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This fall's new Federal Aviation Administration regulations have made drone flight easier than ever for both companies and consumers. But what if the drones out on the market aren't exactly what you want? A new system from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is the first to allow users to design, simulate, and build their own custom drone.
County after county has rejected the idea in recent days of performing the kind of software examination that the Green Party's lawyers and computer scientists who have long studied election systems say would be Green Party, election watchdogs get pushback in Pennsylvania County after county has rejected the idea in recent days of performing the kind of software examination that the Green Party's lawyers and computer scientists who have long studied election systems say would be Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2016 file photo.
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein on Wednesday made a major push to raise $2 million to pay for recount efforts in three critical battleground states that cost Hillary Clinton the election. Stein launched an online funding page Wednesday, hoping to raise the money by next week so recount efforts can begin immediately in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania -- three states that provide enough electoral votes to give Clinton the victory.
Reader Bruha writes: After examining results in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin computer scientists have discovered Clinton averaged 7% worse in counties with e voting machines vs. counties with only paper or optical scan ballots. From a CNN report: The computer scientists believe they have found evidence that vote totals in the three states could have been manipulated or hacked and presented their findings to top Clinton aides on a call last Thursday .
In a new twist in the US Elections, a number of top computer scientists are urging Hillary Clinton's campaign for a recount of vote totals in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, according to a source with knowledge of the request, reports CNN. The computer scientists believe they have found evidence that vote totals in the three states could have been manipulated or hacked and presented their findings to top Clinton aides on a call last Thursday, according to CNN.
Donald J. Trump's supporters were probably heartened in September, when, according to an article shared nearly a million times on Facebook, the candidate received an endorsement from Pope Francis. Their opinions on Hillary Clinton may have soured even further after reading a Denver Guardian article that also spread widely on Facebook, which reported days before the election that an F.B.I. agent suspected of involvement in leaking Mrs. Clinton's emails was found dead in an apparent murder-suicide.
Google's search engine highlighted an inaccurate story claiming that President-elect Donald Trump won the popular vote in last week's election, the latest example of bogus information spread by the internet's gatekeepers. The incorrect results were shown Monday in a two-day-old story posted on the pro-Trump "70 News" site.
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After taking control of China's online shopping market, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. wants to bring the business of instant feedback to a brick-and-mortar sector that's 10 times bigger. The nation's biggest e-commerce company is building a network that would allow physical stores -- and the brands they sell -- to monitor transactions as they happen, Chief Executive Officer Daniel Zhang said.
If you think that you'll get fresh unbiased news from Facebook Inc , you might be in for an unpleasant surprise. Facebook's trending news module has gone bonkers after the firm sacked its human editors.
Earlier this month, on his HBO show "Last Week Tonight," John Oliver skewered media companies' desperate search for clicks. Like many of his bits, it became a viral phenomenon, clocking in at nearly six million views on YouTube.
Microsoft has won an appeal in a closely watched legal case that tests the limits of law enforcement's ability to obtain data stored outside of the United States. On Thursday, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed a lower court's ruling that Microsoft must turn over e-mail communications for a suspect in a narcotics case stored in a Microsoft data center in Dublin.
Trump, who sailed through the Republican primaries using unconventional campaign rallies and Twitter messages, has indicated that he sees little use for popular data analytics tools to help target specific voters. "Big data" could play a huge role in the 2016 US election, even if Donald Trump doesn't think so.