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Wireless System Can Power Devices Inside the Body
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Wireless System Can Power Devices Inside the Body

MIT researchers, working with scientists from Brigham and Women's Hospital, have developed a new way to power and communicate with devices implanted deep within...

­SB-IF Publishes HID Standard for Braille Displays
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­SB-IF Publishes HID Standard for Braille Displays

USB Implementers Forum has released a new standard for braille displays to improve accessibility for blind or low-vision users across different operating systems...

Teaching Chores To An Artificial Agent
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Teaching Chores To An Artificial Agent

Researchers will demonstrate a system that can simulate detailed household tasks and then have artificial "agents" execute them, opening up the possibility of one...

The G.D.P.R., Europe's New Privacy Law, and the Future of the Global Data Economy
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The G.D.P.R., Europe's New Privacy Law, and the Future of the Global Data Economy

They're curious messengers, these ants in your in-box.

Microsoft Is Developing a Tool to Help Engineers Catch Bias in Algorithms
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Microsoft Is Developing a Tool to Help Engineers Catch Bias in Algorithms

Microsoft is developing a tool that can detect bias in artificial intelligence algorithms with the goal of helping businesses use AI without running the risk of...

How Researchers Are Teaching AI to Learn Like a Child
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How Researchers Are Teaching AI to Learn Like a Child

Researchers in machine learning who use mountains of data to train computers to learn just about anything "have a blind spot," says Gary Marcus of New York University...

Distracted Driver and Braking Error Cited in Autonomous ­ber Car's Fatal Crash
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Distracted Driver and Braking Error Cited in Autonomous ­ber Car's Fatal Crash

More than a second before a self-driving car operated by Uber struck and killed a pedestrian in March, the vehicle's computer system determined it needed to brake...

Silicon Valley Must Consider Tech Ethics, DeepMind Chief Says
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Silicon Valley Must Consider Tech Ethics, DeepMind Chief Says

Big technology companies must rethink the way they develop products and services to put ethical considerations in the forefront, DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman...

Software Will Help Researchers Interact With Data in New Ways
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Software Will Help Researchers Interact With Data in New Ways

Brookhaven National Laboratory computer scientist Wei Xu is building software to help researchers visualize data and create an interactive environment that helps...

How China Acquires 'the Crown Jewels' of ­.S. Technology
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How China Acquires 'the Crown Jewels' of ­.S. Technology

The U.S. government was well aware of China's aggressive strategy of leveraging private investors to buy up the latest American technology when, early last year...

The Surprising Return of the Repo Man
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The Surprising Return of the Repo Man

The computer in the spotter car shouted "Hide!," and repo agent Derek Lewis knew that meant to keep driving like nothing had happened.

Disabled Videogamers Get a New Controller
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Disabled Videogamers Get a New Controller

Microsoft Corp. is making a videogame controller designed for people with disabilities, the latest in a growing number of industry efforts to accommodate players...

Smarter People Don't Have Better Passwords, Study Finds
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Smarter People Don't Have Better Passwords, Study Finds

A study by Asia Pacific College in the Philippines shows that students with better grades use bad passwords in the same proportion as students with bad grades. ...

Your Body is Transparentized in a Virtual Environment
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Your Body is Transparentized in a Virtual Environment

A team of researchers from Toyohashi University of Technology, the University of Tokyo, and Keio University have developed a method to induce a sense of illusory...

Wikipedia's Top-Cited Scholarly Articles, Revealed
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Wikipedia's Top-Cited Scholarly Articles, Revealed

The most-cited journal articles on Wikipedia include papers on the names of lunar craters and the DNA sequences of human and mouse genes—and many of the most popular...

Popular Encrypted Email Standards Are ­nsafe - European Researchers
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Popular Encrypted Email Standards Are ­nsafe - European Researchers

European researchers have found that the popular PGP and S/MIME email encryption standards are vulnerable to being hacked, leading them to urge people using them...

Volunteers Work to Save Vintage Train Simulator in Berlin
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Volunteers Work to Save Vintage Train Simulator in Berlin

Hydraulic systems jerk and pull the metal train cab back and forth as the driver pilots it along the tracks of Berlin's commuter rail system, as images of the city...

Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local ­niversities
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Facebook Adds A.I. Labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, Pressuring Local ­niversities

At a conference in Silicon Valley this week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, vowed that his company would "keep building" despite a swirl of questions...

The 15 People Who Keep Wikipedia's Editors From Killing Each Other
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The 15 People Who Keep Wikipedia's Editors From Killing Each Other

Wikipedia editors got locked in a dispute several months ago about the biographical summary boxes that sit atop some pages of the online encyclopedia. The tiff...

Avengers: Infinity War and the CG Effects Behind Thanos
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Avengers: Infinity War and the CG Effects Behind Thanos

Avengers: Infinity War is packed with dozens of beloved characters we've watched and loved over 10 years of Marvel movies. But one character stands—literally—head...
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