"But a number of major social media companies are wary of the idea. They say there is no clear consensus in the United States, and globally, as to what constitutes a terrorist image, and they might …
Microsoft-Funded Professor Builds Software to Fight Terrorism
"Dartmouth College computer science professor Hany Farid -- using funding from Microsoft Corp. -- has developed technology to help scrub extremist content from the internet. Working with the nonprofit …
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France’s latest ‘terrorist attack’ exposes dark side of social media
"Shortly after French police responded to a hostage situation on Monday night, the country's national police department posted a warning on Twitter: 'Do not participate in sharing hostile photos,' it …
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US Air Force plans to pluck dangerous drones out of the skies
"Robert Bunker, a counterterrorism expert at TRENDS Research & Advisory based in Abu Dhabi, says that there are likely to be two distinct occasions when autonomous drones need to be stopped: for …
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White House Challenges Artificial Intelligence Experts to Reduce Incarceration Rates
"The U.S. spends $270 billion on incarceration each year, has a prison population of about 2.2 million and an incarceration rate that’s spiked 220 percent since the 1980s. But with the advent of data …
France to Launch Smartphone ‘Terror Alert’ App
"A new smartphone app designed to alert users to possible terror attacks will be launched by the French government Wednesday, amid growing security concerns over the Euro 2016 football …
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Monkey knocks out Kenya’s entire power grid after ‘falling onto transformer at electricity plant’
" A monkey has been blamed for causing a nationwide blackout in Kenya after 'falling onto a transformer at a power station'. The country on Africa's east coast was without electricity for more than …
FAA Warns of GPS Outages This Month During Mysterious Tests on the West Coast
"Starting today, it appears the US military will be testing a device or devices that will potentially jam GPS signals for six hours each day. We say ‘appears’ because officially the tests were …
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Pentagon Hires Foreign Chips Supplier
"The Pentagon has decided to rely on an Abu Dhabi-owned company to supply the most advanced microchips used in U.S. spy satellites, missiles and combat jets." Source: Pentagon Hires Foreign Chips …
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After secret Harvard meeting, scientists announce plans for synthetic human genomes
"Three weeks ago, 130 scientists, entrepreneurs and policy leaders held an invitation-only, closed-door meeting at Harvard University to discuss an ambitious plan to create synthetic human genomes. …