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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Disaster Apps Share Personal Data in Violation of Their Privacy Policies
Popular disaster applications are violating their privacy policies by continuing to track users' whereabouts, or providing personal information to third parties...
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Schools Struggling to Stay Open Get Hit by Ransomware Attacks
Schools struggling to stay open during the Covid-19 pandemic are being targeted by ransomware, as hackers threaten to post sensitive student information online....
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The Role of LARPing in Computer Science Education
Live-action roleplaying (LARPing) could make computer science education more engaging and effective.
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'Extremely Aggressive' Internet Censorship Spreads in the World's Democracies
University of Michigan researchers used an automated censorship tracking system to demonstrate that online censorship is proliferating in even the freest countries...
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The FBI Buying 140 Robots to Handle Paper Records
The robots will glide along an overhead track, drop down at the right place, and retrieve whatever file or record is needed.
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Apple to Pay $113 Million to Settle State Investigation into iPhone 'Batterygate'
Investigators from 34 states and the District of Columbia, including Democratic and Republican attorneys general, joined the settlement.
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Stretchable Sensor Gives Robots, VR a Human Touch
Cornell University researchers have developed a fiber-optic sensor that can be use in a stretchable skin to sense deformations like pressure, bending, and strain...
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'Most Secure' U.S. Election Not Without Problems
Although federal officials declared the 2020 presidential election the "most secure in American history," there were still technical problems.
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Meat Giant Tyson Girds for Virus Surge, Tracking Covid-19 with Algorithms
Tyson Foods CEO Dean Banks said the U.S. meatpacking company is using infection-tracking algorithms and employee testing to protect workers from a Covid-19 surge...
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Boston Dynamics Dog Robot Learns New Tricks on BP Oil Rig
Boston Dynamics is programming its "Spot" dog robot to read gauges, look for corrosion, construct maps, and detect methane leaks.
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Don't Fear the Robots, and Other Lessons From a Study of the Digital Economy
A task force assembled by MIT examined how technology has changed, and will change, the work force.
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How to Make AI Less Biased
Academic researchers and the technology industry are working to eliminate bias from artificial intelligence systems.
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'Robotic Snake' Device Grips, Picks Up Objects
A soft fabric robotic gripper developed by University of New South Wales Sydney engineers can grasp, pick up, and release fragile objects without breaking them....
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A Measure of Smell
Computer scientists, neurobiologists, and a master-perfumer at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science have developed a framework for odors that maps how they are...
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Quantum Algorithm Breakthrough
City College of New York researchers say they have developed a quantum algorithm with the potential to study a class of many-electron quantums system using quantum...
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1 in 5 Consumers Has Avoided Buying a Brand Over Its Data Practices
Survey finds widespread skepticism over how companies collect and use personal data.
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Future Series: Cybersecurity, Emerging Technology and Systemic Risk
Unless action is taken now, by 2025 next generation technology, on which the world will increasingly rely, has the potential to overwhelm the defences of the global...
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Computer Scientists Launch Counteroffensive Against Video Game Cheaters
University of Texas at Dallas computer scientists have developed a countermeasure against video game cheaters.
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