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Walk This Way: A Better Way to Identify Gait Differences
Researchers re developing new input/output architectures for convolutional neural network-based cross-view gait recognition by utilizing a Siamese network for verification...
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Why They Dox: First Large-Scale Study Reveals Top Motivations and Targets For This Form of Cyber Bullying
Researchers say they have published the first large-scale study of doxing.
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Only If It Serves the State: North Korea's Online Experience
Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online.
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Highly Flexible Organic Flash Memory For Foldable and Disposable Electronics
A new ultra-flexible organic flash memory can be applied to non-conventional substrates, such as plastics and papers.
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Facebook Can Make Your Profile Pic Wink and Scowl
Researchers have been developing a tool that can take a single image of a face and create an animated version that puts on either a happy, sad, or angry expression...
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A Robotic Spy Among the Fish
Researchers have developed a miniature robot that can integrate perfectly into schools of zebrafish.
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Texas Gunman's Iphone Could Reignite Fbi-Apple Feud Over Encryption
The FBI and Apple are bracing for another potential fight over encryption, this time because of the iPhone of the dead gunman in Sunday's Texas church shooting,...
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Salesforce AI Researchers Came p With a Faster Way to Translate Text--and It's Based on Tech From Google
Salesforce artificial intelligence researchers have disclosed details of their project to translate text without human input, using Google's Transformer system....
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Brown/hasbro Team to Design Smart Robotic Companions to Assist Seniors
Researchers are using a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to enhance Hasbro's Joy for All Companion Pets into smart robots that can help older adults with...
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Law Enforcement’s Ongoing Problem with Mobile Encryption
Organizations like the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation have a hard time cracking suspects' smartphones, thanks to end-to-end encryption.
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Researchers Develop Data Bus For Quantum Computer
Researchers at the University of Innsbruck in Austria have developed a technique to transfer quantum information between systems that are encoded in different ways...
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The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper
For years, Barbara Simons was the loneliest of Cassandras—a technologist who feared what technology had wrought. Her cause was voting: Specifically, she believed...
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Fbi Again Finds Itself nable to nlock a Gunman's Cellphone
The Texas church massacre is providing a familiar frustration for law enforcement: FBI agents are unable to unlock the gunman's encrypted cellphone to learn what...
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Choreography With Computers
Singapore Management University professor Akshat Kumar is developing computational methods for choreographing the movements of autonomous cars and ships.
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Computer Scientists Aid in Major Astronomical Discovery
Computer science researchers recently helped to make a major advance in astronomy, as scientists announced last month they observed two neutron stars colliding....
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Touch-Sensitive Avatar-Robotic Arm Based on Real-Time Haptics
Researchers say they have developed a "real-time-avatar-robotic arm" that transmits sound, vision, and tactile sensations to remotely located users.
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Killer Robots: Australia's AI Leaders rge Pm to Support a Ban on Lethal Autonomous Weapons
A letter from 122 members of the Australian artificial intelligence research community urges Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to support for a ban on...
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System ses 'deep Learning' to Detect Cracks in Nuclear Reactors
Purdue University researchers are developing an artificial intelligence system to detect cracks captured in videos of a nuclear reactor.
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A Third of the Internet Is nder Attack
Researchers completing the first large-scale analysis of victims of Internet denial-of-service attacks worldwide found about a third of the IPv4 address space was...
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