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Wikileaks: The CIA Is Using Popular Tvs, Smartphones and Cars to Spy on Their Owners
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Wikileaks: The CIA Is Using Popular Tvs, Smartphones and Cars to Spy on Their Owners

The latest revelations about U.S. government's powerful hacking tools potentially takes surveillance right into the homes and hip pockets of billions of users worldwide...

How Hard Is It to Get an Intelligence Wiretap? Pretty Hard. 
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How Hard Is It to Get an Intelligence Wiretap? Pretty Hard. 

Wiretaps on Americans in foreign intelligence investigations are not easy to get. And if you're a candidate for president, it's even harder. 

Modeling Gun Violence as a Contagion
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Modeling Gun Violence as a Contagion

Using data to try to keep people from getting shot.

­sing Game Theory to Predict Cyberattacks on Elections and Voting Machines
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­sing Game Theory to Predict Cyberattacks on Elections and Voting Machines

An algorithm based on game theory can be used to protect against efforts to tamper with election results.

Baxter the Robot Fixes Its Mistakes By Reading Your Mind
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Baxter the Robot Fixes Its Mistakes By Reading Your Mind

Baxter is but a child, with bright eyes and a subtle grin.

To Keep Tor Hack Source Code Secret, Doj Dismisses Child Porn Case
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To Keep Tor Hack Source Code Secret, Doj Dismisses Child Porn Case

Rather than share the now-classified technological means that investigators used to locate a child porn suspect, federal prosecutors in Washington state have ...

Artificial Data Give the Same Results as Real Data--Without Compromising Privacy
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Artificial Data Give the Same Results as Real Data--Without Compromising Privacy

The Synthetic Data Vault is a new machine-learning system that automatically creates synthetic data, which can be used in data science efforts that otherwise would...

Software Engineers Have Figured Out a Way to Turn Charts Into Music For the Blind
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Software Engineers Have Figured Out a Way to Turn Charts Into Music For the Blind

Legally blind SAS software engineer Ed Summers in February guided the company's release of a free browser plug-in that scans Web pages for graphs or charts and...

Kids Want Parental Help With Online Risk, but Fear Parental Freak Outs
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Kids Want Parental Help With Online Risk, but Fear Parental Freak Outs

Researchers found teens rarely talked to their parents about potentially risky online experiences.

Social Media Algorithm Says Trump 'tweets Like a Bachelor'
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Social Media Algorithm Says Trump 'tweets Like a Bachelor'

Researchers have developed an algorithm that predicts a user's marital status with 86% accuracy using data from Twitter, Foursquare, and Instagram.

Singing Posters and Talking Shirts: Uw Engineers Turn Everyday Objects Into Fm Radio Stations
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Singing Posters and Talking Shirts: Uw Engineers Turn Everyday Objects Into Fm Radio Stations

Researchers are enabling everyday objects to communicate directly with smartphones and car radios and transmit information to them.

How Rival Bots Battled Their Way to Poker Supremacy
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How Rival Bots Battled Their Way to Poker Supremacy

A complex variant of poker is the latest game to be mastered by artificial intelligence (AI). And it has been conquered not once, but twice, by two rival bots developed...

Nasa Orbiter Steers Clear of Mars Moon Phobos
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Nasa Orbiter Steers Clear of Mars Moon Phobos

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft performed a previously unscheduled maneuver this week to avoid a collision in the near future with Mars' moon Phobos.

First Hint of How Dna Calculators Could Supercharge Computing
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First Hint of How Dna Calculators Could Supercharge Computing

By making DNA endlessly change, researchers have shown how a biological computer might one day solve problems much faster than conventional computers or even ...

Machine Learning Is Bringing the Cosmos Into Focus
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Machine Learning Is Bringing the Cosmos Into Focus

The telescope offers one of the most seductive suggestions a technological object can carry: the idea that humans might pick up a thing, peer into it, and finally...

Medical Devices Are the Next Security Nightmare
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Medical Devices Are the Next Security Nightmare

Hacked medical devices make for scary headlines.

Building the Quantum Internet
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Building the Quantum Internet

Taking the first steps toward building a long-range network that can connect super-fast quantum computers, or provide absolutely secure, tamper-free communication...

Lies, Propaganda and Fake News: A Challenge For Our Age
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Lies, Propaganda and Fake News: A Challenge For Our Age

Who was the first black president of America?

Martian Winds Carve Mountains, Move Dust, Raise Dust
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Martian Winds Carve Mountains, Move Dust, Raise Dust

On Mars, wind rules. Wind has been shaping the Red Planet's landscapes for billions of years and continues to do so today.

How Bioinformatics Tools Are Bringing Genetic Analysis to the Masses
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How Bioinformatics Tools Are Bringing Genetic Analysis to the Masses

For doctors trying to treat people who have symptoms that have no clear cause, gene-sequencing technologies might help in pointing them to a diagnosis. But the...
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