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How China Acquires 'the Crown Jewels' of .S. Technology
The U.S. government was well aware of China's aggressive strategy of leveraging private investors to buy up the latest American technology when, early last year...
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What Is GDPR and How Will It Affect You?
You could be forgiven for thinking that Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a law created to fill your inbox with identikit warnings from every...
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Computers Crack the Code of Pop-Song Success: It Helps to Be 'Happy' and 'Female'
University of California, Irvine researchers analyzed the properties of more than 500,000 songs released over three decades to extract the most popular ones.
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Interpol's New Software Will Recognize Criminals by Their Voices
The International Criminal Police Organization is assessing software that matches samples of speech in phone calls or social media to voice recordings in a law...
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First Wireless Flying Robotic Insect Takes Off
Engineers at the University of Washington have created the first wireless, insect-sized flying robot.
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Artificial Intelligence Improves Stroke, Dementia Diagnoses in Brain Scans
Software developed by researchers at Imperial College London and the University of Edinburgh in the U.K. has helped enhance stroke and dementia diagnosis.
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Alphabet's Jigsaw Offers Political Campaigns Free DDoS Protection
Jigsaw, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, is offering U.S. political organizations a free tool to defend against distributed denial-of-device attacks...
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The Surprising Return of the Repo Man
The computer in the spotter car shouted "Hide!," and repo agent Derek Lewis knew that meant to keep driving like nothing had happened.
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Gilles Brassard to Receive the Wolf Prize in Physics
Brassard, a cryptologist, is the co-winner of the 2018 Wolf Prize in Physics, which he is sharing with Charles Bennett of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center...
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It Takes a Single Autonomous Car to Prevent Phantom Traffic Jams
Honk if you've heard this one before: Autonomous and connected cars will make driving less of a drudge by handling the stop-n-go mundanity of your commute for you...
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New Device Could Increase Battery Life of Electronic Devices by More Than a Hundred-Fold
Researchers have developed a material that could extend battery life and reduce the heat generation of battery-powered electronic devices.
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Making Radio Chips for Hell
A new wireless radio mixer integrated circuit can operate at temperatures up to 500 degrees Celsius.
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An Electronic Rescue Dog
ETH Zurich researchers in Switzerland have created technology that can detect human metabolic emissions, which could potentially aid search and rescue teams.
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AI Generates New Doom Levels for Humans to Play
Researchers at the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy have found it is possible to have a deep learning algorithm create compelling new game levels in Doom...
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AI Made These Paintings
In Bloomberg Businessweek's annual Sooner Than You Think issue, artificial intelligence is also driving cars, making money, exploring oceans … and freaking people...
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Apple and Its Rivals Bet Their Futures on These Men's Dreams
Over the past five years, artificial intelligence has gone from perennial vaporware to one of the technology industry's brightest hopes.
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Penn Staters Create Smart Mirror to Match Tech With Beauty in Global Competition
Three Pennsylvania State University researchers will participate this week in the world finals of the 2018 L'Oreal Brandstorm contest in Paris.
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AI Detects Patterns of Gut Microbes for Cholera Risk
Researchers used algorithms to identify patterns within communities of bacteria in the human gut that could not be detected with the naked eye.
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Feel What This Robot Feels Through Tactile Expressions
Cornell University's Human-Robot Collaboration and Companionship Lab is developing a robot designed to explore textual communication.
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