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Self-Driving Cars Reach a Fork in the Road, and Automakers Take Different Routes
Automakers are taking divergent approaches to the development and deployment of driverless vehicles.
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All the Ways Your Wi-Fi Router Can Spy on You
City dwellers spend nearly every moment of every day awash in Wi-Fi signals.
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Blockchain Could Bring Electronic Voting to Australia By 2017
Australia intends to employ blockchain technology to let citizens vote online.
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Reconciling Quantum Physics with Math
Mathematicians explore the root of many problems in developing a proof for the Kadison-Singer problem.
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Researchers Create 3D Faces From Online Photos to Defeat Face Authentication Systems
Researchers say they have developed a virtual reality-based cyberattack that can reproduce the human face well enough to trick face-authentication systems.
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Hints Suggest an Insider Helped the Nsa 'equation Group' Hacking Tools Leak
A group called the Shadow Brokers made headlines this month by leaking a hacking tool belonging to the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) team. Now this week...
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Happy 25th Birthday to the World Wide Web
Internauts, today we celebrate this glorious technology that brings us all together! On August 23, 1991--25 years ago today--the public gained access for the first...
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Linux Turns 25, Is Bigger and More Professional Than Ever
The Linux operating system kernel is 25 years old this month. It was August 25, 1991 when Linus Torvalds posted his famous message announcing the project, claiming...
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Chip Technology Keeps Checked Luggage in Check
On a recent Southwest Airlines flight from Baltimore, Shvilla Rasheem arrived in Indianapolis, but her luggage did not.
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Internet Voting Leaves Out a Cornerstone of Democracy: The Secret Ballot
Internet voting invalidates the secrecy of ballots, according to a report from Verified Voting.
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These States Are at the Greatest Risk of Having Their Voting Process Hacked
Not everything belongs on the Internet, and the American electoral process is a textbook example. But 31 states don't see it that way.
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98 Personal Data Points that Facebook ses to Target Ads to You
Say you're scrolling through your Facebook Newsfeed and you encounter an ad so eerily well-suited, it seems someone has possibly read your brain.
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Navy Looking at Teaching Robots How to Behave
The U.S. Navy is funding projects to train autonomous systems to not harm humans.
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Nowhere to Hide: c San Diego Researchers Devise New Method For Detecting Hardware Trojans
A new technique for detecting Trojans hidden in a device's hardware has been developed by University of California, San Diego computer scientists.
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The Shadow Brokers Mess Is What Happens When the Nsa Hoards Zero-Days
When the NSA discovers a new method of hacking into a piece of software or hardware, it faces a dilemma.
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Powerful Nsa Hacking Tools Have Been Revealed Online
The online exposure of some of the most powerful hacking tools developed by the U.S. National Security Agency could threaten the agency's operations and security...
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China Launches Quantum Satellite in Bid to Pioneer Secure Communications
China launched the world's first quantum communications satellite from the Gobi Desert early Tuesday, a major step in the country’s bid to be at the forefront of...
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Spiking Genomic Databases with Misinformation Could Protect Patient privacy
Large genomic databases are indispensable for scientists looking for genetic variations associated with diseases. But they come with privacy risks for people who...
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China's New Satellite Would Create the World's Largest Quantum Network
China's quantum network could soon span two continents, thanks to a satellite launched earlier today. Launched at 1:40PM ET, the Quantum Science Satellite is designed...
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