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Multimodal AI Connects the Digital Dots
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Hong Kong Protesters se a Mesh Network to Organise
Hong Kong's mass protest is networked. Activists are relying on a free app that can send messages without any cellphone connection.
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Quantum Internet Could Keep S Safe from Spying Eyes
Quantum networks are quietly spreading across the world.
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Google's Fact-Checking Bots Build Vast Knowledge Bank
Google is building the largest store of knowledge in human history—and it's doing so without any human help.
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Traffic Light Hackers Could Cause Jams Across the US
Branden Ghena pulls his car up under a traffic light in a city in Michigan.
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Twitter Bots Grow p and Take On the World
On 18 July, someone in the Russian government edited Wikipedia.
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U.s. Government Chatbot Gets You to Tell All
Want access to the U.S. government's secrets? Talk to the robot.
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How Isis Is Winning the Online War For Iraq
As the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) claimed control of Iraq's biggest oil refinery and akey border crossing between Iraq and Jordan—it lost a key...
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Criminal Gang Connections Mapped via Phone Metadata
Software has been used to tap metadata from phones to map links between a criminal network in Sicily.
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Atomic Time Lord to Battle Sneaky High-Speed Trades
Welcome to the room where time lives. I am standing in a space bristling with atomic clocks at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, U.K., which generates...
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Perjurers and Fake Reviews Train Software to Spot Lies
Lawyers and judges use skill and instinct to sense who might be lying in court.
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'Soft' Biometrics Is the New Way to Monitor People
Cameras are strewn around our environment, catching glimpses of our faces everywhere we go, yet even the best facial recognition technology still has a hard time...
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My Quantum Algorithm Won't Break the Internet… Yet
Internet security relies on the fact that our computers can't break its cryptosystems. But the quantum algorithm you devised has the potential to do just that.
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Craig Venter: Why I Put My Name in Synthetic Genomes
How has the definition of life changed during your lifetime?
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Silk Road Bust Hints at Fbi's New Cybercrime Powers
The biggest drug marketplace on the Internet has been busted.
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Matchstick-Sized Sensor Can Record Your Private Chats
Everyone knows that to have a private chat in the NSA era, you go outdoors.
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Submarine Internet Cables Are a Gift For Spooks
It's a golden age for spying. The subsea fibre-optic cables that carry telephone and Internet traffic are a technological marvel—and a gift to intelligence agencies...
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Mapping Malware's Genome to Fight Future Attacks
Every year a computer worm emerges to stalk the Internet, each one seemingly bigger and badder than the last (see diagram).
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Warning, Speedsters: You Can't Fool Quantum Radar
Is it a bird, a plane, or a speeding car?
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