"China’s military plans to produce nearly 42,000 land-based and sea-based unmanned weapons and sensor platforms as part of its continuing, large-scale military buildup, the Pentagon’s annual report on …
DARPA creating software that won’t need upgrades for a century
"Software upgrades and outdated applications that don't work on new platforms are just a fact of life for people who use computers and other devices. DARPA, however, wants to change that by making …
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Artificial Intelligence Isn’t a Threat—Yet
"A more immediate concern is that a machine doesn’t have to be superintelligent to do a lot of damage, if it is sufficiently empowered. Stock market flash crashes are one example: Hundreds of millions …
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AWS Wants To Put Machine Learning In Reach Of Any Developer
"The Amazon Machine Learning service is designed to give developers without machine learning background the tools to build smart, data-driven applications that can not only analyze what’s happening in …
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BlackBerry Messenger Plays a Starring Role in a Brazil Corruption Scandal
"Brazilian prosecutors have relied heavily on confessions from company insiders to expose an alleged graft ring at Petróleo Brasileiro. But there was another crucial ingredient: thousands of instant …
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Cellphones for Women in Developing Nations Aid Ascent From Poverty
"Here is what life is like for a woman with no bank account in a developing country. She keeps her savings hidden — in pots, under mattresses, in fields. She constantly worries about thieves. She may …
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Turkey blocks Twitter, YouTube over hostage photos
"A Turkish court has ordered blocks on Twitter and YouTube for sharing photos of a hostage taken during an armed siege last week. The blocks have been imposed because images of a deadly siege were …
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How Microsoft’s using big data to predict traffic jams up to an hour in advance
"The Traffic Prediction Project is setting out to crunch all traffic data, including historical numbers where available, from transport departments, road cameras, Microsoft’s Bing traffic maps, and …
Terrorism Finance Trackers Worry ISIS Already Using Bitcoin
"At a recent forum that brought together government officials and bitcoin entrepreneurs to discuss the future of the cryptocurrency, paeans to the protocol’s efficiency mingled with law enforcement’s …
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Google’s Vint Cerf warns of ‘digital Dark Age’
"Vint Cerf, a 'father of the internet', says he is worried that all the images and documents we have been saving on computers will eventually be lost. Currently a Google vice-president, he believes …
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