No Motor(ized) Bikes: Tour De France Unveils New Plan To Catch Cheats
The bid to keep professional cycling clean will rely on techniques developed by a large French government agency that also conducts nuclear research.

June 29, 2016 at 06:57AM
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Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York
Free service DoNotPay helped appeal over $4m in parking fines in just 21 months, but it’s just the tip of the legal AI iceberg for its 19-year-old creator.

June 29, 2016 at 01:15AM
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Exclusive: Google, Facebook quietly move toward automatic blocking of extremist videos
Some of the web’s biggest destinations for watching videos have quietly started using automation to remove extremist content from their sites, according to two people familiar with the process.

June 28, 2016 at 11:09PM
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Snapchat users could get paid for their content someday
According to a patent application published last week, Snapchat has considered a “revenue-sharing” scenario, in which brands would pay users for their content.

June 28, 2016 at 07:30PM
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You Just Stole $50 Million In Cryptocurrency
Will the hacker or hackers behind a huge heist be able to spend their bounty?

June 28, 2016 at 07:30PM
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A.I. Downs Expert Human Fighter Pilot In Dogfight Simulation
In a series of flight combat simulations, the AI successfully evaded retired US Air Force Colonel Gene “Geno” Lee, and shot him down every time.

June 28, 2016 at 03:45PM
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Why a Coding Bootcamp Probably Isn’t Right for You
Coding bootcamps have been sold as a fast way to gain access to the comfy world of tech jobs flooding the job market, but do they really live up to the hype?

June 28, 2016 at 02:40PM
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NASA Test-Fires World’s Most Powerful Megarocket Booster Which Will Blast Astronauts To Mars
Several of these boosters will be used on the space agency’s next big rocket, the Space Launch System, which will help take astronauts into deep space.

June 28, 2016 at 02:40PM
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How Do Snapchat’s Filters Work?
Face recognition is nothing new. But to do it in real-time with such precision — now that’s something.

June 28, 2016 at 12:46PM
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Clever Attack Uses the Sound of a Computer’s Fan to Steal Data
Although the technique can only be used to steal a limited amount of data, it’s sufficient to siphon encryption keys and lists of usernames and passwords, as well as small amounts of keylogging histories and documents, from more than two dozen feet away.

June 28, 2016 at 12:43PM
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