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Bioprinter Shows Potential to Speed Tissue Engineering
Researchers have developed a bioprinter that can speed computer-controlled creation of human tissue.
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Framework Brings Accuracy, Efficiency to Identifying Stop Words
An algorithmic approach for data analysis automatically recognizes uninformative words, known as stop words, in a large collection of text.
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Facebook's AI Masters the Card Game Hanabi
Researchers at Facebook have taught the company's artificial intelligence software how to play the game Hanabi, a Solitaire-like card game that requires players...
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Handling Holiday Hackers
How to defend intimate details and card data while shopping online this season.
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Silicon Valley Is Listening to Your Most Intimate Moments
How the world's biggest companies got millions of people to let temps analyze some very sensitive recordings.
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Facebook's Ad Tools Subsidize Partisanship; Campaigns May Not Even Know It.
Researchers found that the technologies Facebook uses to sort the relevancy of advertising may be more responsible for the polarization of U.S. politics than previously...
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Microsoft, Ford Try Using Quantum-Style Computing to Solve Seattle's Traffic Problem
Microsoft and Ford Motor are using quantum-inspired computing models to try to optimize traffic management in Seattle.
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3D-Printed Bunny Contains DNA Instructions to Make Copy of Itself
Researchers three-dimensionally-printed a polyester rabbit that contains DNA in which instructions for making copies of itself are stored.
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On Data Privacy, India Charts Its Own Path
India is considering its first major data privacy statute.
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Hackers Can Mess With Voltages to Steal Intel Chips' Secrets
A new attack called Plundervolt gives attackers access to the sensitive data stored in a processor's secure enclave.
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Software Aims To Make Science More Replicable
A new open-source program combines the functions of a word processor with other things one might need when writing scientific research papers.
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Amazon Rolls Out Quantum-Computing Service
Amazon Web Services has launched a platform that lets enterprise customers explore how they could benefit from quantum computers by developing and testing quantum...
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New Data Addresses Gap in Fusion Research
Researchers have developed a method of enhancing the accuracy of computer models used in simulations of laser-driven implosions.
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Do We Need A Theory of AI?
What would a theory of artificial intelligence look like, and how might it be achieved?
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Researchers Uncover Russian-Style Information Operation Ahead of U.K. Elections
Graphika, a cyber-intelligence firm, discovered a campaign on Reddit and Twitter to disseminate leaked trade documents ahead of elections in the U.K.
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A World With a Billion Cameras Watching You Is Just Around the Corner
Industry researcher IHS Markit expects the number of cameras used for surveillance worldwide to rise above 1 billion by the end of 2021.
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3D Printing Offers Hope of Building Human Organs From Scratch
Scientists in Israel used three-dimensional (3D) printing to create perfusable cardiac tissue that was able to beat.
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A Few Cities Have Cornered Innovation Jobs. Can That Be Changed?
A report found that 13 innovation industries were mainly sited in a handful of urban areas in the U.S.
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Hand-Tracking Tech Watches Riders in Self-Driving Cars to See If They're Ready to Take the Wheel
Researchers have developed a hand-tracking system to determine how long it would take a driver to assume control of a self-driving car in an emergency.
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