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Ebay's Security Chief Cites Evolving Cyberthreats
It seems there's nowhere to hide these days from cyberattacks.
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How the Country's Top Privacy Cop Is Trying to Protect Consumers in the Digital Age
As the digital economy has exploded, tech companies are collecting untold amounts of data on everyday Americans.
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Google on Eu Troubles: 'we Don't Always Get It Right'
Google is in hot water in Europe, and its head of European operations is trying to cool things off.
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Infiltrating 'the Dark Net,' Where Criminals, Trolls, and Extremists Reign
There's a side to the Internet most people have never visited.
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Should Google Be Forced to Offer Privacy Apps? E Fight Offers Test
Disconnect, which makes an ad-blocking app, filed an EU antitrust complaint against Google.
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Behind the Downfall at Blackberry
Ever since Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis stepped down as co-chairmen and co-chief executives of BlackBerry, neither has spoken much in public about the once-dominant...
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Attention White-Collar Workers: The Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs
From the self-checkout aisle of the grocery store to the sports section of the newspaper, robots and computer software are increasingly taking the place of humans...
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Crispr Germline Engineering—the Community Speaks
With the first papers appearing in the literature that describe CRISPR-Cas9 engineering of human reproductive cells, are we at a new Asilomar moment?
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Google's Vint Cerf Warns Against Fragmentation of Internet
Internet pioneer Vinton G. Cerf warned Thursday that political and technological forces threaten universal access and integrity, which he described as the foundation...
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Does Artificial Intelligence Pose a Threat?
After decades as a sci-fi staple, artificial intelligence has leapt into the mainstream.
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Concerns of an Artificial Intelligence Pioneer
In January, the British-American computer scientist Stuart Russell drafted and became the first signatory of an open letter calling for researchers to look beyond...
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3 Questions on Killer Robots
Delegates to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons are meeting this week in Geneva to discuss fully autonomous weapons—machines that could...
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Hbo's John Oliver Hits Snowden Hard on Nsa Leaks
Edward Snowden and an unlikely interviewer squared-off on HBO over the leaks that exposed the National Security Agency's extensive surveillance programs.
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First White House Data Chief Discusses His Top Priorities
Data science is not entirely new to Washington, D.C.—nor is DJ Patil, who was recently named as the U.S.'s first chief data scientist.
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Apple's Tim Cook Leads Different
Tim Cook assumed he was ready for the harsh glare that shines on Apple's CEO.
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Dj Patil Talks Nerdy to S
DJ Patil was recently named the White House's deputy chief technology officer for data policy and chief data scientist, making him the first-ever national datacoined...
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Edward Snowden Issues 'call to Arms' For Tech Companies in Secret Sxsw Meeting
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was a highlight of last year's SXSW, where he gave one of his first public speeches. This year, Snowden was back at SXSW—but only...
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Data and Goliath: Bruce Schneier on the Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
The book chronicles how governments and corporation have built an unprecedented surveillance state.
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Smartphones Set For Large-Scale Health Studies
Countless owners of smartphones and wearable devices are already using their devices to track their sleep, exercise, blood pressure and other measures of health...
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