The administration will protest that they’re doing nothing of the sort. But why don’t we?
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Who’s Hacking Your Phone?
What scares you more: the idea that the NSA could take control of your phone, or the idea that a foreign intelligence service could?Â
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Future of Television at Stake at Supreme Court Today
OK, that’s a slight exaggeration. But the case of the scrappy, disruptive startup Aereo could alter the cable landscape.
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Would You Let a Robot Give You a Sponge Bath?
Most Americans think it would be a bad thing if robots provided aid for the sick and elderly. Here’s why they’ll come around.
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Where the Wild Things Are
Do we really want Google to photo-map the wilderness?Â
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George Takei, Living Long and Prospering from Social Media
How the former Star Trek star has become internet’s funny, corny uncle and its moral compass.
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Your Virtual Future
Virtual reality is finally coming, and it could end up being as big as the Internet itself.
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No Exit: The Digital Edition
In her new book, Dragnet Nation, Julia Angwin shows how badly disadvantaged ordinary people are in the struggle for privacy online.
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Federal Government Soon to Know Everywhere You’ve Driven
There are more license-plate cameras installed all the time. Now the government wants to put all the data together in one database.
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The Police Can’t Wait to Get Their Hands On Augmented Reality
The NYPD is figuring out what it can do with Google Glass. Eventually, cops everywhere will have something like it.
