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Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match
Past the end of a remote mountain road, down a rutted dirt track, in a concrete house that lacked running water but bristled with smartphones, 13 members of an...
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A Tough Task for Facebook: European-Type Privacy for All
Next month, a comprehensive new data protection law goes into effect in the European Union, placing greater requirements on how companies like Facebook and Google...
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Justice Dept. Revives Push to Mandate a Way to nlock Phones
Federal law enforcement officials are renewing a push for a legal mandate that tech companies build tools into smartphones and other devices that would allow access...
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The New .S.-China Rivalry: A Technology Race
As the United States and China look to protect their national security needs and economic interests, the fight between the two financial superpowers is increasingly...
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It’s True: False News Spreads Faster and Wider. And Humans Are to Blame.
What if the scourge of false news on the internet is not the result of Russian operatives or partisan zealots or computer-controlled bots? What if the main problem...
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After Florida School Shooting, Russian 'Bot' Army Pounced
One hour after news broke about the school shooting in Florida last week, Twitter accounts suspected of having links to Russia released hundreds of posts taking...
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Tech Giants Brace For Europe's New Data Privacy Rule
Over the past two months, Google has started letting people around the world choose what data they want to share with its various products, including Gmail and...
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Google Missed Out on China. Can It Flourish in India?
Every month, about four million more Indians get online. They include people like Manju, a 35-year-old seamstress in this city of ancient palaces, who got her first...
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Five Technologies That Will Rock Your World
After the Russian hacking of the 2016 election, many people worry that technology has gone too far.
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How Fiction Becomes Fact on Social Media
Hours after the Las Vegas massacre, Travis McKinney's Facebook feed was hit with a scattershot of conspiracy theories.
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Justices to Decide on Forcing Technology Firms to Provide Data Held Abroad
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether federal prosecutors can force technology companies to turn over data stored outside the United States.
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How the Internet Kept Humming During 2 Hurricanes
At one node of the industrial backbone that keeps the internet running, employees sheltered from the worst of Hurricane Irma in a stairwell of a seven-story building...
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Chips Off the Old block: Computers Are Taking Design Cues from Human Brains
We expect a lot from our computers these days. They should talk to us, recognize everything from faces to flowers, and maybe soon do the driving.
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The Fake Americans Russia Created to Influence the Election
Sometimes an international offensive begins with a few shots that draw little notice.
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The Smartphone's Future: It's All About the Camera
We all know the drill. For the last decade, smartphones have gotten thinner and faster and thinner and faster and, well, you get the picture.
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A Game You Can Control With Your Mind
When you pull the headset over your eyes and the game begins, you are transported to a tiny room with white walls.
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A Hunt For Ways to Combat Online Radicalization
Law enforcement officials, technology companies and lawmakers have long tried to limit what they call the "radicalization" of young people over the internet.
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Cars Suck p Data About You. Where Does It All Go?
Cars have become rolling listening posts. They can track phone calls and texts, log queries to websites, record what radio stations you listen to—even tell you...
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As Elites Switch to Texting, Watchdogs Fear Loss of Transparency
In a bygone analog era, lawmakers and corporate chiefs traveled great distances to swap secrets, to the smoke-filled back rooms of the World Economic Forum in Davos...
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