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B-Secur HeartKey Tech nlocks Your Car with nique Rhythm of Your Heartbeat
B-Secur's HeartKey technology allows users to unlock and start their cars via the unique beating pattern of their heart.
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GCHQ Challenges Girls' Schools to Save the .K. From Cyberattacks
The U.K. Government Communications Headquarters has created a competition for 12- to 13-year-old girls aimed at drawing more women into cybersecurity.
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Can a Set of Equations Keep .S. Census Data Private?
Protecting confidentiality has been a priority for the Census Bureau for most—but not all—of its existence.
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Artificial Intelligence Vs. the Hackers
Last year, Microsoft Corp.'s Azure security team detected suspicious activity in the cloud computing usage of a large retailer: One of the company's administrators...
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The Elite Intel Team Still Fighting Meltdown and Spectre
Throughout 2018, researchers found exploitable weaknesses related to "speculative execution" vulnerabilities.
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The S and China Are in a Quantum Arms Race that Will Transform Warfare
In the 1970s, at the height of the Cold War, American military planners began to worry about the threat to US warplanes posed by new, radar-guided missile defenses...
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Curbs on A.I. Exports? Silicon Valley Fears Losing Its Edge
A common belief among tech industry insiders is that Silicon Valley has dominated the internet because much of the worldwide network was designed and built by Americans...
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niversity in North Carolina Issues Degrees sing Blockchain
East Coast Polytechnic Institute University graduates can now receive and digitally store degrees with blockchain technology, which delivers secure, immediate verification...
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E to Fund Bug Bounty Programs for 14 Open Source Projects
The European Union will cover the costs of bug bounty programs for 14 open source projects.
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AI Can Easily Break Text CAPTCHA
A new machine learning algorithm can crack most text-based CAPTCHAs within 0.05 seconds.
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Advancement of AI Opens Health Data Privacy to Attack
Artificial intelligence innovations have created new threats to health data privacy against which current laws and regulations cannot adequately safeguard.
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These Incredibly Realistic Fake Faces Show How Algorithms Can Now Mess with s
These faces don't seem particularly remarkable. They could easily be taken from, say, Facebook or LinkedIn. In reality, they were dreamed up by a new kind of AI...
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China's Tech Giants Want to Go Global. Just One Thing Might Stand in Their Way.
In the early 1980s, a cluster of fledging computer companies opened up shop in a chaotic corner of northwest Beijing, near the campuses of Peking and Tsinghua Universities...
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Hyundai Develops Fingerprint Tech to Unlock and Start Cars
Hyundai Motor has developed a system that will allow drivers to unlock and start their vehicles using only their fingerprints.
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Sydney Motorists sing Mobile Phones Will Be Snapped in Camera Trial
Drivers who illegally use mobile phones while driving will have their pictures taken along several motorways in Sydney, Australia, in a pilot of new high-tech cameras...
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Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch for Zero-day Flaw in the IE Browser
CVE-2018-8653 must be patched manually for now.
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How a Personality Trait Puts You at Risk for Cybercrime
A new study found that people with low self-control are more susceptible to malware attacks.
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Quantum Leap
A new proof supports a 25-year-old claim of the unique power of quantum computing.
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How Russian Trolls sed Meme Warfare to Divide America
There's a meme on Instagram, circulated by a group called "Born Liberal." A fist holds a cluster of strings, reaching down into people with television sets for...
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