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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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French Bureaucrats: We Won't Be Enslaved by Robots
France's highest administrative court dismissed the notion that artificial intelligence threatens humanity.
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How DOJ Took the Malware Fight into Your Computer
The U.S. Department of Justice increasingly is being allowed to delete malware from Americans' computers without their knowledge or authorization.
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Barcelona Bets on 'Digital Twin' as Future of City Planning
Officials in Barcelona, Spain, are using the Barcelona Supercomputing Center's MareNostrum supercomputer to improve urban planning with a digital twin of the city...
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Germany Unveils Quantum Computer to Keep Europe in Global Tech Race
Germany unveiled a quantum computer this week.
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Computing Professionals: Leave Internet Connectivity Out of Voting Machine Guidelines
ACM has asked the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to prohibit Internet connections from all voting equipment under an updated set of voluntary guidelines.
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Justices Struggle with .S. Demands for Overseas Data
The Supreme Court appeared to be divided Tuesday as it struggled to interpret whether a three-decade-old federal law gives the U.S. government the right to access...
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The Real Future of Work
In 2013, Diana Borland and 129 of her colleagues filed into an auditorium at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
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Facebook Struggles to Contain Russia Narrative
Facebook has been happy to keep congressional investigators focused on the Russian-bought online ads that helped sway voters in last year's election—despite the...
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Conservatives, Liberals nite Against Silicon Valley
The days of unqualified praise from Washington are over for the country's biggest tech companies, whose size and power are increasingly drawing attacks from both...
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Tech vs. Trump War Over Immigration Intensifies
Shortly after his election victory, Donald Trump assembled executives from tech giants including Amazon, Apple and Google for a meeting at Trump Tower meant to...
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Tech Scrambles After Trump Issues Immigration Order
President Donald Trump's broad executive order to restrict visas and refugees particularly from Muslim countries left tech giants like Apple, Facebook, Google and...
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Trump's Secret Data Reversal
Donald Trump has dismissed political data operations as "overrated," but his campaign is now bolstering its online fundraising and digital outreach by turning to...
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How to Keep the Internet Free and Open
The U.S. has long held a minimal oversight role over the Internet. It's time for that to end.
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The Robots That Saved Pittsburgh
It's hard to pinpoint the moment Pittsburgh began its three-decade climb back from the dead, but Red Whittaker marks the comeback from the instant he heard the...
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5 Things You Need to Know About NSA Phone Tracking
The revelation that the Obama administration is pursuing a massive surveillance program that tracks countless U.S. and international phone calls has brought privacy...
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Data Mining Is New Lobbying Gold
A congressman gets an earful from his neighbor after church about a tax bill. A senator suddenly finds old high school classmates calling her about an upcoming...
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White House Moves on Cybersecurity
The White House's strategy on cybersecurity: Co-opt the opposition.
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Leon Panetta on Cybersecurity: D.C. Action Needed
While Joe Biden and Paul Ryan were duking it out last Thursday night over U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was warning...
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Arab Spring: Tech As Tinder
The Internet tools of the Arab Spring have become the weapons of a new Arabian nightmare playing out at American diplomatic missions across North Africa and the...
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Cyberthreats Turn Into Megabucks
As Congress boosts spending on cybersecurity and mulls over new data safety requirements on private industry, some companies stand to get rich.12