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How does reality compare to the dreams of AI's early pioneers?
Much of today's AI is narrowly focused on specific tasks - a far cry from the general AI envisioned by the early pioneers
Latest Privacy Badger roots out Google link tracking
Link tracking is a sneaky way of following users as they leave a site via a weblink
Kalashnikov's Soviet-style concept car takes the EV fight to Tesla
There have been mixed reactions to the CV-1's looks
ProtonMail moves to support PGP encryption
Encrypted email moves one step closer to intercompatability
120 million Facebook users' data put at risk by leaky quiz app
Cambridge Analytica may have been the tip of the iceberg
Facebook fan site must warn users of data it collects, says European Court of Justice
Site cannot hide behind Facebook, Court says
China's Great Firewall: How it works and what it reveals about China's plans
China's censorship system employs millions of people and uses a mix of automated and manual techniques
Review: Dragon Professional Individual v15
Professional speech recognition tool offers impressive functionality, at a price
Facebook told: Stop tracking people on the web or pay €250k per day
Facebook told by Brussels-based court to stop tracking non-users and to delete all data held on them
Amazon to release its own full delivery service this year, report
Internet giant takes on UPS and FedEx as it seeks full control over package delivery
Linux Windows emulator Wine now available on Android
Wine 3.0 provides rudimentary support for Windows apps on Android, but it's very much a work-in-progress
New attack by 'BlackOasis' discovered by Kaspersky
FinFisher surveillance software downloaded onto victim's PCs
Review: Volt Pulse electric bike
A nice looking e-bike that's a breeze to ride
Blockchain's killer app is bitcoin, the rest is mostly 'pure marketing', says MaidSafe's David Irvine
Blockchains are not suited to many of the data security purposes being put forward for them
Facebook suspends suspected Russian political troll accounts
Accounts were linked to ads for contentious issues like LGBT and gun rights
Maersk, Microsoft and EY roll out blockchain-based marine insurance platform
System aimed to reduce paperwork and friction in the process of insuring shipments
Man jailed in China for selling VPN software
Arrest is part of a crackdown on internet freedom ahead of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China
Despite the terrorist threat encryption is 'very positive' and should not be weakened says former head of MI5
'I'm not personally one of those who believes we should weaken encryption' says Jonathan Evans
Robotic Process Automation is set to transform the services sector, says NIIT president Mehrotra
The back office is becoming the front office and everyone needs to be more customer facing
First block of Bitcoin 'hard fork' Bitcoin Cash mined
August split should mean a windfall for Bitcoin holders
Cryptocurrency miners hiring private 747s to deliver the latest AMD and Nvidia GPUs
Ships are too slow if you want to stay ahead, says Ethereum miner Genesis Mining
Bitcoin 'criminal mastermind' Vinnik arrested, accused of laundering $4bn
38-year-old Alexander Vinnik faces up to 55 years in jail
Bitcoin likely to split in two after 1 August
Holders of bitcoin could find themselves with free 'bitcoin cash' following a hard fork - but only if they have their private key
US nuclear facilities are being probed by hackers, government authorities say
Spear-phishing, man-in-the-middle and watering hole methods used to extract security credentials says FBI