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Apple, Tesla Ask California To Change Its Proposed Policies On Self-Driving Car Testing
Tesla and Apple have asked the state of California to change its proposed policies on…
Washington State Orchard Owners Look To Robots As Labor Shortage Worsens
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Seattle Times: Harvesting Washington state’s vast fruit orchards…
Airbnb Gives In To Regulator's Demand To Test For Racial Discrimination By Hosts
As part of an agreement with California regulators, Airbnb will allow the government to test…
Open Ports Create Backdoors In Millions of Smartphones
An anonymous reader writes: “Mobile applications that open ports on Android smartphones are opening those…
MIT Creates 3D-Printing Robot That Can Construct a Home Off-Grid In 14 Hours
Kristine Lofgren writes: Home building hasn’t changed much over the years, but leave it to…
Threatpost News Wrap, April 28, 2017
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap this year’s SOURCE Boston Conference and discuss the week…
WikiLeaks Reveals CIA Tool ‘Scribbles’ For Document Tracking
The CIA is planting web beacons inside Microsoft Word documents to track whistleblowers, journalists and…
Banks confident of their approach to security – but still get hit by hackers
How well does your bank look after your details? The financial institutions are pretty confident…