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Fair se Prevails as Supreme Court Rejects Google Books Copyright Case
The Supreme Court on Monday declined (PDF) to hear a challenge from the Authors Guild and other writers claiming Google's scanning of their books amounts to wanton...
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Attention Students: Put Your Laptops Away
As laptops become smaller and more ubiquitous, and with the advent of tablets, the idea of taking notes by hand just seems old-fashioned to many students today.
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Location Data on Two Apps Enough to Identify Someone, Says Study
Individuals can be identified by matching their movements across two datasets, according to researchers at Columbia University and Google.
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Robots Can Help Young Patients Engage in Rehab
Researchers from the Swinburne University of Technology are exploring the use of social robots as therapeutic aids in pediatric rehabilitation.
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Two-Factor Authentication Bypassed in Simple Attacks
VU University Amsterdam researchers have demonstrated practical attacks against both Android and iOS devices.
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Gene-Edited Crispr Mushroom Escapes S Regulation
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will not regulate a mushroom genetically modified with the gene-editing tool CRISPR–Cas9.
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Your Phone Number Is All a Hacker Needs to Read Texts, Listen to Calls and Track You
Hackers have again demonstrated that no matter how many security precautions someone takes, all a hacker needs to track their location and snoop on their phone...
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Apple, Fbi to Clash Again in Congress Over Encryption
Apple Inc and the FBI will return to Congress next week to testify before lawmakers about their heated disagreement over law enforcement access to encrypted devices...
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Saturn Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected the faint but distinct signature of dust coming from beyond our solar system.
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Firefighters' Positioning System May Be sed to Monitor Walking Difficulty For Elderly
Researchers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology have fine-tuned a positioning system used in fire rescue operations to collect data on people's foot movements...
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A Flexible Camera: A Radically Different Approach to Imaging
Columbia University researchers have developed a sheet camera that can be wrapped around objects to capture images that cannot be taken with conventional cameras...
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Autonomous Vehicles Cannot Be Test-Driven Enough Miles to Demonstrate Their Safety
A new study finds autonomous vehicles would have to drive at least hundreds of millions of miles to generate enough data to clearly demonstrate their safety.
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Why a Chip That's Bad at Math Can Help Computers Tackle Harder Problems
Your math teacher lied to you. Sometimes getting your sums wrong is agood thing.
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A Scheme to Encrypt the Entire Web Is Actually Working
Apple's move to encrypt your iPhone and WhatsApp's rollout of end-to-end encrypted messaging have generated plenty of privacy applause and law enforcement controversy...
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'this Is the Irs Regarding Your Tax Filings,' Says Trio of Overseas Robocallers
As if political campaigns, shady telemarketers hawking home security systems, and the rest of the usual suspects aren't generating enough automated phone calls,...
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Nasa Study Solves Two Mysteries About Wobbling Earth
Using satellite data on how water moves around Earth, NASA scientists have solved two mysteries about wobbles in the planet's rotation—one new and one more than...
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Moore's Law's Ultraviolet Savior Is Finally Ready
It is easy to take for granted the advancements in our mobile phones, wearable electronics, and other gadgets. But advances in computing rely on processes that...
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Computer Scientists Present New Method to Reconstruct Signaling Pathways
Researchers have developed a new computational algorithm that reconstructs signaling pathways from a background network of molecular interactions.
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Researchers se Light and Sound Waves to Control Electron States
University of Oregon researchers have combined light and sound to control electron states in an atom-like system.
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