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At A Pair Of Hackers' Conventions, The Focus Is On Phones
Thousands of hackers have headed to Las Vegas for two conferences: Black Hat and Defcon. Much of the talk at the conferences has been devoted to security flaws in consumer devices, like cellphones.
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AI is helping individual scientists, study suggests — but not science
Artificial intelligence is helping researchers advance their careers and drill deeper into specific questions, but it is not necessarily benefiting science on the whole.
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In A Divided San Francisco, Private Tech Buses Drive Tension
Some of the most heated protests in San Francisco have been over big, sleek buses — private shuttles that Silicon Valley tech companies like Google and Facebook use to get their city-living employees to work. They've become a symbol of the city's changing socioeconomic landscape.
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U.S. Supreme Court hands social media companies a major victory
The court unanimously sided with Twitter in a case brought by plaintiffs who said it aided and abetted terrorism. Based on its opinion, it sent a related case involving Google back to lower courts.
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In 'Googleplex,' Plato Makes A Bid For Continuing Importance
In her new book, novelist and philosopher, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, drops Plato into modern situations and imagines what he'd think of this century's existential dilemmas.
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Protesters occupy Microsoft office as company reviews its work with Israel's military
Current and former Microsoft employees were among those arrested. Microsoft has said it is reviewing a report that Israel has used its platform to facilitate attacks on Palestinian targets.
This Week's Air Quality Is Worst On Record For San Francisco Bay Area
As wildfires spread through Northern California counties, clouds of smoke and ash are spreading, too, far beyond the flames. Air quality officials have a database that's searchable by ZIP code.
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A 'Chemical Haze' Stole Across A British Beach — And No One Knows What It Was
A "plume of gas" rolled ashore in England on Sunday. By the time it dissipated, 150 people were being treated for burning eyes and vomiting. But one day later, answers are still hard to find.
A Short Dive Through Summer History In The Adirondacks
There's a mountain lake with a wild shore and a log mansion built way back in the gilded age tucked away in New York's Adirondack Mountains.
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In Selma, A 'Final Crossing' For John Lewis Across The Edmund Pettus Bridge
In 1965, John Lewis was nearly killed as he led a group of protesters across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to protest racial discrimination in voting. On Sunday, his body crossed that bridge one last time.
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