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After Visa Delays, Afghan Girls' Robotics Team Arrives in D.c. For Global Competition
U.S. President Donald J. Trump had to intervene to allow a team of teenage Afghani girls trying to enter the FIRST Global Robotics Challenge to enter the U.S.
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How Video Games Helped Give S the Self-Driving Car
Self-driving cars. They're the future of transportation—and they're getting smarter all the time.
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Here's What You Need to Know About the Google E.u. Fine
The European Union's head of antitrust enforcement announced a record $2.7 billion fine against Google on Tuesday, accusing the search engine for illegally favoring...
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How a Supreme Court Ruling on Printer Cartridges Changes What It Means to Buy Almost Anything
Last week, the Supreme Court dealt a major blow to corporations that try to use patent law as a weapon against other firms, saying that companies can only be sued...
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FCC Votes to Start Rolling Back Landmark Net Neutrality Rules
The Republican-led Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to begin undoing a key decision from the Obama era that could relax regulations on Internet...
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Your Face Can Get You More Than Just Toilet Paper in China
Now a number of female students at one of the country's top universities can use their face to open doors, according to news reports.
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Can Amazon Echo Help Solve a Murder? Police Will Soon Find Out.
A 2015 Arkansas murder case that had raised privacy questions surrounding "always-on" electronic home devices took a step forward last week after Amazon agreed...
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Wikileaks: The CIA Is Using Popular Tvs, Smartphones and Cars to Spy on Their Owners
The latest revelations about U.S. government's powerful hacking tools potentially takes surveillance right into the homes and hip pockets of billions of users worldwide...
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How Hard Is It to Get an Intelligence Wiretap? Pretty Hard.
Wiretaps on Americans in foreign intelligence investigations are not easy to get. And if you're a candidate for president, it's even harder.
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Crispr Pioneer Muses About Long Journey from China to Pinnacle of American Science
Feng Zhang occupies a corner office on the 10th floor of the gleaming, modern biotechnology palace called the Broad Institute.
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How We Could Close Tech's Gender Gap in a Decade
The inaugural Girls Who Code Governor's Summit in California last week emphasized solving the U.S. technology industry's lack of gender parity by developing standards...
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Trump Questions Quest For Cybersecurity: 'no Computer Is Safe'
President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly questioned whether critical computer networks can ever be protected from intruders, alarming cybersecurity experts who...
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The Gender Gap in Computer Science Is Hurting .s. Businesses
Women's share of the computer science workforce continues to fall despite efforts to expand computing education for children and young adults, according to research...
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Can Alexa Help Solve a Murder? Police Think So—But Amazon Won't Give p Her Data.
When police responded to a home in Bentonville, Ark., one Sunday morning last November, they discovered Victor Collins's dead body in the backyard.
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Scientists Are Frantically Copying U.S. Climate Data, Fearing It Might Vanish Under Trump
Alarmed that decades of crucial climate measurements could vanish under a hostile Trump administration, scientists have begun a feverish attempt to copy reams of...
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Pizzagate: From Rumor, to Hashtag, to Gunfire in D.c.
What was finally real was Edgar Welch, driving from North Carolina to Washington to rescue sexually abused children he believed were hidden in mysterious tunnels...
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Why a Hacker Is Giving Away a Special Code That Turns Cars Into Self-Driving Machines
The founder of startup Comma.ai has released a free software kit in an effort to accelerate autonomous vehicle technology without running afoul of regulators.
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Erich Bloch, IBM Pioneer Who Later Led National Science Foundation, Dies at 91
Bloch was the first U.S. National Science Foundation director to come from a business rather than academic background, and the first without a doctoral degree. ...
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China's Plan to Organize Its Society Relies on 'big Data' to Rate Everyone
Imagine a world where an authoritarian government monitors everything you do, amasses huge amounts of data on almost every interaction you make, and awards you...
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