The Financial Times
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Mehul Srivastava in Tel Aviv
– May 13, 2:54 PM
A vulnerability in the messaging app WhatsApp has allowed attackersto inject commercial Israeli spyware on to phones, the company and a spyware technology dealer said. WhatsApp, which is used by 1.5bn people worldwide, discovered in early May that…
SAN FRANCISCOSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is rolling out machines to automate a job held by thousands of its workers: boxing up customer orders. The company started adding technology to a handful of warehouses in recent years, which…
An American explorer has found plastic waste on the seafloor while breaking the record for the deepest ever dive. Victor Vescovo descended nearly 11km (seven miles) to the deepest place in the ocean - the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench. He spent…
For the first time ever, researchers have measured the fidelity—that is, the accuracy—of two-qubit logic operations in silicon, with highly promising results that will enable scaling up to a full-scale quantum processor. The research…
MIT Technology Review
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Will Knight
– May 1, 2:23 AM
On a dazzling morning in Palm Springs, CA, recently, Vivienne Sze took to a small stage to deliver perhaps the most nerve-wracking presentation of her career. She knew the subject matter inside-out. She was to tell the audience about the chips…
