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In ‘listening In,’ a Surveillance Expert Warns That No Secret Is Safe
Smartphones, smart cars, smart fridges: all are connected to the Web, and hackers and governments alike are all too eager to peer inside.
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Big Brother on Wheels: Why Your Car Company May Know More About You Than Your Spouse.
Daniel Dunn was about to sign a lease for a Honda Fit last year when a detail buried in the lengthy agreement caught his eye.
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Bbva Foundation Recognizes Goldwasser, Micali, Rivest, Shamir, For Enabling a Secure Digital Society
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies category goes to Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, Ronald Rivest...
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Making the Internet of Things Possible With a New Breed of 'memristors'
Researchers at Aalto University in Finland say they have designed and fabricated the building blocks of future components for neuromorphic computers.
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'holostream' Allows High-Quality Wireless 3D Video Communications
Holostream is a new platform enabling high-quality three-dimensional video communications on mobile devices.
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Can We Make a Hack-Proof Internet with Quantum Physics?
Is it possible to build a network that's impossible to hack? Quantum physicists believe it might.
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Nasa Space Telescopes Provide a 3D Journey Through the Orion Nebula
Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning program have combined visible and infrared vision of the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes...
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Ornl Researchers se Titan to Accelerate Design, Training of Deep-Learning Networks
Combining artificial intelligence with high-performance computing yielded a peak speed of 20 petaflops in the creation and training of deep-learning networks on...
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This AI Hunts Poachers
Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security is an artificial intelligence program that uses machine learning algorithms to predict where poaching is likely to occur...
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Student Device Detects Potholes, Car Crashes
Researchers say they have developed a device that can detect car crashes and alert emergency services.
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Trojan Team's Bias-Busting App Wins Third Prize at Facebook Global Hackathon
Team Artemis of the University of Southern California won third prize at the 2017 Facebook Global Hackathon for a virtual reality tool designed to rid the workplace...
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Expansion of Ap Computer Science Courses Draws More Girls and Minorities
The College Board's Advanced Placement computer science classes are being expanded to attract more girls and underrepresented minorities in the U.S. to participate...
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Chinese Workers Abandon Silicon Valley For Riches Back Home
A few years ago, Wang Yi was living the American dream. He had graduated from Princeton, landed a job at Google and bought a spacious condo in Silicon Valley.
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"when Performance Is Pursued Above All"
Long-overlooked CPU vulnerabilities have come to light.
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Meltdown and Spectre Expose the Dark Side of Superfast Computers
Hundreds of gadget makers and software companies at this week's annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas are staking the success of their newest products...
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Team's Lifesaving App Could Help Farmworkers Beat the Heat
Calor is a new smartphone app designed to send automatic heat warnings to farmworkers in the field.
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A New AI That Detects 'deception' May Bring an End to Lying as We Know It
The Deception Analysis and Reasoning Engine uses artificial intelligence to autonomously detect deception in courtroom trial videos.
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Scanning an Ancient Biblical Text That Humans Fear to Open
Researchers hope to make a fragile ancient Coptic codex readable by scanning it with computerized tomography and then using software to extract legible text.
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Driverless Cars Might Follow the Rules of the Road, but What About the Language of Driving?
Navigating the complexity of unspoken rules and social and linguistic cues to communicate with drivers, pedestrians, and others sharing the road is a challenge...
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