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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Facial Recognition Algorithms Improve
The accuracy of facial-recognition algorithms has improved over the past three years, according to a U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...
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Why Businesses Should Use Caution With Html5-Based Mobile Apps
University of Syracuse researchers have found that vulnerabilities in HTML5 could enable malicious code execution in mobile apps.
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Losing the Key
In this age of rapid transformation, the house key has been surprisingly resistant to change.
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Software That Sees Employees, Not Outsiders, As the Real Threat
A growing number of companies are under pressure to protect sensitive data—and not just from hackers lurking outside the digital walls.
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Internet of Things to Increase Shortage of Security Professionals
Cisco's 2014 Annual Security Report says about 1 million information security staffers and managers are needed to meet global demand for cybersecurity professionals...
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Darpa's Plan X Tech Visualizes Battle's Cyber Effects
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Plan X program aims to create technologies to help the Defense Department with cyberwarfare.
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Meet Diesel, a Cute Dog and Organic Robot
A Labrador Retriever named Diesel has become a canine that functions as a Cyber-Physical Search and Rescue Dog through a high-tech vest.
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Facial Recognition Gets Real
Facial recognition and expression analysis technologies are maturing, and they're changing the face of marketing, healthcare, security, and more.
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Squiggly Lines Secure Smartphones
To protect your financial and personal data, most mobiles come with PIN-based security, biometrics or number grids that require you to retrace a particular pattern...
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Scotus to Weigh In on When Online Rants Become Criminal Threats
The US Supreme Court on Monday announced that it will consider a case involving a thorny free speech issue in the digital age: at what point does a statement made...
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Who's Using Your Data?
The HTTP with Accountability protocol is designed to track the transmission of private data and enable the data owner to see how it is used online.
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How to Watch the World Cup in the .s. Without Paying For Tv
Most of the world can watch the World Cup for free. Not so much in the U.S.
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Google Embraces Docker, the Next Big Thing in Cloud Computing
Google is putting its considerable weight behind an open source technology that’s already one of the hottest new ideas in the world of cloud computing.
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Fcc Unveils 'new Regulatory Paradigm' For Defeating Hackers
The Federal Communications Commission is working to expand its role among federal agencies charged with protecting U.S. networks from cyberattacks.
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Nsf, Intel Labs Partner on Cyber-Physical Systems Security and Privacy
The U.S. National Science Foundation and Intel Labs have partnered to support new approaches to securing current and emerging cyber-physical systems.
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With New Hack, Cellphone Can Get Data Out of Computers
A cellphone can be used to engage in air-gap network hacking, according to researchers at Ben Gurion University.
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How Online 'chatbots' Are Already Tricking You
Sometimes it's the promise of sex that fools you.
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Cyberattack Insurance a Challenge For Business
Julia Roberts's smile is insured. So are Heidi Klum’s legs, Daniel Craig's body and Jennifer Lopez's derrière.
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Paper Planes Transform Into Tiny Drones
It took Chuck Pell less than a minute to build his drone.
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