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Virginia Tech Researchers: Android Apps Can Conspire to Mine Information From Your Smartphone
Researchers say they have conducted the first-ever large-scale systematic study of how the trusty applications on Android phones are able to talk to one another...
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The Founding Fathers Encrypted Secret Messages, Too
Thomas Jefferson is known for a lot of things—writing the Declaration of Independence, founding the University of Virginia, owning hundreds of slaves despite believing...
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Star Trek's Holodeck: From Science Fiction to a New Reality
Advances in artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and computer graphics are converging to make the Holodeck featured on "Star Trek: The Next Generation"...
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Finding Faces in a Crowd
Researchers have developed an improved method for coding important context from an image that enables a significant advance in detecting tiny faces.
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Why Asimov's Laws of Robotics Should Be Updated For the 21st Century
Tom Sorell, a professor at the University of Warwick in the U.K., suggests Isaac Asimov's famed "Three Laws of Robotics" need updating for the modern era,
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Tech Jobs Are Thriving Nationwide--p to 7.3m
The U.S. technology job market has expanded 2% to about 7.3 million employees since 2016, with 6.9 million employed by technology companies, according to CompTIA's...
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Synthetic Humans Help Computers Understand How Real People Act
We are difficult for computers to understand.
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Vector Institute Is Just the Latest in Canada's AI Expansion
Canadian researchers have been behind some recent major breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. Now, the country is betting on becoming a big player in one of...
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Can Robots Write Meaningful News?
The new Digital Personalization of the News project will explore whether robots can enhance journalism.
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Bias Test to Prevent Algorithms Discriminating nfairly
Researchers are developing a framework to identify and eliminate algorithmic bias.
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Faster Page Loads
Flowtune is a new system for allocating bandwidth in datacenter networks.
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Cybersecurity Expert Studies Novel Tools to Thwart Attacks
California State University, Fullerton professor Mikhail Gofman says maintaining cybersecurity "requires constant work, commitment, and dedication."
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Psychologists Enlist Machine Learning to Help Diagnose Depression
Researchers are using the Texas Advanced Computing Center's Stampede supercomputer to recognize patterns in neuroimaging data predictive of mental disorders such...
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Ghost in the Sell: Hollywood's Mischievous Vision of AI
Watch enough science fiction movies and you'll probably come to the conclusion that humans are living on borrowed time.
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For Sale: Your Private Browsing History
The US House of Representatives voted Tuesday to eliminate ISP privacy rules, following the Senate vote to take the same action last week. The legislation to kill...
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Machine-Learning Algorithm Watches Dance Dance Revolution, Then Creates Dances of Its Own
Dance Dance Convolution is a new system that takes as an input the raw audio files of pop songs, and produces dance routines as an output.
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Facial Recognition Software Helps Diagnose Rare Genetic Disease
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health's National Human Genome Research Institute have used facial-recognition software to diagnose a rare genetic disease...
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Stanford Researchers Adapt a Diy Robotics Kit to Give STEM Students Tools to Automate Biology Experiments
Researchers have modified a commercially available do-it-yourself kit for building and programming robots capable of transferring exact amounts of fluids between...
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This Paralyzed Man Is sing a Neuroprosthetic to Move His Arm For the First Time in Years
William Kochevar of Cleveland can slowly move his right arm and hand. No big deal—except that the 56-year-old had been paralyzed from the shoulders down since a...
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