When America goes to the polls in November, every voter in New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, South Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana will use the same direct response electronic (DRE) voting machines that lack any paper backup and have been shown again and again to suffer from security flaws, according to polling place data gathered by the non-profit VerifiedVoting.org.

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Microcapsules in the gold circuit released liquid metal in response to damage, swiftly restoring electrical conductivity, and bringing self-repairing electronic chips a step closer.

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Partly in response to the resulting interest in online privacy and campaigns by groups like Access Now and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to universalize Web encryption, companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter have all added SSL capabilities.

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