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New York City Takes Aim at AI
The Big Apple fields an action plan for artificial intelligence.
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Imagine Your Face As Your Future Iphone Password
You may one day be able to unlock your iPhone based just on your good looks.
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Dart, Google's Controversial Web Language, Turns 1.0
Google recently announced the availability of version 1.0 of Web programming language Dart.
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Remembering Legendary Enigma Code Breaker Mavis Batey
Cracking one of the most complicated cipher devices ever created—the Enigma machine—may not have been what Britain's Mavis Batey envisioned when she studied the...
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Intelligence Chief Clapper Cites 'casablanca' in Dismissing Merkel Mess
You must remember this: A kiss is just a kiss, a spy is just a spy.
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How IBM Is Making Computers More Like Your Brain. For Real
Despite a strong philosophical connection, computers and brains inhabit separate realms in research.
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Yep, Apple's A7 Looks Twice As Fast–at Least For Fractal Math
Is Apple's A7 chip twice as fast at processing and graphics, as Apple promised when announcing the new iPhone 5S?
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Baseball's Beacon Trials Hint at Apple's Location Revolution
As we neared the threshold of the gates in front of the walkway to the home of the New York Mets, a message popped up on developer Chad Evans' space-gray iPhone...
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Privacy Entrepreneur Turns Nsa Snooping Into Profit (q&a)
In a double dose of irony, the National Security Agency's prying has given a big helping hand to Phil Zimmermann's business, Silent Circle.
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Behold! Jonathan Ive's Apple
Apple is today releasing the much-anticipated iOS 7, and with it, the biggest overhaul of its mobile operating system since it debuted in 2007 with the original...
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The Real Reasons Apple's 64-Bit A7 Chip Makes Sense
Apple injected a lot of marketing hyperbole into its claims about the wonders of 64-bit computing when it showed off the A7 processor at the heart of the new ...
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Nsa Claims It 'touches' Only 1.6 Percent of Internet Traffic
Just hours after President Obama defended the National Security Agency's activities, the foreign surveillance agency released a document in which it claims to review...
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Silent Circle Follows Lavabit in Shuttering Encrypted Email
Silent Circle shuttered its encrypted email service on Thursday, the second such closure in just a few hours in an apparent attempt to avoid government scrutiny...
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Google Boosts Handwriting Feature in Google Translate
With Google Translate's new handwriting tool, users can draw an unfamiliar word or character on their Android smartphone or tablet and get a translation.
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Nvidia's Graphics Brawn Powers Supercomputing Brains
Nvidia, trying to move its graphics chips into the supercomputing market, has found a niche helping engineers build brain-like systems called neural networks.
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The Next Big Thing in Tech: Augmented Reality
Augmented reality technologies have been in development in university labs and small companies for almost 50 years.
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Graphics Gurus Master Wispy Hair, Snowballs, Torn Paper
The computer graphics industry has an insatiable appetite for realism, and researchers next month will show how they plan to feed it with innovations in computerized...
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Crowdsourced Videos, Photos Could Aid Boston Blast Investigations
Law enforcement officials could have something very different on their hands as they investigate the dual bomb blasts that struck the Boston Marathon finish line...
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Apple's iMessage Encryption Trips Up Feds' Surveillance
Encryption used in Apple's iMessage chat service has stymied attempts by federal drug enforcement agents to eavesdrop on suspects' conversations, an internal government...
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