Why the government shouldn’t mess with encryption

There’s a huge debate underway over governments’ demand for companies to provide “backdoors” to communications and devices protected by encryption. This capability would grant law enforcement agencies their own “master keys” capable of cracking private encrypted communications. In other words, it would ultimately help them to better spy on people.

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‘The Division’ Is Two Different Games Awkwardly Stapled Together

After around two days of play (16 hours total), I’m about halfway through The Division. I’m talking about standard story mode, of course, as you could seemingly play the Dark Zone forever, and I’m sure I will be encouraged to replay many challenge missions indefinitely, as I head into the endgame. But right now I have “cleared” the western half of the map, and am level 15, halfway to the cap of 30. I’m about to hook under the Dark Zone and head to the other side, where more dangers lurk.

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Robust Weibo Growth Drives Q4 Results For Sina

Sina reported a 21% annual increase in net revenues to $256 million in Q4’15. Correspondingly, full year revenues were up by 15% year over year to $881 million. Growth was largely driven by the company’s social media platform Weibo, which reported nearly 42-43% growth in revenues in Q4 and through the year to $149 million and $478 million, respectively. The tables below show a split of Sina’s top line by business segments and revenue streams.

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Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A Special Report, Pt. 2


Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A Special Report, Pt. 2
The imminent arrival of self-driving cars and autonomous robots brings up serious questions about how much control of our lives do we want to give over to machines — and to the corporations that build and operate them.

March 9, 2016 at 12:19PM
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