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Brain-Machine Interface Isn't Sci-Fi Anymore
Thomas Reardon puts a terrycloth stretch band with microchips and electrodes woven into the fabric—a steampunk version of jewelry—on each of his forearms. ...
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How Apple Is Bringing US Into the Age of Facial Recognition Whether We're Ready or Not
A whiff of dystopian creepiness has long wafted in the air whenever facial recognition has come up. Books, movies and television shows have portrayed the technology...
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The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election
Sometimes an international offensive begins with a few shots that draw little notice.
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How Apple Finally Made Siri Sound More Human
The first time Alex Acero saw Her, he watched it like a normal person.
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The Smartphone's Future: It's All About the Camera
We all know the drill. For the last decade, smartphones have gotten thinner and faster and thinner and faster and, well, you get the picture.
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How We Won Gold in the Cyborg Olympics' Brain Race
In October 2016, inside a sold-out arena in Zurich, a man named Numa Poujouly steered his wheelchair up to the central podium.
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A Game You Can Control With Your Mind
When you pull the headset over your eyes and the game begins, you are transported to a tiny room with white walls.
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Blossom: A Handmade Approach to Social Robotics from Cornell and Google
As excited as we are about the forthcoming generation of social home robots (including Jibo, Kuri, and many others), it's hard to ignore the fact that most of them...
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Why GPS Spoofing Is a Threat to Companies, Countries
Technology that falsifies navigation data presents significant dangers to public and private organizations.
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A Hunt For Ways to Combat Online Radicalization
Law enforcement officials, technology companies and lawmakers have long tried to limit what they call the "radicalization" of young people over the internet.
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Tracing the Sources of Today's Russian cyberthreat
Beyond carrying all of our phone, text and internet communications, cyberspace is an active battleground, with cybercriminals, government agents and even military...
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How Secure Are Your Messages?
Researchers at Brigham Young University have found most users of Facebook Messenger, What'sApp, and the Viber messaging apps leave themselves open to fraud or other...
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First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News
Fake news and the way it spreads on social media is emerging as one of the great threats to modern society.
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New Web Tool Tracks Russian 'influence Ops' on Twitter
The Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan project backed by the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), has launched a Web tool to keep tabs on...
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Cars Suck p Data About You. Where Does It All Go?
Cars have become rolling listening posts. They can track phone calls and texts, log queries to websites, record what radio stations you listen to—even tell you...
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For Computers, Too, It's Hard to Learn to Speak Chinese
Researchers often call 2017 the year of the conversational computer in China.
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Level p: How Video Games Evolved to Solve Significant Scientific Problems
In the early 1950s, just as rock 'n' roll was hinting at social change, the first video games were quietly being designed in the form of technology demonstrations—and...
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AI in Contact Centers
Artificial intelligence technologies are being deployed to improve the customer service experience.
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DARPA Wants Brain Implants That Record From 1 Million Neurons
DARPA is known for issuing big challenges. Still, the mission statement for its new Neural Engineering Systems Design program is a doozy: Make neural implants that...
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