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This Company Is Helping Build China's Panopticon. It Won't Stop There
The lobby of SenseTime's Beijing office makes you feel a bit like you've stumbled into a Philip K. Dick novel.
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Largest Overhaul of Scientific Units Since the French Revolution Wins Approval
In the biggest overhaul of the international system of units since 1875, countries have voted to redefine four basic units of measurement—the ampere, the kilogram...
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Spectre, Meltdown Researchers Unveil 7 More Speculative Execution Attacks
Systematic analysis reveals a range of new issues and a need for new mitigations.
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Say Au Revoir to that Hunk of Metal in France that Has Defined the Kilogram
The world is about to say au revoir to Le Grand K, a cylinder of platinum and iridium that has long reigned over the world's system of weight measurement.
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Social Media Companies Grapple with New Forms of Political Misinformation
Social media companies are struggling to contain new forms of political misinformation on their platforms that bubbled up during this year's midterm elections. ...
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Flaws in Self-Encrypting SSDs Let Attackers Bypass Disk Encryption
Researchers have found vulnerabilities in some solid-state drives that allow hackers to circumvent encryption and access local data without knowing the password...
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Intel CPUs Impacted by New PortSmash Side-Channel Vulnerability
Researchers discovered a new vulnerability in Intel processors that can allow attackers to leak encrypted data from the internal process of a central processing...
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Amazon Go Has a Real Rival in Japan
A company in Japan has developed an automated system that could rival Amazon Go in terms of quickly providing consumers with products.
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Using Wi-Fi to 'See' Behind Closed Doors Is Easier than Anyone Thought
Researchers have developed a technique to see through walls using ambient Wi-Fi signals and an ordinary smartphone.
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At China’s Internet Conference, a Darker Side of Tech Emerges
Discussion topics included counterterrorism, data breaches, and surveillance.
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Google in China: When 'Don't Be Evil' Met the Great Firewall
If you're planning on moving to China anytime soon, here's a piece of advice: Get yourself a WeChat account.
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In the Age of A.I., Is Seeing Still Believing?
In 2011, Hany Farid, a photo-forensics expert, received an e-mail from a bereaved father.
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Stanford Researchers Develop New Data Privacy Technique
A new system for aggregating data usage reports emphasizes maintaining personal privacy.
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Chinese 'Gait Recognition' Tech IDs People by How They Walk
Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: "gait recognition" software that uses people's body shapes and how they walk to identify them,...
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Waymo Gets Green Light for Robot Cars in California; No Humans Needed
The California Department of Motor Vehicles has granted a permit to Waymo to test fully autonomous cars with no human driver on public roads.
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FDA Not Doing Enough to Prevent Medical Device Hacking, HHS Report Says
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is not sufficiently protecting medical devices from being hacked, according to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...
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Another Use for AI: Finding Millions of Unregistered Voters
IBM's Jeff Jonas has for several years used his artificial intelligence software for a multistate project to identify eligible voters and purge voter rolls of inaccuracies...
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The New Face of Law Enforcement
Facial recognition and augmented reality are changing the way law enforcement agencies investigate crime, but there are important privacy issues to consider.
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