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'Tough to Forge' Digital Driver's License Actually Easy to Forge
Security researchers have found that the supposedly hard-to-counterfeit digital driver's licenses in use in New South Wales, Australia, actually can be altered...
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Americans Have Their Sensitive Online Activity Exposed Over 700 Times Daily
Real-time bidding is a process that runs in the background on websites and apps and tracks what you look at, no matter how private or sensitive it is.
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U.K. Orders Clearview AI to Delete Images Belonging to U.K. Residents
The U.S. software company brands itself as "the world's largest facial network" holding billions of face photographs from the Internet.
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Barcelona Bets on 'Digital Twin' as Future of City Planning
Officials in Barcelona, Spain, are using the Barcelona Supercomputing Center's MareNostrum supercomputer to improve urban planning with a digital twin of the city...
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Differential Privacy the Correct Choice for 2020 U.S. Census
A new study concluded the U.S. Census Bureau's move to DP as a de-identification mechanism for the 2020 Census was appropriate.
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Chinese Hackers Tried to Steal Russian Defense Data, Report Says
The campaign detailed by a cybersecurity firm highlights Beijing's increasingly sophisticated tactics to spy on an array of targets, including countries it considers...
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Next-Generation Weather Reporting: Versatile, Flexible, Economical Sensors
A team of scientists in Japan has developed a multitasking weather sensor that measures rain volumes and wind speeds.
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Finding the Branches on the Tree of Life
The new Deep Learning for Unsupervised Clustering of DNA Sequences technique draws taxonomic relationships between organisms via unsupervised machine learning. ...
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Addressing Labor Shortages with Automation
Labor shortages have many companies turning to automation technology, but with mixed outcomes.
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Smart Pacifier Developed to Monitor Infant Health in Hospitals
U.S. and South Korean researchers have designed a bioelectronic pacifier to monitor the electrolyte levels of infants in Newborn Intensive Care Units (NICUs).
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Using AI to Predict Bone Fractures in Cancer Patients
Ohio State University researchers used artificial intelligence to predict how cancer could elevate the probability of spinal fractures by creating digital twins...
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Algorithm Trained to Detect Unhappiness on Social Networks
Scientists have created a deep learning algorithm that analyzes social network content to help diagnose users' potential for mental health problems.
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Robot Hives in Israel Kibbutz Hope to Keep Bees Buzzing
Artificial intelligence-equipped apiaries at Kibbutz Beit Haemek in Israel's Galilee region are designed to maintain bee health.
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Using AI to Analyze Large Amounts of Biological Data
A graph neural network could speed the development of drugs to treat cancer and other diseases.
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Some Top 100,000 Websites Collect Everything You Type--Before You Hit Submit
Researchers analyzed the top 100,000 websites and found a significant number record some or all of visitors' typewritten data.
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Smart Tech Helping to Save China's Giant Pandas
The Digital Panda System was designed to protect the habitat of giant pandas by detecting wildfires where they live and notifying emergency crews to intercede quickly...
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Drones, ML Help Reveal the Scale of Plastic Pollution
Researchers at Japan's University of Tsukuba combined flying drones and machine learning to map plastic pollution in river habitats.
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Astronomers Image Massive Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy
Astronomers used supercomputers and computer algorithms to record the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
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Multi-Tasking Wearable Continuously Monitors Glucose, Alcohol, Lactate
University of California, San Diego engineers have created a wearable device that continuously tracks monitor glucose, alcohol, and lactate levels simultaneously...
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