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Isis' Opsec Manual Reveals How It Handles Cybersecurity
In the wake of the Paris attacks, US government officials have been vocal in their condemnation of encryption, suggesting that US companies like Apple and Google...
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Paris Attacks Fan Encryption Debate
White House and congressional staffers have asked Silicon Valley executives for new talks in Washington, D.C., to resolve a standoff over encrypted communication...
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Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks
There are people who stand every morning outside the Carroll Street station in Brooklyn staring dead-eyed into the middle distance.
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The Machine-Vision Algorithm For Analyzing Children's Drawings
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have developed a machine-vision algorithm that can objectively analyze children's drawings. ...
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Millions of Sensitive Records Exposed By Mobile Apps Leaking Back-End Credentials
Researchers have found thousands of mobile applications implement cloud-based, back-end services in a way that lets anyone access sensitive records created by users...
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Researchers Develop System to Control Information Leaks From Smartphone Apps
Northeastern University researchers say they have found "extensive" leakage of users' information into network traffic from apps on mobile devices.
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Nasa Gives MIT a Humanoid Robot to Develop Software For Future Space Missions
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is home to one of two university research groups to receive a 6-foot, 290-pound humanoid robot.
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Machine Vision Algorithm Learns to Recognize Hidden Facial Expressions
A new machine-vision algorithm can detect and identify microexpressions better than humans can.
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Plant Scientists Tackle Big Data Problems at Workshop
The first Genomic and Open source Breeding Informatics Initiative workshop focused on developing a solution to handling big data in plant research programs.
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Georgia Tech Trains Watson AI to "chat," Spark More Creativity in Humans
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are using IBM's Watson to advance how computers could help humans creatively solve problems.
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Web Tool Helps People Visualize, Make Sense of Large Complex Datasets
A new Web-based tool being developed at Carnegie Mellon University allows analysts to explore raw data through dynamic visualizations with minimal time delay.
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Disney Software Makes It Easy to Design and Print Custom Walking Robots
A joint research project has yielded an interactive design system that enables hobbyists to create custom walking robots that can be printed in three dimensions...
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Crash Test Simulations Expose Real Risks
Researchers are developing computer models of vehicle crashes to provide more sophisticated information on how to improve restraints and other safety systems.
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The Dream Life of Driverless Cars
On a brisk afternoon in October, an oddly equipped Honda CR-V inched through London traffic.
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Single Artificial Neuron Taught to Recognize Hundreds of Patterns
Artificial intelligence is a field in the midst of rapid, exciting change. That's largely because of an improved understanding of how neural networks work and the...
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Edward Snowden Explains How to Reclaim Your Privacy
Last month, I met Edward Snowden in a hotel in central Moscow, just blocks away from Red Square.
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Court Says Tracking Web Histories Can Violate Wiretap Act
Federal courts have long given the government leeway to surveil and collect so-called "non-content" data—records of the senders and recipients of calls and emails...
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The Gene Hackers
At thirty-four, Feng Zhang is the youngest member of the core faculty at the Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T.
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The 116 Photos Nasa Picked to Explain Our World to Aliens
When Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched into space in 1977, their mission was to explore the outer solar system, and over the following decade, they did so admirably...
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