Human and Artificial Intelligence May Be Equally Impossible to Understand
Despite new biology-like tools, some insist interpretation is impossible.

September 2, 2016 at 04:06AM
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How Your Smartphone Light Sensor Could Help Websites Track You
Thanks to the phone’s light sensor, advertisers, online trackers and perhaps even law enforcement might soon have a chance to use that feature to track and profile you, according to a privacy and security researcher who warned of the potential dangers posed by ambient light sensors.

September 1, 2016 at 06:07PM
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Blame Your Lousy Internet on Poles – Backchannel
The war over high-speed access is fought on 40-foot-high wooden sticks.

September 1, 2016 at 10:55AM
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Explosion rocks SpaceX launch site in Florida during test
NASA says SpaceX was conducting a test firing of its unmanned rocket when the blast occurred Thursday morning. The test, considered routine, was in advance of a planned Saturday launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

September 1, 2016 at 08:40AM
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When Will the Last Ever Line of Code Be Written?
Any code written must be maintained, which is even more costly than writing it in the first place. New code is cheaper than old code, but new code also grows up to be old code. Less now is less later.

August 31, 2016 at 07:36PM
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This program can mimic your handwriting with shocking accuracy—what could go wrong?
This machine can write checks with your signature, and that’s just the start.

August 31, 2016 at 05:04PM
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The Exemption Packet
The future is often best depicted in its most mundane nature. Here, a series of fictional documents depicting a girl who wants to be exempt from routine human augmentation.

August 31, 2016 at 05:04PM
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You can now download free books on the subway timed to your commute
For the next eight weeks, if you forget to bring a book on your morning commute then you’re not out of luck.

August 31, 2016 at 02:48PM
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Perpetual Motion Machines
Rather than robot drivers piloting cars that humans might otherwise be driving, these new technologies may transport us in an entirely different way that dispenses with accommodating human capabilities.

August 31, 2016 at 02:48PM
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The New Snowden Movie is the Best PR He’ll Ever Get
The upcoming movie “Snowden” will paint the man President Obama once called some “29-year-old hacker,” as a hero who exposed the great injustices and overreach of the global surveillance state.

August 31, 2016 at 12:46PM
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