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One in Five U.K. Schools Says Students Have Broken Into Computer Systems
A cybersecurity audit found 21% of 430 U.K. schools had their computers, networks, or servers hacked by students.
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COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All
In the beginning, there was machine languages and assembler. Neither was easy to use, but then along came COBOL, and everything changed.
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The Top Programming Languages 2019
IEEE Spectrum's 2019 roster of leading programming languages once again ranks Python in the top slot.
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Schools Pushed for Tech in Every Classroom. Now Parents Are Pushing Back.
U.S. schools have made huge technology investments in the last 10 years, but now parents and educators question whether the effect of technology on education has...
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Get Ready for More Humanlike Bots, Better Deep-Fake Videos, Wall-to-Wall Disinformation in 2020 Race
Two new studies anticipate that foreign and domestic actors will ramp up efforts to disseminate disinformation and fake news in order to manipulate voters in the...
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Why Mastercard Is Betting on Middle School Girls to Detect Cyberthreats
Mastercard's Girls4Tech program aims to inspire middle school girls worldwide to pursue careers in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, with the goal of recruiting...
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Robot Pilot That Can Grab the Controls Gets Its License
The ROBOpilot Unmanned Aircraft Conversion System passed the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Practical Test for piloting light aircraft and completed...
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Coming Soon to a Battlefield: Robots That Can Kill
Tomorrow's wars will be faster, more high-tech, and less human than ever before. Welcome to a new era of machine-driven warfare.
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An AI First: Voice-Mimicking Software Reportedly Used in a Major Theft
A French insurance company said one of its clients had been victimized by thieves using voice-mimicking software to imitate a company executive and dupe an employee...
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MIT's Fleet of Autonomous Boats Can Now Shapeshift
Scientists have upgraded a fleet of autonomous boats to autonomously disconnect and reassemble into different forms of floating platforms, in the canals of Amsterdam...
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How America's First Digitally Operated Reactor Could Push Nuclear Technology Forward
The Purdue University Reactor Number One nuclear plant has switched over from analog to all-digital operation as a testbed for the technology.
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British Farm Moo-ves into New Tech with 5G Collars on Cows
Researchers at the Agricultural Engineering Precision Innovation Center in the U.K. are testing next-generation 5G mobile technology aimed at helping make dairy...
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Amazon Tests Tool That Scans Your Hand to Let You Pay at Whole Foods
Amazon is reportedly testing a hand-scanning payments system to enable shoppers to pay for groceries at Whole Foods markets.
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Google Wants to Help Tech Companies Know Less About You
By releasing its homegrown differential privacy tool, Google will make it easier for any company to boost its privacy bona fides.
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Sally Floyd, Who Helped Things Run Smoothly Online, Dies at 69
In the early 1990s, Floyd was one of the inventors of Random Early Detection, which continues to play a vital role in the stability of the internet.
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Algorithms Should’ve Made Courts More Fair. What Went Wrong?
A 2011 Kentucky law requires judges to consult an algorithm when deciding whether defendants must post cash bail. More whites were allowed to go home, but not blacks...
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Stretchable Wireless Sensor Could Monitor Healing of Cerebral Aneurysms
Researchers have developed a wireless sensor small enough to be implanted in the blood vessels of the human brain.
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AI-Powered Cameras Become New Tool Against Mass Shootings
Artificial intelligence is transforming surveillance cameras from passive devices into active observers that can identify people, suspicious behavior, and guns....
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Mysterious iOS Attack Changes Everything We Know About iPhone Hacking
Google researchers discovered thousands of iPhones have been compromised with sophisticated spyware over the last two years, contradicting assumptions about the...
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