British officials have given their word: "We won't read your emails." But experts say that its proposed new surveillance program, unveiled last week as part of the government's annual legislative program, will gather so much data that spooks won't have...
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British officials have given their word: "We won't read your emails." But experts say that its proposed new surveillance program will gather so much data that spooks won't have to read your messages to guess what you're up to.
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Kudo Tsunoda says that more hardcore gaming experiences are coming to Microsoft's Kinect motion-sensing system this year....
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Michael Recce discusses how advertising works and what algorithms Quantcast uses to analyze large amounts of data in order to find out what people are interested in. By Michael Recce
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Ever since his grad student days at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Amir Ronen, now a scientist at IBM Research - Haifa, has been thinking about the intersection of game theory and computer science. In fact, he’s one of the leaders in a sub-discipline,...
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Jim Manzi has an excellent post in The Atlantic where he examines the fundamental problem in social sciences, "How do we know that what we are doing is right?" His illustration of the complexity of drawing causal relationships in social sciences is spot-on,...
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