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How to Find the Truth on Twitter
Researchers have developed a framework to evaluate whether an event reported on Twitter is a likely witness account.
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New Nist Forensic Tests Help Ensure High-Quality Copies of Digital Evidence
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a set of software tools designed to ensure digital evidence holds up in court.
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New Mapping Technique Can Help Fight Extreme Poverty
Researchers say they have developed a new way to create poverty maps by using computational tools such as cellphone records, data from satellites, and geographic...
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How Implants Powered By Ultrasound Can Help Monitor Health
Researchers have unveiled small implants designed for disease diagnosis and treatment by using ultrasound to safely beam both energy and instructions.
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AI Researchers Are Trying to Combat How AI Can Be sed to Lie and Deceive
Artificial intelligence researchers gathered last week to discuss measures against the technology's use for deceit and disinformation.
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This Machine-Learning Algorithm Can Turn Any Line Drawing Into Ascii Art
Osamu Akiyama at Osaka University in Japan says he has developed a machine-learning neural network that can render any kind of line drawing in ASCII.
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Seeing Through Walls of nknown Materials
A new technique exploits a wall's symmetry to see through it using a narrow band of microwave frequencies without any advance knowledge of the material making up...
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Diagnosing Performance Problems in Supercomputers
The Lightweight Distributed Metric Service is a framework to automatically monitor and diagnose performance issues in supercomputers.
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Twitter Can Reveal Our Shared Mood
Researchers at the University of Bristol in the U.K. have found that tweets reflect strong patterns of positive and negative moods over a 24-hour day.
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Revolutionizing Electronics sing Kirigami
Researchers in Japan have developed an ultrastretchable bioprobe using Kirigami designs, which enables the device to follow the contours of deformable biological...
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It's Super Hard to Find Humans in the Fcc's Net Neutrality Comments
The Federal Communications Commissions''public comment period on its plans to repeal net neutrality protections was bombarded with bots, memes, and input from people...
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Berners-Lee, Woz, Cerf: Cancel Flawed Net Neutrality Vote
Internet and technology luminaries, including Web creator Tim Berners-Lee, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and "Father of the internet" Vint Cerf, have called on...
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Virtual Reality Makes Journalism Immersive, Realism Makes It Credible
Researchers at Pennsylania State University have found virtual reality can help journalists pull readers into their stories, but flashier design elements of VR...
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Tracking Dolphins With Algorithms You Might Find on Facebook
Researchers have used a machine learning algorithm similar to Facebook's friend recommender program to track dolphins.
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Researchers Launch Moon Mission Audio Site
Researchers are using a 2012 grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop Explore Apollo, a public website featuring audio from the Apollo moon missions...
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AI Will Replace Coders By 2040, Warn Academics
Coders and programmers could find themselves becoming marginalized by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence.
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Google's 'superhuman' Deepmind AI Claims Chess Crown
Google says its DeepMind unit's AlphaGo Zero algorithm defeated world-leading specialist software Stockfish 8 in a chess match within hours of teaching itself the...
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'grinch Bots' Attempt to Steal Christmas By Driving p Toy Prices
Online fraudsters are frustrating Christmas shoppers by using software bots to buy up the most popular toys to resell at inflated prices at third-party websites...
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Virtual Reality sers Must Learn to se What They See
A new study has found virtual reality users need training to effectively perceive and use virtual imagery.
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