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Steering a Turtle With Your Thoughts
Researchers have developed a brain-computer interface that can control a turtle using human thought.
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Aging Faces Could Increase Security Risks
Researchers are studying how facial aging affects the performance of automatic facial-recognition systems and what implications this could have on identifying criminals...
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Language Learning Robot Could Advance Autonomous Vehicles, Help Emergency Responders in the Future
Researchers have developed algorithms that enable a wheeled robot to learn the meanings of words from sentences that describe example paths taken by the robot,...
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Quantum Microscope Offers Mri For Molecules
A quantum microscope that uses a sensor built from diamonds could allow researchers to study such nanoscale mysteries as how DNA folds in a cell, why drugs work...
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Wikileaks: The CIA Is Using Popular Tvs, Smartphones and Cars to Spy on Their Owners
The latest revelations about U.S. government's powerful hacking tools potentially takes surveillance right into the homes and hip pockets of billions of users worldwide...
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Mathematician Breaks Down How to Defend Against Quantum Computing Attacks
A mathematician has created and released software that could protect encrypted code from hackers armed with next-generation quantum computers.
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Tracking the Movement of Cyborg Cockroaches
North Carolina State University's cyborg cockroaches can be remotely controlled to carry technology that could scan disaster areas and identify survivors in the...
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Google Computers Trained to Detect Cancer
Google has developed a new breast cancer detection technique that utilizes machine learning, predictive analytics, and pattern recognition to train a computer to...
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How Hard Is It to Get an Intelligence Wiretap? Pretty Hard.
Wiretaps on Americans in foreign intelligence investigations are not easy to get. And if you're a candidate for president, it's even harder.
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Modeling Gun Violence as a Contagion
Using data to try to keep people from getting shot.
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sing Game Theory to Predict Cyberattacks on Elections and Voting Machines
An algorithm based on game theory can be used to protect against efforts to tamper with election results.
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Baxter the Robot Fixes Its Mistakes By Reading Your Mind
Baxter is but a child, with bright eyes and a subtle grin.
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To Keep Tor Hack Source Code Secret, Doj Dismisses Child Porn Case
Rather than share the now-classified technological means that investigators used to locate a child porn suspect, federal prosecutors in Washington state have ...
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Artificial Data Give the Same Results as Real Data--Without Compromising Privacy
The Synthetic Data Vault is a new machine-learning system that automatically creates synthetic data, which can be used in data science efforts that otherwise would...
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Software Engineers Have Figured Out a Way to Turn Charts Into Music For the Blind
Legally blind SAS software engineer Ed Summers in February guided the company's release of a free browser plug-in that scans Web pages for graphs or charts and...
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Kids Want Parental Help With Online Risk, but Fear Parental Freak Outs
Researchers found teens rarely talked to their parents about potentially risky online experiences.
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Social Media Algorithm Says Trump 'tweets Like a Bachelor'
Researchers have developed an algorithm that predicts a user's marital status with 86% accuracy using data from Twitter, Foursquare, and Instagram.
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Singing Posters and Talking Shirts: Uw Engineers Turn Everyday Objects Into Fm Radio Stations
Researchers are enabling everyday objects to communicate directly with smartphones and car radios and transmit information to them.
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How Rival Bots Battled Their Way to Poker Supremacy
Artificial-intelligence programs harness game-theory strategies and deep learning to defeat human professionals in two-player hold'em.
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