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Spies in Our Pockets
Electronic eavesdropping is becoming ever more nefarious in the age of smartphones and digital devices.
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Wanna Stop Distracted Driving? Make Cars That Watch Their Humans
Everyone knows that distracted driving is a problem, but it tends to fall in the "other people/not me" category of personal risk assessment among drivers.
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Brain-Machine Interface Isn't Sci-Fi Anymore
Thomas Reardon puts a terrycloth stretch band with microchips and electrodes woven into the fabric—a steampunk version of jewelry—on each of his forearms. ...
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The Astonishing Engineering Behind America's Latest, Greatest Supercomputer
When the Summit supercomputer opens for business next year, it will be the United States' most powerful supercomputer, and perhaps the most powerful in the world...
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For Superpowers, Artificial Intelligence Fuels New Global Arms Race
For many Russian students, the academic year started last Friday with tips on planetary domination from President Vladimir Putin.
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How Apple Finally Made Siri Sound More Human
The first time Alex Acero saw Her, he watched it like a normal person.
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Why John Deere Just Spent $305 Million on a Lettuce-Farming Robot
Tractor giant John Deere just spent $305 million to acquire Blue River Technology, a startup that makes robots capable of identifying unwanted plants and shooting...
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Google's New Street View Cameras Will Help Algorithms Index the Real World
Steve Silverman helped build cameras for two NASA rovers that went to Mars.
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What James Damore Got Wrong About Gender Bias in Computer Science
Several experts rebut a former Google employee's conceit that innate biological differences underlie female software engineers' underrepresentation in the tech...
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The Quest to Perfect the Universal Language of Science
For millennia, humans have turned to the sky to tell time.
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Even Artificial Neural Networks Can Have Exploitable 'Backdoors'
Early in August, NYU professor Siddharth Garg checked for traffic, and put a yellow Post-it onto a stop sign outside the Brooklyn building in which he works.
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Watch Hackers Hijack Three Robots for Spying and Espionage
The entire corpus of science fiction has trained humanity to fear the day when helpful household and industrial robots turn against it, in a Skynet-style uprising...
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Google's New AI Learns by Baking Tasty Machine Learning Cookies
Google Vizier is an artificial intelligence system that automatically tunes other artificial intelligence programs.
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Quantum Internet Is 13 Years Away. Wait, What's Quantum Internet?
Although some scientists expect a "quantum Internet" to exist in 13 years, its exact function remains vague due to the nascent stage of the technology.
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Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of DNA
When biologists synthesize DNA, they take pains not to create or spread a dangerous stretch of genetic code that could be used to create a toxin or, worse, an infectious...
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To Fix Voting Machines, Hackers Tear Them Apart
The toughest thing to convey to newcomers at the DefCon Voting Village in Las Vegas this weekend? Just how far they could go with hacking voting machines set up...
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The Rise of AI Is Forcing Google and Microsoft to Become Chipmakers
By now our future is clear: We are to be cared for, entertained, and monetized by artificial intelligence.
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New NASA Tech Kills Trespassing Drones Without Touching Them
In the most nightmarish drone scenarios, one of the little whirlybirds flies into an airliner, or wanders into military airspace, or swoops down on the White House...
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Want a Robot that Can Really Feel? Give It Whiskers
Among the many reasons humans are bizarre among mammals (the dearth of body hair, the bipedalism, the fact that someone invented the turducken) is a sad shortcoming...
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To End Distracted Driving, MIT Figures Out How People Really Drive
Researchers are producing accurate models of people's behavior in cars, in order to shape that behavior to preserve safety.
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