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Legislating Against AI Bias
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Legislating Against AI Bias

Is this the beginning of the end of algorithmic bias in public-sector services?

AI Technology Could Help Protect Water Supplies
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AI Technology Could Help Protect Water Supplies

Researchers have developed artificial intelligence software that can identify and quantify different kinds of cyanobacteria that can shut down water systems.

Bug-Sized Robot Competitors to Swarm DARPA's 'Robot Olympics'
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Bug-Sized Robot Competitors to Swarm DARPA's 'Robot Olympics'

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking insect-sized robots to compete under its Short-Range Independent Microrobotic Platforms (SHRIMP) program...

NIH Partners With Google Cloud to Speed ­p Medical Breakthroughs
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NIH Partners With Google Cloud to Speed ­p Medical Breakthroughs

A new U.S. National Institutes of Health program aims to help researchers accelerate biomedical advances by providing access to commercial cloud computing technologies...

Decade-Old Bluetooth Flaw Lets Hackers Steal Data Passing Between Devices
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Decade-Old Bluetooth Flaw Lets Hackers Steal Data Passing Between Devices

A study by the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology warns of a decade-old bug in the Bluetooth specification.

World's Largest Robot Hauls Ore Through Western Australia
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World's Largest Robot Hauls Ore Through Western Australia

The world's largest robot is an autonomous train that hauls tons of material across Australia.

The Ethics of Computer Science: This Researcher Has a Controversial Proposal
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The Ethics of Computer Science: This Researcher Has a Controversial Proposal

In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science...

How They Did It (and Will Likely Try Again): GR­ Hackers vs. ­S Elections
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How They Did It (and Will Likely Try Again): GR­ Hackers vs. ­S Elections

In a press briefing just two weeks ago, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced that the grand jury assembled by Special Counsel Robert Mueller had returned...

DARPA Seeks ­nderground Mapping Capability
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DARPA Seeks ­nderground Mapping Capability

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in September will host competitions to advance geotechnology's subterranean mapping capabilities.

Future Electronic Components to Be Printed Like Newspapers
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Future Electronic Components to Be Printed Like Newspapers

Purdue University researchers have developed a manufacturing technique that can make electronics faster than conventional methods.

Hubble Researcher Focuses on Blockchain for Space Data Processing
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Hubble Researcher Focuses on Blockchain for Space Data Processing

A Space Telescope Science Institute astronomer is testing a decentralized blockchain network for processing massive volumes of data produced by the Hubble Space...

Computing Power Solves Molecular Mystery
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Computing Power Solves Molecular Mystery

Norwegian University of Science and Technology researchers have come up with a new technique for probing molecular behavior.

Wild About Tech, China Even Loves Robot Waiters That Can't Serve
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Wild About Tech, China Even Loves Robot Waiters That Can't Serve

The mind-reading headsets won't read minds.

Augmented Reality Makes Robots Better Coworkers
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Augmented Reality Makes Robots Better Coworkers

Roboticists from the University of Colorado, Boulder are investigating the use of augmented reality to improve human-robot collaboration.

Arizona Teachers Trained to Integrate Computer Science in Their Classrooms
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Arizona Teachers Trained to Integrate Computer Science in Their Classrooms

Grand Canyon University recently hosted more than 80 teachers from across Arizona for a workshop on how to integrate computer science curriculums into their classrooms...

Japanese Researchers ­se AI to Identify Early-Stage Stomach Cancer With High Accuracy
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Japanese Researchers ­se AI to Identify Early-Stage Stomach Cancer With High Accuracy

Researchers have successfully used artificial intelligence to identify early-stage stomach cancer with high accuracy.

Apps Make It Easy for Domestic Abusers to Spy
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Apps Make It Easy for Domestic Abusers to Spy

Cornell University researchers have found thousands of applications enabling domestic abusers to spy on their partners.

Rethinking Autonomous Vehicles
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Rethinking Autonomous Vehicles

Consumer fears intensify as self-driving car fatalities dent the driverless dream.

Who Just Beat the Bay Area in Tech Jobs? Toronto
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Who Just Beat the Bay Area in Tech Jobs? Toronto

Toronto's tech scene is so hot the city created more jobs than the San Francisco Bay area, Seattle and Washington, D.C., combined last year, while leapfrogging...

­sing Machine Learning for Music Knowledge Discovery
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­sing Machine Learning for Music Knowledge Discovery

Researchers collaborated on the use of machine learning algorithms to gain new insights about the history of music.
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