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What Is the Big Secret Surrounding Stingray Surveillance?
Given the amount of mobile phone traffic that cell phone towers transmit, it is no wonder law enforcement agencies target these devices as a rich source of data...
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How the .s. Finally Tracked Down a Hacker Kingpin
For the U.S., the extradition of Ercan Findikoglu shows the value of patience when it comes to pursuing suspected hacker kingpins.
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Automated Vehicles: One Eye on the Road, Another on You
The importance of tracking motorist behavior will grow as more automated vehicles are rolled out, especially as it relates to the issue of assigning liability in...
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Building the Face of a Criminal from Dna
The face of a killer constructed from DNA left at the scene of a crime: it sounds like science fiction. But revealing the face of a criminal based on their genes...
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Ai's Next Frontier: Machines That nderstand Language
With the help of neural networks—vast networks of machines that mimic the web of neurons in the human brain—Facebook can recognize your face.
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See-and-Tell AI Machine Can Describe Objects It Observes
Young children can look at whatever is in front of them, and describe what they see—but for artificial intelligence systems, that's a daunting task.
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This Ancient Paper Art Makes Flexible, Super Strong Electronics
Teams of researchers are using Kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutting, as inspiration for developing flexible and stretchable electronics.
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Programming Intelligent nderwater Robots
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are testing a new method of programming autonomous underwater vehicles.
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Intriguing Geology of Ceres Revealed in New Pictures
Ceres, the largest asteroid in the Solar System, is finally getting its close-up. NASA's Dawn spacecraft arrived in March, and is now taking photographs from as...
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Facebook Can Recognise You in Photos Even If You're Not Looking
Thanks to the latest advances in computer vision, we now have machines that can pick you out of a line-up. But what if your face is hidden from view?
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'epic' Fail—how Opm Hackers Tapped the Mother Lode of Espionage Data
Government officials have been vague in their testimony about the data breaches—there was apparently more than one—at the Office of Personnel Management.
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Will Millimeter Waves Maximize 5g Wireless?
Every decade or so since the first cellular networks appeared the companies that make mobile devices and the networks linking them have worked out new requirements...
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Supercomputers Surprisingly Link Dna Crosses to Cancer
University of Texas at Austin researchers used supercomputers to discover a surprising link between cross-shaped pieces of DNA, or cruciforms, and human cancer. ...
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Drones Lack Autonomy
Researchers and engineers are exploring ways to help Unmanned Aerial Vehicles choose to fly themselves, and to fly more safely.
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Europe's First Humans: What Scientists Do and Don't Know
Over the past two years, breakthroughs in ancient genomics and archaeology have revolutionized the story of the first humans in Europe—who are thought to have appeared ...
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Facebook's New AI Can Paint, But Google's Knows How to Party
Facebook and Google are building enormous neural networks—artificial brains—that can instantly recognize faces, cars, buildings, and other objects in digital photos...
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Rosetta's Miro Instrument Maps Comet Water
Since last September, scientists using NASA's Microwave Instrument for Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO) on the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft have generated maps...
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Face Recognition Row Over Right to Identify You in the Street
"If you are walking down the street, a public street, should a company be able to identify you without your permission?"
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