Could machines have become self-aware without our kn…
Our machines could become self-aware without our knowing it. We need a better way to define and test for consciousness.

February 25, 2016 at 07:28PM
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Apple Responds to FBI: You Have No Authority to Force Us to Help You
The dismissal drives home the company’s point that this is not a case for the courts to decide, because of the alarming precedent it could set.

February 25, 2016 at 03:07PM
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Journalist Gets Hacked While Writing Apple-FBI Story
“I don’t really need to worry about online privacy, I’ve got nothing to hide. And who would want to know what I’m up to, anyway?” USA Today’s Steven Petrow typed as he was being hacked.

February 25, 2016 at 10:50AM
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Here’s How Electric Cars Will Cause the Next Oil Crisis
With all good technologies, there comes a time when buying the alternative no longer makes sense. It’s looking like the 2020s will be the decade of the electric car.

February 25, 2016 at 10:17AM
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Why The CIA Likes, And Dislikes, Social Media
Social networks have changed the world, but they make things very complicated for the CIA. Facebook, Twitter and other services give the spy agency enormous amounts of new information about people of interest around the world, but they also open up huge new vulnerabilities.

February 25, 2016 at 08:41AM
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Like This So I Know I’m Real
Despite the recent changes at Facebook, the “like” has very little to do with the actual emotional content of a response. It’s a simple nod in your direction. But it also serves as the ultimate validating gesture. If social media amounts to an existential assertion, it’s left incomplete until at least one “like” enters the picture.

February 25, 2016 at 01:54AM
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Is your boss reading your email and monitoring your Internet use?
We all know our work computers aren’t private — but we use them as if they were.

February 25, 2016 at 12:54AM
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Should Self-Driving Cars Have Drivers Ready To Take Over?
California’s Department of Motor Vehicles proposed that self-driving cars should have a licensed driver inside. It may disrupt the dream of driverless cars, but it’s also seen as a step for safety.

February 24, 2016 at 07:52PM
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Play nice! How the internet is trying to design out toxic behaviour
Online abuse can be cruel — but for some tech companies it is an existential threat. Can giants such as Facebook use behavioural psychology and persuasive design to tame the trolls?

February 24, 2016 at 06:59PM
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Exclusive: Apple CEO Tim Cook Says iPhone-Cracking Software ‘Equivalent of Cancer’
In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Apple CEO Tim Cook told “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir that what the US government was asking of the tech giant — to essentially create software enabling the FBI to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California, shooters.

February 24, 2016 at 06:46PM
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