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New Algorithm Can Create Movies From Just a Few Snippets of Text
A new algorithm creates videos from text snippets.
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How Do Teachers Integrate STEM Into K-12 Classrooms?
Michigan Technological University researchers conducted a study examining what makes science, technology, engineering, and math education integration practices...
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Private Browsing Gets More Private
The new Veil system is designed to improve private browsing by guaranteeing that any data the browser loads into memory remains encrypted until it is displayed...
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Edible Electronics Are Here Thanks to Researchers at Rice niversity
Researchers at Rice University say they have produced edible graphene.
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Augmented Reality Takes 3D Printing to Next Level
Researchers are using augmented reality to advance three-dimensional printing and three-dimensional modeling technologies
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Teaching Quantum Physics to a Computer
Researchers have used machine learning to teach a computer to predict the outcomes of quantum experiments.
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Purdue Prof: Future AI Advances Pose Problems for Police, Courts
A Purdue Polytechnic Institute professor says pursuing artificial intelligence advancements without considering their criminal implications is foolhardy.
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Researchers Creating an App to Track, Analyze Dangerous Chronic Wounds
Researchers will use a U.S. National Institutes of Health grant to develop a smartphone application to help patients and caregivers track and assess potentially...
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Seeing the Brain's Electrical Activity
Researchers say they have developed a light-sensitive protein that can indicate how much voltage a particular nerve cell is experiencing.
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Apple Moves to Store iCloud Keys in China, Raising Human Rights Fears
When Apple Inc begins hosting Chinese users' iCloud accounts in a new Chinese data center at the end of this month to comply with new laws there, Chinese authorities...
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Machine Learning With Limited Data
Researchers have developed a neural network system that requires fewer parameters and training images when working toward image-recognition technology.
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niversity Researcher nveils 'Creeper' Business Tool
Creeper is a new software program designed to protect businesses against a cybersecurity threat known as "permissions creep."
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Making Data Storage Personal With #MemoriesInDNA
Researchers at the University of Washington have teamed with Microsoft and Twist Bioscience to encode 10,000 digital images into DNA.
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Real-Time Captcha Technique Improves Biometric Authentication
The Real-Time Captcha is a new login authentication approach designed to enhance the security of current biometric methods that rely on video or images of users'...
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Star Wars Robots Like R2-D2, C3PO Could Help You in Real Life
Texas A&M University professor Robin Murphy thinks robots such those featured in the "Star Wars" movies could have practical communicative applications.
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AI Trained to Spot Heart Disease Risks sing Retina Scan
The idea behind using a neural network for image recognition is that you don't have to tell it what to look for in an image.
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How ProPublica Became Big Tech’s Scariest Watchdog
The nonprofit is fighting fire with fire, developing algorithms and bots that hold Facebook and Amazon accountable.
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The Myth of the Hacker-Proof Voting Machine
In 2011, the election board in Pennsylvania's Venango County—a largely rural county in the northwest part of the state—asked David A. Eckhardt, a computer science...
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Robo-Picker Grasps and Grabs
A new "pick-and-place" robot features a standard industrial robotic arm equipped with a custom gripper and suction cup.
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