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Financial inclusion was never the problem. Lack of financial hygiene was. And today, the prime minister’s Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY or Jan Dhan), once celebrated as the world’s largest banking inclusion ...

The developers behind the Tor network have announced a major upcoming change. The free overlay network, which enables anonymous communication on the web, will soon adopt ...

Joshua Blumenstock is a Chancellor’s Associate Professor at the School of Information at UC Berkeley. Emily Aiken is a PhD ...

Probabilistic models, such as hidden Markov models or Bayesian networks, are commonly used to model biological data. Much of their popularity can be attributed to the existence of efficient and robust ...