ISIS communicates using human beings—not the Internet or phones, networks the U.S. intelligence apparatus can surveil with relative ease. Human couriers, in contrast, move quietly, quickly, and blend into the local population, rendering them effectively invisible.

The audio-recognition feature works similar to the app Shazam, which also can identify music and television programming using the built-in microphones in mobile phones.

After all, putting an all-seeing Google eye in space gives a whole new meaning to “do not track.”

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The U.S. Secret Service is looking to buy software to help it distinguish between sarcastic remarks made on social media and legitimate threats.

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