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Archaeologists vs. Computers: A Study Tests Who's Best at Sifting the Past
When it came to the tedious task of categorizing pottery fragments, a deep-learning model was found to be just as accurate as four human experts, and far more efficient...
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Google Settles Antitrust Case Over Advertising Practices
Deal with competition authority resolves complaint over the firm's digital advertising tactics.
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Smart Bike Predicts Cars' Trajectories, Honks to Warn of Impending Crash
Engineers at the University of Minnesota have designed a prototype smart bicycle which they say can protect itself from collisions.
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Think You Know the World’s Most Popular Websites? Think Again
See the chaos of the Internet in this ridiculously detailed world map.
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Israel's Operation Against Hamas Was the World's First AI War
Israel's military calls its recent campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip the world's first artificial intelligence (AI) war.
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Like a Spellchecker for Developers: Automated Detection of Security Vulnerabilities in Cloud Applications
CodeShield software can detect and patch security bugs in cloud applications by automatically analyzing vulnerabilities in the program code.
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U.K. Has a Plan for a New 'Pandemic Radar' System
Disease surveillance schemes to catch the next rising virus already exist—they're just not communicating with each other.
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Tesla Activates In-Car Camera to Monitor Drivers Using Autopilot
Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla has turned the in-car camera in its Model 3 and Model Y vehicles into a monitor for when its Autopilot advanced driver assistance...
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Technology to Manage Mental Health at Your Fingertips
An electronic platform can read facial cues and vocal patterns and integrate readings from smartwatch sensors to detect psychological stress, according to Texas...
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Something Bothering You? Tell It to Woebot.
When your therapist is a bot, you can reach it at 2 a.m. But will it really understand your problems?
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Slender Robotic Finger Senses Buried Items
Researchers have developed a slender robot finger with tactile sensing capabilities that can help locate and identify buried objects.
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Pipelines Now Must Report Cybersecurity Breaches
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has announced new reporting mandates for pipeline operators following the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline...
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Germany Greenlights Driverless Vehicles on Public Roads
Legislation passed by the lower house of Germany's parliament would permit driverless vehicles on that nation’s public roads by 2022.
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Why Apple and Google's Virus Alert Apps Had Limited Success
The virus-tracing effort raises questions about the power of Big Tech to set global standards for public health tools.
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Facial Recognition Software Results in Few Arrests, Raises Concerns
Clearview AI has been marketing facial recognition software to law enforcement around the country. In Minnesota, some agencies are finding out the technology doesn't...
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Geico to Use AI to Speed Up Car Repairs
Auto insurer Geico has partnered with Tractable Ltd. to use artificial intelligence (AI) to obtain accurate damage estimates more quickly in an effort to speed...
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EU Beefs Up Disinformation Code to Prevent Digital Ad Profit
The EU has released plans to strengthen its three-year-old voluntary code of practice on online disinformation.
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Russia Pressures Tech Firms to Obey Online Crackdown
Its campaign is part of a global wave of actions by governments that are testing how far they can go to control online speech.
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More Efficient LiDAR Sensing for Self-Driving Cars
A new machine learning system for driverless cars uses an end-to-end mapless driving framework that taps raw Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data for autonomous...
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