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Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 20:52:13 +0000
Former FBI director James Comey’s Senate testimony did not disappoint—and raised as many questions as it answered.
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Credit to Author: Elizabeth Stinson| Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 18:08:11 +0000
A new exhibition in New York puts the surveillance state on display.
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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 03:06:00 -0700
As the blockchain continues to mature and find adoption in areas other than cryptocurrency, ERP vendors are working to integrate the distributed ledger technology as a trackable, immutable record for everything from shipping manifests and supply chains to equipment maintenance and dispute-resolution systems.
“This is very real and something we’re aggressively excited about,” said Brigid McDermott, vice president of Blockchain Business Development at IBM. “What blockchain does is provide a trust system of record between disparate companies.”
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Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 09:33:00 -0700
Android’s Smart Lock feature is spectacular — that is, when it actually works.
Smart Lock has been around since 2014’s Android 5.0 era. The basic idea behind it is to make securing your smartphone less inconvenient, thus making it more likely that you’ll actually use a pattern, PIN, or passcode to keep your data safe. The sensational headlines about big, bad malware monsters lurking in the dark and waiting to pounce on unsuspecting victims may be scary, after all — but here in the real world, you’re far more likely to suffer from your own self-made security shortcomings than from any sort of theoretical threat.
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Credit to Author: Emily Dreyfuss| Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 10:30:22 +0000
Governments need to focus on real-world solutions to terrorism.
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Credit to Author: Arthur Rizer| Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 14:15:00 +0000
Opinion: The internet of things has permitted the hacking of whole new categories of products — including sex toys.
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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 20:16:41 +0000
A complete guide to James Comey’s Thursday Senate testimony.
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Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2017 15:49:18 +0000
Christopher Wray, Trump’s nominee for FBI Director, spent years working with—and learning from—James Comey and Robert Mueller.
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