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Apple Gets Short-Term Win, But New Mysterious Fbi nlocking Method Looms
Less than 24 hours before a highly anticipated Tuesday court session where prosecutors and Apple lawyers would have squared off here in federal court, government...
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DARPA Wants to Hack Your Brain
The secretive U.S. military research division DARPA has announced plans to create a device that could accelerate learning in the human brain.
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Battery-Free Wearables of the Future Could Run Off Your Footsteps
Researchers at the University of Southampton have designed an insole to sit inside a person's shoe and harvest energy from their footsteps.
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This Trading Card Game AI Watches and Learns From You
Cryptozoic Entertainment is working to reimagine how people play video games with computer-controlled opponents.
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Mobile-Phone Health Apps Deliver Data Bounty
Last summer, physician Yvonne Chan wondered how the wildfires raging through Washington state were affecting people with asthma—for whom smoke and heat can trigger...
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Fbi May Not Need Apple to nlock San Bernardino Shooter's Iphone
The FBI may have found a way without Apple’s assistance to unlock the iPhone used by one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terrorist attack, Justice Department...
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tah's Online Caucus Gives Security Experts Heart Attacks
Security researchers pretty much uniformly agree that letting people vote online is a very bad idea, one that is fraught with risks and vulnerabilities that could...
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Long Before the Apple-Fbi Battle, Lavabit Sounded a Warning
Three years ago, Ladar Levison, the founder of the now-defunct secure email service known as Lavabit, was in the same position Apple finds itself today: facing...
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App to Tackle Impact of Injuries on Nfl Players
Researchers last week rolled out a new smartphone app to enable former NFL players and the general public to collectively participate in a clinical study to evaluate...
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Living Factories of the Future
From an evolutionary perspective, yeast has no business producing a pain killer. But by re-engineering the microbe's genome, Christina Smolke at Stanford University...
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Science Papers Reveal New Aspects of Pluto and its Moons
A year ago, Pluto was just a bright speck in the cameras of NASA's approaching New Horizons spacecraft, not much different than its appearances in telescopes since...
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Driverless Cars Must Have Steering Wheels, Brake Pedals, Feds Say
Driverless cars should have a fairly easy time getting the green light to operate on U.S. roadways, as long as they look and act like the vehicles people have been...
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The Fbi Warns That Car Hacking Is a Real Risk
It's been eight months since a pair of security researchers proved beyond any doubt that car hacking is more than an action movie plot device when they remotely ...
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Searching for the Particle Accelerator at the Heart of the Milky Way
We're rightly proud of the Large Hadron Collider, which accelerates protons up to 7 Tera-electron Volts before smashing them together.
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Astronomers Discover Colossal 'super Spiral' Galaxies
A strange new kind of galactic beast has been spotted in the cosmic wilderness.
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Oldest Ancient-Human Dna Details Dawn of Neanderthals
Matthias Meyer has just published the results of what may be the world's most wasteful genome-sequencing project.
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Bjarne Stroustrup Previews C++ 17
In an interview, C++ programming language creator Bjarne Stroustrup discusses its next planned iteration, C++ 17.
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Computer Scientists Produce Realistic Face Models From Video Recordings
Researchers say they have developed a way to quickly and easily produce very detailed face models.
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