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How to Hack an Election in 7 Minutes
When Princeton professor Andrew Appel decided to hack into a voting machine, he didn't try to mimic the Russian attackers who hacked into the Democratic National...
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Stanford-Led Experiments Point Toward Memory Chips 1,000 Times Faster Than Today's
Experiments are exploring a new class of semiconductor materials that could form the basis of phase-change memory capable of faster and permanent data storage.
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Of Heartbeats, Bones and Brushstrokes
A five-year, $1.5-million award will enable Duke University professor Ingrid Daubechies to expand her collaborative research involving mathematics and electrical...
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Cyber Protections Contemplated For U.s. Election Systems
The Obama administration is considering boosting cyber protections for U.S. election systems by classifying them as critical infrastructure.
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Troll Hunters: The Twitterbots That Fight Against Online Abuse
Researchers are working to automate the detection of harassment, but one says humans do not agree on what constitutes harassment.
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Flexible Wearable Electronic Skin Patch Offers New Way to Monitor Alcohol Levels
University of California, San Diego researchers have developed a wearable sensor that can accurately monitor alcohol level within 15 minutes.
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Def Con: Do Smart Devices Mean Dumb Security?
More and more people are finding that the devices forming this network of smart stuff can make their lives easier.
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Machine-Learning Algorithm Combs the Darknet For Zero Day Exploits, and Finds Them
In February 2015, Microsoft identified a critical vulnerability in its Windows operating system that potentially allowed a malicious attacker to remotely control...
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Donald E. Knuth Awarded Siam’s Highest Honor, Delivers the John Von Neumann Lecture
Knuth, who received the first ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1971 and the ACM A.M. Turing Award in 1974, was recognized for his contributions to mathematics and...
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Good News—the Robocalling Scourge May Not Be Unstoppable After All
New data shows that the majority of robot-enabled scam phone calls came from fewer than 40 call centers, a finding that offers hope the growing menace of robocalls...
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Hopes For Revolutionary New Lhc Particle Dashed
It would have been bigger than finding the Higgs boson and marked the beginning of a new era in particle physics.
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Libraries of Plastic Molecules Could Store Huge Amounts of Data
One day your hard drive could just be a pile of plastic. Researchers have coded a word into short chains of plastic molecules, which could be used as a space-saving...
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Programmable Ions Set the Stage For General-Purpose Quantum Computers
Researchers have introduced the first fully programmable and reconfigurable quantum computer module.
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Students' App Helps Dementia Patients Find Memories
Cornell University researchers have developed an application that offers to help Alzheimer's patients stay connected to their memories.
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Dot-Drawing With Drones
Researchers at McGill University are developing tiny drones to create dot drawings, an artistic technique known as stippling.
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AI Reads Your Tweets and Spots When You're Being Sarcastic
Researchers at the University of Lisbon have developed a machine learning system that can identify sarcasm on Twitter by examining a user's past tweets.
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Toyota Teaches Cars to Drive By Studying Human Drivers
The development of autonomous-driving capabilities and home-care robots are areas the recently created Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is exploring.
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Legal Confusion Threatens to Slow Data Science
Knowledge from millions of biological studies encoded into one network—that is Daniel Himmelstein's alluring description of Hetionet, a free online resource that...
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Single-Pixel Camera Reaches Milestone, Mimicking Human Vision
Computational imaging is undergoing a revolution. This is the discipline of making images using computational techniques rather than optical ones.
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