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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Your Next Vacation Is Written on Your Face
Travel companies are using sophisticated technology to help understand what people like.
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Underwater Drones Make Waves
Underwater drones offer scientists a glimpse into the world's least-known frontier.
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Decade of Cybersecurity Data Could Predict Future Malicious Online Activity
Researchers have developed a comprehensive dataset of the global cybersecurity threat landscape from 2007 to 2017, to help cybersecurity specialists derive new...
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That Music You're Dancing To? It's Code
Sonic Pi is a coding language that may be used to construct melodies in real time at live coding shows.
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System Helps Smart Devices Find Their Position
A new system helps networks of smart devices find their positions in environments where GPS usually fails.
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App Detects Eye Disease in Personal Photos
Baylor University researchers have developed a free smartphone app that uses machine learning to flag eye disease from personal photos, as much as a year ahead...
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Teen Hackers Try to Convince Parents They Are Up to Good
U.S. teenagers are forming hacking clubs and attempting to persuade their parents and teachers that hacking is not necessarily a malign vocation.
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IBM Hackathon Winner Helps Fight Rash of Wasted Food
A group called FreShip was named the winner of IBM’s Food Waste Developer Challenge, a hackathon that tasked U.S. developers to create food-waste-combatting solutions...
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'It's Going to be a Revolution': Driverless Cars in New London Trial
Driverless cars completed their first major street test in London this week.
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People Are Overconfident About Identifying Phishing Emails
The results of a new study suggest that people may be overconfident in their ability to identify email phishing scams.
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Ransomware Forces Hospitals to Turn Away All but Most Critical Patients
Ransomware has crippled hospitals in Alabama and Australia, blocking admission for all but the most critical new patients.
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U.S. Steps Up Scrutiny of Airplane Cybersecurity
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has revived a program to identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities in aviation, in conjunction with the Pentagon and the U...
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France Set to Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition ID Program
France is set to become the first European country to use facial recognition technology to provide its citizens secure digital identities.
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Military Drones Now Common to Nearly 100 Nations, Report Finds
A report by researchers at Bard College's Center for the Study of the Drone estimated that 95 countries currently own unmanned military drones—up from 60 in 2010...
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UBC Study Highlights Need to Improve Healthcare Access in Vancouver, Portland, Seattle
A study by researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada yielded a data science technique for analyzing how easily citizens can access hospitals...
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Microsoft, MasterCard, Hewlett Foundation Launch Institute to Investigate Cyberattacks
Microsoft, MasterCard, the Hewlett Foundation, and other organizations have jointly announced the launch of an institute to probe cyberattacks and help their victims...
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Lawmakers Warn About Threat of Political Deepfakes by Creating One
Two U.S. congressmen created an artificial intelligence-doctored political video to demonstrate the threat such disinformation presents.
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Women in STEM: No Simple Answers
National averages of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professions vary greatly, for many reasons.
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Ready, Set, Algorithms! Teams Learn AI by Racing Cars
Amazon Web Services developed the DeepRacer League, a competition designed to teach a branch of artificial intelligence known as reinforcement learning.
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