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'anonymous' Browsing Data Can Be Easily Exposed, Researchers Reveal
A German journalist and data scientist say they were able to easily obtain the "anonymous" online browsing information of more than 3 million Germans.
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4d Movies Capture People in Clothing, Creating Realistic Virtual Try-on
ClothCapture is new technology that can digitally capture clothing on moving people, turn it into a three-dimensional digital platform, and dress virtual avatars...
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Automatic Image Retouching on Your Phone
Researchers have developed a cellphone-based system that can automatically retouch images.
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Looking to the Future Through the First Autonomous Artificial Iris
Researchers have created an artificial iris that can react to light to the same degree as a human eye.
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Deception Tech Helps to Thwart Hackers' Attacks
In World War II, the Allies employed all kinds of sneaky tricks to deceive their enemies into thinking they had more troops and weapons at their disposal than they...
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Living Computers: Rna Circuits Transform Cells Into Nanodevices
Researchers have developed a method for harnessing living cells to perform computations using self-assembling designer RNA circuits.
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Designing Computer Software of the Future
Researchers have demonstrated that quantum computing could be useful for speeding up the solutions to "semidefinite programs."
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To Build a Smarter Chatbot, First Teach It a Second Language
Researchers at Salesforce have developed a method that could improve the performance of modern language programs.
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To Fix Voting Machines, Hackers Tear Them Apart
The toughest thing to convey to newcomers at the DefCon Voting Village in Las Vegas this weekend? Just how far they could go with hacking voting machines set up...
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Color-Shifting Electronic Skin Could Have Wearable Tech and Prosthetic ses
Researchers have developed a user-interactive electronic skin with a color change perceptible to the human eye.
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How AI Detectives Are Cracking Open the Black Box of Deep Learning
Loosely modeled after the brain, deep neural networks are spurring innovation across science.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Stuck. Here's How to Move It Forward.
To get computers to think like humans, we need a new artificial intelligence paradigm, one that places "top down" and "bottom up" knowledge on equal footing.
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Cars Suck p Data About You. Where Does It All Go?
Cars have become rolling listening posts. They can track phone calls and texts, log queries to websites, record what radio stations you listen to—even tell you...
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Nanoneurons Enable Neuromorphic Chips For Voice Recognition
Last month, IEEE Spectrum ran a special report focusing on the question "Can We Copy the Brain?" The report offered a thorough examination of all the ongoing efforts...
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'magic Bench' Lets sers See, Hear, and Feel Animated Characters
Researchers at Disney have developed the "Magic Bench," a combined augmented and mixed reality experience in which multiple users experience virtual surroundings...
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Chinese Scientists Create Biggest Virtual niverse With World's Fastest Computer
Chinese researchers have produced the largest virtual universe on Sunway TaihuLight, the world's fastest supercomputer, using 10 trillion digital particles. The...
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Robots, Start Your Engines!
There's nothing like a throw-down to push new technologies out to the masses.
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Two Groups Both Win $7.5m to Study Ai, Autonomous Systems
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded $15 million to two Cornell University research teams to pursue autonomous systems and artificial intelligence.
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