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Microsoft Thinks Machines Can Learn to Converse By Making Chat a Game
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Microsoft Thinks Machines Can Learn to Converse By Making Chat a Game

Microsoft is buying a deep learning startup based in Montreal, a global hub for deep learning research.

Darpa's Off-Roaders Ditch Windows For a Digital World View
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Darpa's Off-Roaders Ditch Windows For a Digital World View

Autonomous warriors may dominate the battlefield of tomorrow, but even those that still require human flesh will take on a robotic sheen. That shift could start...

The Year Encryption Won
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The Year Encryption Won

Between the revelations of mega-hacks of Yahoo and others, Russia's meddling in the US electoral system, and the recent spike in ransomware, it's easy to look at...

Hacker Lexicon: What Is Perfect Forward Secrecy?
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Hacker Lexicon: What Is Perfect Forward Secrecy?

Encryption keeps your secrets, until it doesn't.

Google's Hand-Fed AI Now Gives Answers, Not Just Search Results
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Google's Hand-Fed AI Now Gives Answers, Not Just Search Results

Ask the Google search app "What is the fastest bird on Earth?," and it will tell you.

How Humans Can Force the Machines to Play Fair
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How Humans Can Force the Machines to Play Fair

Cynthia Dwork is best known for inventing "differential privacy," a set of techniques that safeguard the privacy of individuals in a large database.

Great. Now Even Your Headphones Can Spy on You
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Great. Now Even Your Headphones Can Spy on You

Cautious computer users put a piece of tape over their webcam.

Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Are Remaking Themselves Around AI
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Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Are Remaking Themselves Around AI

Fei-Fei Li is a big deal in the world of AI. As the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Vision labs at Stanford University, she oversaw the creation of...

Vr Is Totally Changing How Architects Dream ­p Buildings
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Vr Is Totally Changing How Architects Dream ­p Buildings

From the Lower Manhattan offices of New York architecture firm SHoP, you can explore buildings around the world—including ones that don't yet exist.

The Ocean's Robots May Soon Enjoy High-Speed Internet
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The Ocean's Robots May Soon Enjoy High-Speed Internet

A wireless communications network could soon enable autonomous underwater instruments to collect information, communicate, and transfer data at Internet speeds,

How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn't Know Were Tracking You
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How to Block the Ultrasonic Signals You Didn't Know Were Tracking You

Dystopian corporte surveillance threats today come at us from all directions. Companies offer "always-on" devices that listen for our voice commands, and marketers...

Inside Darpa's Plan to Make Old Aircraft Autonomous With Robot Arms
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Inside Darpa's Plan to Make Old Aircraft Autonomous With Robot Arms

There's a reason Tesla and its competitors use the term "autopilot" for their semi-autonomous cars: Aviation is way ahead of the auto industry when it comes to...

Meet Noto, Google's Free Font For More Than 800 Language
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Meet Noto, Google's Free Font For More Than 800 Language

Something funny happens when your computer or phone can’t display a font: A blank rectangular box pops up in place of the missing glyph.

How to Steal an AI
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How to Steal an AI

In the burgeoning field of computer science known as machine learning, engineers often refer to the artificial intelligences they create as "black box" systems:...

Google's Internet-Beaming Balloon Gets a New Pilot: AI
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Google's Internet-Beaming Balloon Gets a New Pilot: AI

Google's Project Loon plans to use balloons to beam the Internet from the stratosphere down to people on Earth where access is otherwise unavailable.  

Google's Internet-Beaming Balloon Gets a New Pilot: AI
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Google's Internet-Beaming Balloon Gets a New Pilot: AI

This summer, the Google X lab launched a balloon into the stratosphere over Peru, and it stayed there for 98 days.

Tech Giants Team ­p to Fix Typography's Biggest Problem
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Tech Giants Team ­p to Fix Typography's Biggest Problem

Fonts have a serious image problem.

Inside Google's Internet Justice League and Its AI-Powered War on Trolls
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Inside Google's Internet Justice League and Its AI-Powered War on Trolls

Online forums and social media platforms are havens for trolls and bullies who launch campaigns of harassment can lead to the self-censorship of the people they...

How Police Trace Cellphones in Ieds Like the Ones in Nyc
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How Police Trace Cellphones in Ieds Like the Ones in Nyc

A cellphone makes a convenient detonator for an improvised explosive device. But it's also one of the most conveniently trackable devices under the eye of American...

How the Fbi Could Have Hacked the San Bernardino Shooter's Iphone
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How the Fbi Could Have Hacked the San Bernardino Shooter's Iphone

More than six months have passed since the FBI first ordered Apple to help the agency bypass the encryption on the iPhone 5c of Rizwan Syed Farook, an ISIS supporter...
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