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Why the Silk Road Trial Matters
Ross Ulbricht is finally getting his day in court, 15 months after plainclothes FBI agents grabbed him in the science fiction section of a San Francisco library...
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Robotic Camera Mimics Human Operators to Anticipate Basketball Game Action
A new method developed by Disney Research scientists should enable automated cameras to produce video imagery that is smooth and aesthetically pleasing.
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Can the Government Ban Encryption?
Whenever the terrorist threat is increased, as it has been since the tragic events in Paris last week, so too are the calls from politicians to increase the powers...
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IBM Wins Most Patents—again—but Google and Apple Climb in Rankings
There was little change among the largest recipients of U.S. patents in 2014. But two big Silicon Valley names—Google and Apple—continued climbing the charts.
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Vision System For Household Robots
For household robots ever to be practical, they'll need to be able to recognize the objects they're supposed to manipulate.
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Nasa Mars Rover Opportunity Climbs to High Point on Rim
After completing two drives this week, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has paused to photograph the panoramic vista from the highest point the rover has...
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Robots Are Sneaking p On Congress (along with Four Other Tech Trends)
One of the best Twitter accounts inside the Beltway or out—belongs to former representativeJohn Dingell (D-Mich.), who announced his retirement with self-effacing...
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How Reverse-Engineering the Brain Could Help Machines Learn
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has announced a research and development program to reverse-engineer the algorithms brains use.
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FBI Is Broadening Surveillance Role, Report Shows
Since passage of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has played an ever-larger role in the warrantless wiretapping program...
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Language Translation Tech Starts to Deliver on Its Promise
The tech industry is doing its best to topple the Tower of Babel.
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The Leap Second Is About to Rattle the Internet. But There's a Plot to Kill It
The Qantas Airways computers started crashing just after midnight.
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Snowden: .s. Has Put Too Much Emphasis on Cyber-Offense, Needs Defense
In an on-camera interview with James Bamford for an upcoming episode of PBS' NOVA, Edward Snowden warned that the U.S. Department of Defense and National Security...
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Scientists Pinpoint Saturn With Exquisite Accuracy
Scientists have paired NASA's Cassini spacecraft with the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio-telescope system to pinpoint the position...
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A Cyberattack Has Caused Confirmed Physical Damage For the Second Time Ever
Amid all the noise the Sony hack generated over the holidays, a far more troubling cyber attack was largely lost in the chaos. Unless you follow security news closely...
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You Will Be Able to Touch the Internet By 2035, and It Will Touch Back
A Dresden University of Technology professor anticipates the "Tactile Internet" as one potential result of the speed of next-generation G5 wireless technology.
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Hackers Could Make Smart Homes Stupid--or Worse
A professor working to bolster smart-home security says now is the time to start thinking about cybersecurity nightmares.
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Adding Leap Second This Year Expected to Cause Internet Problems
A leap second will be added to the year this summer, and many Internet companies are concerned this will cause problems for websites.
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Why Passenger Planes Can Still Vanish
By Dec. 30, when search teams began to recover debris and bodies from the apparent crash site of AirAsia flight QZ8501, the airline industry had begun to hear renewed...
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This Computer Knows When to Hold 'em, Knows When to Fold 'em
Card sharks, beware. A new program cannot be beaten at a variety of poker called heads-up limit Texas Hold 'em—at least in a human lifetime—a team of computer scientists...
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