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Secretive Pentagon Research Program Looks to Replace Human Hackers with AI
Project IKE tracks every keystroke made by 200 fighters working on computers, and churns out predictions about the possibility of success on individual cyber missions...
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Smart Device Hacks Up Since the Pandemic Started
Cybersecurity researchers have found that hacks on smart devices have climbed since the Covid-19 pandemic began.
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Googling for Gut Symptoms Predicts Covid Hot Spots, Study Finds
A study by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital found that online searches on gastrointestinal symptoms can forecast a spike in coronavirus cases weeks...
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With Election Cybersecurity Experts in Short Supply, Some States Call In the National Guard
Some U.S. states are asking the National Guard to dispatch cybersecurity experts to fortify their voting systems ahead of the general election in November.
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$3M Breakthrough Prize Goes to Scientist Designing Molecules to Fight Covid-19
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation named the University of Washington's David Baker to receive $3 million for his use of computers to design complex molecules.
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Portland Adopts Landmark Facial Recognition Ordinances
The City Council of Portland, OR, on Wednesday adopted two landmark ordinances barring city and private usage of facial recognition technology.
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Robot Dogs Join U.S. Air Force Exercise
A recent U.S. Air Force exercise utilizing robot dogs offered a potential preview of things to come on battlefields.
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Kids' Smartwatches a Security Nightmare, Despite Years of Warnings
Researchers at Germany's Münster University of Applied Sciences found smartwatch brands marketed for children are exploitable, based on years of similar findings...
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Take a Road Trip Using the 2020 Robotics Roadmap
Every four years a Roadmap for U.S. Robotics is published. 2020 is the year for the latest edition, and RIA Robotics Week just introduced it.
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Helping Companies Prioritize Their Cybersecurity Investments
A platform developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology can quantify security risks for companies without requiring them to disclose sensitive...
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Method for Automated Control Leverages Advances in AI
Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developed a method for designing automated control systems that incorporate advances in deep learning and...
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Swiss Official Airs Concerns About Data Privacy in U.S.
Switzerland's Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner Adrian Lobsiger called a U.S.-Swiss program for shielding personal information shared between...
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Anticipating the Feeling Economy
As artificial intelligence proliferates, human emotional intelligence increasingly will be prized in workers.
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Public Webcams Are Telling Us Whether People Are Social Distancing
Since April, computer scientists at Purdue University have been using an online database of public cameras to track compliance with social-distancing guidelines...
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Stanford Launches AI-Powered TV News Analyzer
Researchers have launched an interactive tool powered by artificial intelligence that enables the public to search cable TV news transcripts and compute the screen...
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26-Year-Old is First Woman to Win Africa Prize for Innovation
BACE Group CEO Charlette N'Guessan, 26, is the first woman named to receive the 2020 Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.
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AI Removes Unwanted Objects From Photos
A new algorithm uses artificial intelligence to digitally remove unwanted objects in photos.
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Scientists Model Neural Activity From Living Human Cells on Brain-on-a-Chip Devices
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists developed three-dimensional brain-on-chip devices that mimic the neural activity of brain cells cultured outside...
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A Robot Wrote This Entire Article. Are You Scared Yet, Human?
We asked GPT-3, OpenAI's powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace
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