How Big Is SoftBank Really?
Softbank is the largest producer of smartphone chips and the owner of Boston Dynamics, but is this organization truly positioned to change the world?

May 29, 2018 at 11:39AM
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Why It’s Taking So Darn Long For Self-Driving Cars To Become A Reality
Perception and prediction are two of the things that have to be tackled for autonomous cars to be entirely safe to drive.

May 29, 2018 at 10:20AM
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Technology is Not a Drug: Debunking the Biggest Myths About ‘Technology Addiction’
There’s a tiny kernel of truth to our concerns, but the available evidence suggests that claims of a crisis are entirely unwarranted.

May 29, 2018 at 08:02AM
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The first cyberattack took place nearly 200 years ago in France
France created a national mechanical telegraph system in the 1790s; in 1834, a pair of crooked bankers named François and Joseph Blanc launched the first cyberattack, poisoning the data that went over the system in order to get a trading advantage in the bond market.

May 28, 2018 at 02:51PM
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How WIRED Lost $100,000 in Bitcoin
We mined roughly 13 bitcoins and then ripped up our private key. We were stupid — but not alone.

May 28, 2018 at 11:48AM
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Intel accused of age discrimination
US federal investigators are looking into Intel’s layoffs of 12,000 employees since 2016.

May 28, 2018 at 08:36AM
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What Nokia Phones and a German Soccer Team Have in Common
The strange and winding saga that starts with bad soccer players.

May 27, 2018 at 05:10PM
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NASA Is Basically Trying To Get Hacked
Turns out NASA’s version of information security involves just googling stuff.

May 27, 2018 at 08:06AM
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How a YouTube video brought an extinct bird back from the dead
Through archives and digital technologies, the bird has been reanimated from extinction as a newly created species — one defined by its original vocal evocation, remixed by humans and partially composed of new bits of digital data.

May 26, 2018 at 08:09PM
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What to Think About Before Buying a Used Smartphone
There are plenty of good, slightly older, used smartphones out there, and the used phone market has been growing right along with the overall smartphone market.

May 26, 2018 at 08:03AM
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