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Organizing Unstructured Data
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Stingrays, the Spy Tool the Government Tried, and Failed, to Hide
Stingrays, a secretive law enforcement surveillance tool, are one of the most controversial technologies in the government’s spy kit.
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Building AI Is Hard--So Facebook Is Building AI That Builds AI
Facebook is building artificial intelligence algorithms that can help build AI algorithms by automating much of the trial and error that goes into their testing...
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Building AI Is Hard‹so Facebook Is Building AI That Builds AI
Deep neural networks are remaking the Internet. Able to learn very human tasks by analyzing vast amounts of digital data, these artificially intelligent systems...
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The Critical Hole at the Heart of Our Cell Phone Networks
In February 2014, the US ambassador to Ukraine suffered an embarrassing leak.
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Two Tips to Keep Your Phone's Encrypted Messages Encrypted
End-to-end encryption by default is quickly becoming the new standard for any communications app that claims to care about the privacy of those who use it.
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New Maps Make Aftershocks Look Scarier Than the Main Quake
Aftershocks continue shaking the cities of Kumamoto, Japan and Muisne, Ecuador, almost a week after earthquakes rocked the two cities, frightening residents still...
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Hyper Vision
There is something special happening in a generic office park in an uninspiring suburb near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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Mit's Teaching AI How to Help Stop Cyberattacks
Finding evidence that someone compromised your cyber defenses is a grind.
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You Want to Build an Empire Like Google's? This Is Your Os
Google called it Borg, and for many years, it was among the company's best-kept secrets.
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A Scheme to Encrypt the Entire Web Is Actually Working
Apple's move to encrypt your iPhone and WhatsApp's rollout of end-to-end encrypted messaging have generated plenty of privacy applause and law enforcement controversy...
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Why Our Crazy-Smart AI Still Sucks at Transcribing Speech
The task of providing accurate transcriptions of long blocks of human conversation remains beyond the abilities of even today's most advanced software.
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IBM Wants to Implant Fake Brains in Real Brains to Prevent Seizures
Talk about neural networking.
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Forget Apple vs. the Fbi: Whatsapp Just Switched on Encryption For a Billion People
For most of the past six weeks, the biggest story out of Silicon Valley was Apple's battle with the FBI over a federal order to unlock the iPhone of a mass shooter...
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Why Do the Feds sually Try to nlock Phones? It's Drugs, Not Terrorism
Until the FBI backed down from its battle with Apple over accessing the iPhone 5c of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, it seemed the agency had chosen...
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The Apple-Fbi Battle Is Over, But the New Crypto Wars Have Just Begun
Apple's standoff with the FBI unfolded over the course of several weeks, but ended in a matter of days.
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Why Isis Is Winning the Social Media War
Early last December, two days after Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik murdered 14 people at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, the married couple’s landlord...
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It's Your Fault Microsoft's Teen AI Turned Into Such a Jerk
Microsoft unveiled a new online chatbot on Twitter but took it offline the same day because Twitter users coaxed it into regurgitating offensive language.
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A Computer With a Great Eye Is About to Transform Botany
Pennsylvania State University paleobotanist Peter Wilf and colleagues have developed new software for identifying families of leaves.
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