Who Owns Your Face?
Advertising companies, tech giants, data collectors and the federal government, it turns out.

March 26, 2017 at 06:36AM
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The Hidden Power of Stack Overflow: How a Website You’ve Never Heard of Is Holding Up the Web
How a site for coders dominates Google and thus, the world.

March 26, 2017 at 06:36AM
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The Original Machine Learning
Teaching computers to read was one of the 20th century’s great challenges. At first, the secret to optical character recognition was purpose-built type.

March 26, 2017 at 05:18AM
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What An A.I. Thinks Of Taylor Swift, Tim Cook, And Donald Trump
An artificial intelligence system thinks Donald Trump is “relaxed” and “typically slow to anger,” so there’s probably still a few kinks that need to be worked out.

March 25, 2017 at 03:33AM
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Spring cleaning for your computer
Blow away those digital cobwebs

March 24, 2017 at 03:15PM
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Google’s Plan to Engineer the Next Silicon Valleys
The tech giant is quietly grooming companies overseas in a strategic move to bring the next billion online.

March 24, 2017 at 02:15PM
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Lightpainting With A Homemade Pixelstick Image Processing Rig
With minimal elbow grease and coding knowledge, this Arduino set-up creates mesmerizing images in long exposure.

March 24, 2017 at 02:08PM
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The Battle To Build Guns That Can Fire Only In The Hands Of Their Owners
America has a love affair with firearms and that’s not going to change anytime soon, but could there be a technological solution to gun violence?

March 24, 2017 at 01:10PM
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Harvard Develops a Cheap Smartphone Test for Male Fertility
The home testing kit for male fertility would just need your smartphone and semen sample.

March 24, 2017 at 08:00AM
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Congress is trying to figure out what to do with the International Space Station after 2024
What’s the best way to transition the lab to the private sector?

March 24, 2017 at 02:27AM
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