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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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General Agreement
Leslie Lamport contributed to the theory and practice of building distributed computing systems that work as intended.
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Secrets, Lies and Snowden's Email: Why I Was Forced to Shut Down Lavabit
My legal saga started last summer with a knock at the door, behind which stood two federal agents ready to to serve me with a court order requiring the installation...
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Neuromorphic Computing Gets Ready For the (Really) Big Time
A technology inspired by biological principles but 'steamrolled for decades' prepares to take off as Moore's Law approaches its long-anticipated end.
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Wireless Camera Network Offers New Possibilities For Security Systems
The Solar Wi-Fi Energy Efficient Tracking camera system is a prototype device for a solar-powered wireless network of smart cameras.
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Should .s. Hackers Fix Cybersecurity Holes or Exploit Them?
There's a debate going on about whether the U.S. government—specifically, the NSA and United States Cyber Command—should stockpile Internet vulnerabilities or disclose...
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Researchers Discover Critical Flaws in the Chip and Pin System
A pair of critical flaws in EMV smart card technology can be exploited to generate cloned cards that are undetectable by normal bank procedures.
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The Myths & Realities of How the Eu's New 'right To Be Forgotten' in Google Works
Is it true that anyone in the EU can have anything removed from Google and other search engines?
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For U.s. Companies That Challenge China, the Risk of Digital Reprisal
Two large American steel makers, U.S. Steel and Allegheny Technologies, each lost confidential files giving access to their computer networks.
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Fighting Off Virtual Attacks
Researchers say they have taken ideas from nature and applied them to security for software that runs on digital devices.
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New Algorithm Shakes p Cryptography
Researchers have uncovered a flaw in cryptography security, discrediting several cryptographic systems that were assumed to provide sufficient safeguards.
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"we're at Greater Risk": General Keith Alexander
Since Edward Snowden's revelations about government surveillence, we know more about how the National Security Agency has been interpreting Section 215 of the Patriot...
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Who Watches the Watchers? Big Data Goes nchecked
The National Security Agency might be tracking your phone calls. But private industry is prying far more deeply into your life.
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More Google 'forget' Requests Emerge After Eu Ruling
A man who tried to kill his family is among the latest to request removal of search results from Google.
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Computers See Your Face as a Child. Will They Recognize You as an Adult?
Questions have emerged about whether facial recognition technology could recognize an adult based on images of that person as a child.
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Do We Need Asimov's Laws?
In 1942, the science fiction author Isaac Asimov published a short story called Runaround in which he introduced three laws that governed the behaviour of robots...
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After European Court Decision, Google Works on a Link Removal Tool
Google will announce by the end of the month a mechanism for consumers to request that links to information about them be removed from the company’s search engine...
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Facebook Experiment Helps Battle Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
Researchers at Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University have adapted a detection tool for man-in-the-middle attacks for Facebook.
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Some Predictions About the Internet of Things and Wearable Tech From Pew Research
Remember the prediction that one day your oven would be connected to the Internet and have the ability to talk to your car?
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Estonian Electronic Voting System Vulnerable to Attacks, Researchers Say
Estonia's electronic voting system cannot guarantee fair elections because of fundamental security weaknesses and poor operations procedures.
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