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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Your Cadillac Can Now Drive Itself More Places
The automaker has expanded the range of Super Cruise to include trickier divided highways in the U.S. and Canada.
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Students Build App That Empowers Teachers in Remote Corners of the World
Students have developed an Android app built specifically for teachers in developing countries that may have limited or no Internet access.
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How China's Smart-City Tech Focuses on Its Own Citizens
Deloitte and other sources say China is home to about half the approximately 1,000 smart cities currently under development worldwide.
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Image-Recognition Technology May Not Be as Secure as We Think
Evidence is growing that image recognition technology may be more susceptible to deception than previously assumed.
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How Tech Needs to Change for Coders with Disabilities
Programmers with disabilities continue to face serious accessibility issues.
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Computer Attack Mimics ser's Keystrokes, Evades Detection
Researchers have identified a malware technique designed to evade detection via individualized keystroke characteristics.
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The Day Computers Can Break All Encryption Is Coming
With quantum computing advancements threatening to expose all encrypted data, technology companies and security agencies are pursuing projects to preserve information...
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Supercomputing Dynamic Earthquake Rupture Models
Researchers have developed physics-based dynamic rupture models that can simulate complex earthquake ruptures using supercomputers.
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Driverless Congestion
A simulation of Zurich, Switzerland, demonstrated that driverless taxis would not replace personal transportation in cities, as long as private autonomous vehicles...
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Hacking Diabetes: People Break Into Insulin Pumps as an Alternative to Delayed Innovations
As some people invest in the latest advancements to help them cope with diabetes, others are hacking into insulin pumps to give them the ability to adjust themselves...
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Microsoft Quietly Deletes Largest Public Face-Recognition Dataset
Microsoft has deleted its MS Celeb dataset from the Internet.
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Robot Baristas are Latest Front in South Korea Automation Push
A wide range of South Korean businesses is increasingly incorporating robots and other automation technologies.
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Why Should We Care About Technology Ethics? The pdated ACM Code of Ethics
Ethical responsibility is especially critical to artificial intelligence developers, said Catherine Flick of the ACM Committee on Professional Ethics.
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Black Hole Mystery Solved With Most Detailed Simulation Ever
An international team of researchers used a supercomputer and custom-written code to generate the "most detailed" black hole simulation yet.
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Amazon nveils Hybrid Drone for Deliveries
Amazon has unveiled a drone that combines aspects of helicopters and airplanes, capable of vertical takeoffs and horizontal flight.
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6 nexpected Places Hackers Can Find Your Information
Sharing facts like your birthday or your parents' names can open you up to identity theft.
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Here Are the 40 Companies Computer Science Students Hope Will Hire Them
Employer branding specialist Universum has released its annual rankings of the most attractive employers in the U.S. for 2019.
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Apple macOS Security Protections Easily Bypassed With 'Synthetic' Clicks, Researcher Finds
A researcher found a zero-day vulnerability in a central Apple macOS safeguard, allowing apps or malware to circumvent permissions and access a user's private data...
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The Push Towards AI in Africa
Initiatives are underway to train African computer scientists in artificial intelligence, with major technology companies investing in the cultivation of new AI...
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