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Massive Spying on Users of Google's Chrome Shows New Security Weakness
A recent spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of add-ons to Google's Chrome Web browser.
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Inside the NBA's Plan to Use Smart Technology, Big Data to Keep Players Safe From Coronavirus
The NBA plans to use smart technologies to protect players and staff as 22 teams prepare to play at Disney's Wide World of Sports complex in Orlando.
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Digitize Your Dog Into a Computer Game
Researchers have digitized the movements of 14 dog breeds.
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Circular Reasoning: Spiraling Circuits for More Efficient AI
Researchers stacked resistive random-access memory modules for artificial intelligence applications in a novel three-dimensional spiral.
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Robots Will Take 50 Million Jobs in the Next Decade. These Are the Skills You'll Need to Stay Employed
A new report finds that automation will take over a significant part of work activities in Europe by 2030.
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The Cost of Training Machines Is Becoming a Problem
The assumption that the cost of training computers is declining with the doubling of computing power every two years does not always hold true.
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DGCA Nod Clears Runway for the Dawn of Drone Age
India's Directorate-General of Civil Aviation is permitting 13 companies to test fly beyond visual line of sigh (BVLOS) drones.
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For a Cold, Heartless Robot, Sally Makes a Decent Salad
A new high-tech vending machine can dispense a salad into a compostable bowl and keep ingredients at constant, food-safe temperatures.
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Five Times More Efficient Data Transfer
Researchers have developed a method to transfer bits across a silicon chip up to five times more efficiently than standard setups.
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U.S. HHS Battles DDoS
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services networks were hit by a Distributed Denial of Service attack just as the coronavirus pandemic was ramping up.
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China is Collecting DNA From Tens of Millions of Boys and Men, Using U.S. Equipment
Even children are pressed into giving blood samples to build a sweeping genetic database that will add to Beijing's growing surveillance capabilities.
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Riding Out Quarantine With a Chatbot Friend: ‘I Feel Very Connected’
The digital companions may sound like science fiction. But when social isolation became the norm, they helped deal with the loneliness, some users say.
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Quantum Backbone
An Oak Ridge early-career award recipient plots the infrastructure for a quantum-information highway.
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Activists Cite Tabulation Flaw in Georgia Mail-In Ballots
Thousands of votes in Georgia's primary may not have been counted, due to faulty software or poorly calibrated scanners used to count mailed ballots.
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Ceze, Strauss Share ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award
The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture named Luis Ceze and Karin Strauss to share the 2020 Maurice Wilkes Award.
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Tech Companies Say They Value Diversity, but Reports Show Little Change in Last Six Years
A CNBC analysis of minority hiring by tech companies found they have made little progress since vowing to increase diversity six years ago.
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Norway Pulls Its Coronavirus Contact Tracing App After Privacy Watchdog's Warning
Norway has suspended use of a coronavirus contact tracing application to allow changes to be made.
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Elite CIA Unit that Developed Hacking Tools Failed to Secure its Own Systems, Allowing Massive Leak
The breach came nearly three years after Edward Snowden stole and disclosed classified information about NSA surveillance operations.
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Next-Generation Cockroach-Inspired Robot Is Small, but Mighty
The researchers say the new robot is one of the smallest and most dexterous robots created to date.
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