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Log In to Your Phone with a Finger-Drawn Doodle Instead of a Password
Rather than painstakingly typing in passwords on your smartphone, you may eventually just swipe a shape or other pattern on its display to authenticate yourself...
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A New Look at Ancient Mars
Among Earth/s planetary neighbors, Mars has been the one on which humanity has most often, and most variously, projected its hopes and fears.
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Defense Secretary Favors Strong Encryption, Not 'back Doors'
Declaring that strong encryption is essential to the nation's security, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told a tech industry audience Wednesday that he's "not a believer...
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Getting From Here to There
University of Delaware researchers have developed a method to reduce the amount of data associated with intelligent transportation systems.
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How the Feds Could Get Into Iphones Without Apple's Help
It's a showdown that has the country mesmerized.
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Tiny Cameras to See in the Intestines
The digestive tract can be inhospitable terrain to examine.
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Advertising Company Will se Its Billboards To Track Passing Cellphones
Clear Channel Outdoor—one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the U.S.—is starting a new program called Radar that will use billboards to map real-world...
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Isis Turns to Foreign Encryption Products as Apple-Fbi Fight Rages in .s.
FBI and Apple officials spent Tuesday afternoon on Capitol Hill, debating American encryption laws with members of Congress. Prompted by a case related to the ...
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How to Tame Your Robot
Carnegie Mellon University researcher Madeline Gannon has created the means to instruct a robot to perform tasks by following a human coder's motions.
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White House Officials Soften Approach at Rsa Conference
Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch joined a parade of Obama administration officials to tech's home turf on Tuesday. Their message: National security depends on...
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Et Search: Look For the Aliens Looking For Earth
By watching how the light dims as a planet orbits in front of its parent star, NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered more than 1,000 worlds since its launch in...
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In Fighting FBI, Apple Says Free Speech Rights Mean No Forced Coding
The Justice Department wants Apple to write special software to help it break into the iPhone used by one the San Bernardino terrorists.
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Ny Judge: S Cannot Make Apple Provide Iphone Data
A federal judge ruled Monday that the U.S. Justice Department cannot use a 227-year-old law to force Apple to provide the FBI with access to locked iPhone data,...
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Pentagon Starts Aggressive Cyberwar Against Is
Not long after Defense Secretary Ash Carter prodded his cyber commanders to be more aggressive in the fight against Islamic State, the U.S. ramped up its offensive...
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Opportunity Mars Rover Goes Six-Wheeling up a Ridge
NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is working adeptly in some of the most challenging terrain of the vehicle's 12 years on Mars, on a slope of about 30 degrees...
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Automatic Programming Makes Swarm Robots Safer and More Reliable
An automated programming method previously used in manufacturing could make swarm robots more user-friendly and more reliable.
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Internet2 at 20: Alive and Kicking
Nearly two decades since its launch, Internet2 continues to run on U.S. university campuses.
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Research Meets Light Art in This Microsoft Installation
An installation at Microsoft's headquarters uses an open source software development kit to transform a room into a space of audiovisual elements to stimulate the...
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Exoplanet Census Suggests Earth Is Special After All
More than 400 years ago Renaissance scientist Nicolaus Copernicus reduced us to near nothingness by showing that our planet is not the center of the solar system...
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