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Uber to introduce self-driving cars to its fleet in coming weeks
"Uber's move to carry people with autonomous vehicles is not surprising, given the company's history of pushing into gray areas where there is litt…
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Uber's big test in the steel city
"By using human backup drivers, Uber is basically testing the technology and taking people along for the ride, said Bryant Walker Smith, a University of So…
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Uber To Roll Out Self-Driving Cars In Pittsburgh
""Pittsburgh is going to have some self-driving car tourism. That's exciting for them," says Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at t…
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Uber to launch fleet of self-driving Volvos. Will Pittsburgh residents hop in?
"“Uber is doing the same thing many companies have been doing,” Bryant Walker Smith, an engineering professor at the University of South Carolina, told the…
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T-Mobile's New 'Unlimited' Data Plan Throttles Video, Slows Hotspots
"Net neutrality advocates criticized the feature on a number of fronts, including that the company's technical requirements excluded some video distrib…
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WikiLeaks postings of Turkish emails included active links to malware
"“Wikileaks does not appear to operate within any particular principles with regard to information dumps. The ad hoc nature of their leaks means that they…
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US wiretap figures don't match what the phone giants are saying — and that's a problem
"Albert Gidari, a former leading privacy lawyer who now serves as director of privacy at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, was fir…
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Ford plans to mass produce a 'no driver required' autonomous vehicle by 2021
"Bryant Walker Smith, an expert in legal aspects of autonomous driving, said that Ford's move points to how it plans to emphasize transportation as a s…
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Facebook Can’t Win Against Ad Blockers, and Here’s the Proof
"Narayanan concludes in his post that Facebook’s anti-ad-blocking campaign is doomed, at least if it continues in the current vein of acting as if the soci…
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Facebook Has Difficult Road to Make Ads Unblockable
"“Facebook engineers could try harder to obfuscate the differences. For example, they could use non-human-readable element IDs to make it harder to figure…
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Donald Trump wants ‘extreme vetting’ to stop terrorists at border
"“The policies and ‘pillars’ that were offered as solutions were often vague, and it is not clear they’d actually solve the serious challenges that exist i…
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Indiana businesses targeted as ransomware viruses spread across U.S.
"Hackers’ favorite targets include health systems and local governments, said Scott Shackelford, a professor of business law and ethics in the Kelley Schoo…