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Researchers Want to Achieve Machine Translation of the 24 Languages of the Eu
Saarland University researchers are developing an automated system for translating between the languages of the European Union.
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Extortion Extinction: Researchers Develop a Way to Stop Ransomware
University of Florida researchers have developed a system they say can thwart ransomware.
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Computer Hackers Don't Stand a Chance Against These Girls
The GenCyber program consists of 119 summer camps for girls sponsored by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Academy of Sciences.
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The Code That Took America to the Moon Was Just Published to Github
The flight software for the Apollo 11 space program last week was uploaded to the GitHub code-sharing website.
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Olcf Expands Data Analytics Capability With Popular Programming Language
Users at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility are able to use R data analytics software to manage and analyze enormous datasets generated by supercomputers...
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Nmsu Team Wins International Competition For Software to Help Emergency Responders
Competitors in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Icehouse Challenge were tasked with creating software for emergency responders.
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How to Stay Anonymous Online
Anonymity networks protect people living under repressive regimes from surveillance of their Internet use. But the recent discovery of vulnerabilities in the most...
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How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Warn S of Another Dallas
As the country reels from the spasm of gun violence that killed two black men and five police officers this week, a prominent digital vigilante is using an online...
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Artificial Intelligence Is Setting p the Internet For a Huge Clash With Europe
Neural networks are changing the Internet.
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If a Driverless Car Goes Bad We May Never Know Why
Two recent accidents involving Tesla's Autopilot system may raise questions about how computer systems based on learning should be validated and investigated when...
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Microsoft's Project Malmo Public Release Brings AI to Minecraft
Microsoft announced the open source code underlying its Project Malmo is now publicly available, enabling artificial intelligence experimentation by Minecraft users...
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Boston Is Nation's Top Tech-Talent Exporter
The U.S. technology worker population currently totals 4.8 million, according to CBRE's 2016 Scoring Tech Talent report.
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Eu Researchers Saw Brexit Coming
The European Union-funded SENSEI project accurately anticipated Britain's Brexit decision based on analysis of more than 6 million social media conversations.
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se of Police Robot to Kill Dallas Shooting Suspect Believed to Be First in S History
For what experts are calling the first time in history, US police have used a robot in a show of lethal force.
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Eu Plans $2b Investment in Cybersecurity Research
The European Union is contributing $500 million to fund research into cybersecurity, and is asking the private sector to contribute an additional $1.5 billion.
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Robot Eyes and Humans Fix on Different Things to Decode a Scene
Researchers are determining the differences between human minds and artificial intelligence-based machines by mapping human and AI visual attention.
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Are Face Recognition Systems Accurate? Depends on Your Race
The U.S. Government Accountability Office issued a report finding the Federal Bureau of Investigation has not properly tested the accuracy of its face-matching...
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Makers of Self-Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature
The push by some automakers to make fully autonomous vehicles a commercial reality is being tempered by others arguing against elimination of human driver intervention...
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