List of Science and Technology articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The U.S. Wants To Design Safer Anti-Aircraft Missiles for Syria’s Rebels
It’s not going very well.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 FBI Tech Boss: Govt. Hacking Won’t Solve Encryption Crisis
Amy Hess, the FBI’s executive assistant director for science and technology, says the bureau lacks the chops to consistently hack devices.
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Screen Shot 2016-04-11 at 2.05.23 PM In China, People Aren’t for Sale, but They Are for Rent
A new wave of startups exploits a legal gray zone between social networking and facilitating prostitution.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 DOJ Reopens Fight With Apple Over iPhone Access
The Justice Department wants access to the iPhone 5s belonging to a methamphetamine dealer.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Long-Awaited Senate Plan Would Require Companies Be Able to Decrypt On Demand
A bill written by the top senators on the Intelligence Committee escalates Washington's war with Silicon Valley over encryption.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Will Google And Facebook Copy WhatsApp’s Encryption Tech?
End-to-end encryption poses a huge threat to the business model of Internet giants.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Hillary Clinton Helped Build WhatsApp’s State-of-the-Art Encryption
Washington is worried about the popular messaging service’s new end-to-end encryption. But it might not exist without the U.S. government’s Internet freedom agenda.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Essay contest (2): Say farewell to linearity and brace yourself for the dispersed mass
“Dispersion” is coming.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Brainbelt Awakening
It’s time to stop championing the "lonely heroes" of innovation like Apple, Google, and Amazon and rally around the ingenuity of the world’s waning industrial communities.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 From Gender Biases to Extreme Parenting: The Top Questions Women Working in STEM are Sick of Hearing
2015 Global Thinkers Zainab Ghadiyali, Erin Summers, and Nina Tandon debate the meaning—and reach—of diversity in the sciences.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Round One Goes to the FBI, But the Crypto War Isn’t Over
Washington found a way of hacking a terrorist's iPhone without going to court with Apple, but the battle over encryption is only getting started.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 VW Now Facing North of $60 Billion In U.S. Fines for Emissions Cheat
The FTC sued Volkswagen Tuesday for what could end up being $15 billion in fines.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 FBI Hacks Terrorist’s iPhone, Defusing Standoff With Apple
The U.S. Justice Department has successfully hacked into an iPhone at the center of a heated legal battle with Apple.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How to Crowdsource the Syrian Cease-Fire
With major powers wary of putting boots on the ground in the Middle East, there’s a new push for high-tech solutions to monitor the world’s most volatile combat zone.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Brussels Attacks: Authorities Try to Keep Cell Network Up Under Strain
Belgian police have in recent days made progress in tracking terrorists' telephonic metadata.
