pain of Passwords
Technology companies are experimenting with physical keys to take the place of passwords.
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Show S a Better Way Than Collecting Metadata, Nsa Director Says to Critics
Critics of the U.S. National Security Agency's bulk collection of U.S. residents' telephone records should offer a better way to track terrorists and protect the...
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Hipster, Surfer or Biker? Computers May Soon Be Able to Tell the Difference
Researchers are developing an algorithm that uses group pictures to determine what urban tribe a specific person belongs to, with up to 48-percent accuracy.
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Artificial Intelligence Goes Public
Researchers from several U.K. institutions are collaborating on a project that will use robots to serve as a proxy for people in public spaces.
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Hundreds of Teens Attend Computer Science Education Day at Cal
The University of California, Berkeley held its annual Computer Science Education Day on Dec. 10, drawing hundreds of students from across the Bay Area.
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Bots Now 'account For 61% of Web Traffic'
If you are visiting this page the chances are that you are not a human, at least according to research.
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Meet the Robot Telemarketer Who Denies She's A Robot
The phone call came from a charming woman with a bright, engaging voice to the cell phone of a TIME Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer.
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For Steve Ballmer, a Lasting Touch on Microsoft
On the eve of his exit as chief executive officer of Microsoft, after more than a decade on the job, Steve Ballmer is more than ever a CEO whose image does not...
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New System Allows For High-Accuracy, Through-Wall, 3D Motion Tracking
Imagine playing a video game like Call of Duty or Battlefield and having the ability to lead your virtual army unit while moving freely throughout your house.
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Skin Pigment Could Power Safe, Implantable Battery
A battery made with the skin pigment melanin could one day provide power for electronic devices installed within the human body.
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Edward Snowden, The Dark Prophet
To avoid surveillance, the first four Americans to visit Edward Snowden in Moscow carried no cell phones or laptops.
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Inside the Effort to Kill a Web Fraud 'botnet'
For months, investigators at Microsoft Corp. hunkered down in front of their computer monitors, patiently stalking the shadowy figures behind what the company says...
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Algorithms Are Watching
New research involves the use of algorithms in data mining and the analysis of social networks to study how information moves within large social graphs.
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Nasa Jsc Unveils 'valkyrie' Drc Robot
When teams participating in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) were announced last year, almost all of them provided reasonably detailed renderings that gave us...
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