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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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Data Mining Reveals How News Coverage Varies Around the World
Researchers have analyzed news agendas in different parts of the world to see how the coverage reflects actual international events.
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Open Surveillance
A new encrypted search system could enable law enforcement officials to collect data more openly without compromising investigations.
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Should Industrial Robots Be Able to Hurt Their Human Coworkers?
How much should a robot be allowed to hurt its coworkers?
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What It Will Take For Computers to Be Conscious
Christof Koch says it is possible people will some day create conscious machines, but they may not look as expected.
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What It Will Take For Computers to Be Conscious
Is a worm conscious? How about a bumblebee? Does a computer that can play chess "feel" anything?
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Obama's Brain Project Backs Neurotechnology
The White House said that President Obama's BRAIN Initiative is generating interest from companies and philanthropies in a sign of what it calls a wider partnership...
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The Hidden World of Facebook "like Farms"
A new study systematically investigated the nature of so-called Facebook "like farms," services which will direct Facebook Likes to a given Facebook page for a...
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The Hidden World of Facebook 'like Farms'
Facebook has become the advertising outlet of choice for many of the world’s businesses and companies.
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Fingerprinting Infants Helps Track Vaccinations in Developing Countries
Developing countries could be able to track pediatric vaccinations with greater accuracy using a fingerprint-scanning system.
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In Praise of Efficient Price Gouging
In the four years since the car service Uber launched, it has been beset by criticism from myriad groups, including city officials annoyed by its sometimes cavalier...
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A Chinese Internet Giant Starts to Dream
Punk bands from Blondie to the Ramones once played in Broadway Studios, an age-worn 95-year-old neoclassical building surrounded by strip clubs in San Francisco’s...
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Technology Can Make Lawful Surveillance Both Open and Effective
New technology could enable law enforcement to identify people whose actions justify investigation and demonstrate probable cause via an authorized electronic...
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Malware Traffic Spikes Preceded Russian and Israeli Conflicts
A study of malware operating on corporate and government networks suggests that the communication patterns of these programs could warn of major conflicts.
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How Yahoo Research Labs Studies Culture as a Formal Computational Concept
Yahoo Labs researchers aim to achieve a truly computational understanding of human society by analyzing the links that form on social networks.
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The Growing Threat of Network-Based Steganography
Researchers have uncovered Duqu, an unusual form of steganography-based malware that embeds itself in Microsoft Windows machines.
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How Can a Civilian Plane Accidentally Be Shot Down?
Pro-Russian separatists may have shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine on Thursday because they mistook the civilian plane for something else...
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Self-Assembly Shows Promise for Extending Moore's Law
These are challenging times for computer chip engineers.
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A Speech Synthesizer Direct to the Brain
Could a person who is paralyzed and unable to speak, like physicist Stephen Hawking, use a brain implant to carry on a conversation?
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