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Air Force Tests Ibm's Brain-Inspired Chip as an Aerial Tank Spotter
Satellites, aircraft, and growing numbers of drones—the U.S. Air Force has a lot of electronic eyes in the sky.
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The Many-Moons Theory
Unbeknownst to most earthlings, the moon is experiencing a crisis.
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Finding Trust and Understanding in Autonomous Technologies
Whether autonomous technologies become truly ubiquitous will depend on how much they can be trusted.
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Additive Manufacturing: A New Twist For Stretchable Electronics?
Missouri University of Science & Technology researchers are studying electronic components that can be elongated or twisted, which could soon be used to power a...
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Utsa Study Shows How Phishing Scams Thrive on Overconfidence
University of Texas at San Antonio researchers have examined overconfidence in detecting phishing emails, based on the theory that most people believe they are...
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Vr Trauma Surgery 101: Going For the Grisly
Medical students experience the controlled chaos of trauma surgery, virtually.
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'transfer Learning' Jump-Starts New AI Projects
Abstracting and reusing knowledge gleaned from a machine-learning application in other, newer apps--or "transfer learning"--is supplementing other learning methods...
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Hubble Provides Interstellar Road Map For Voyagers' Galactic Trek
NASA's two Voyager spacecraft are hurtling through unexplored territory on their road trip beyond our solar system.
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Data Could Be the Next Tech Hot Button For Regulators
Wealth and influence in the technology business have always been about gaining the upper hand in software or the machines that software ran on.
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Transistor Stretchier Than Skin For ltra-Flexible Wearable Tech
Stanford University researchers have developed a new transistor that can be stretched to twice its length without losing conductivity, making it well-suited for...
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ltrasound Tracking Could Be sed to Deanonymize Tor sers
Ultrasounds emitted by ads or JavaScript code hidden on a page accessed through the Tor Browser can deanonymize Tor users by making nearby phones or computers send...
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Attackers Can Make It Impossible to Dial 911
A new cyberattack strategy can block access to 911 emergency services by exploiting vulnerabilities in the system.
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Caring Cyborgs
Social robots designed to interact with people could act as caregivers for the elderly and children, but current models struggle to understand and mimic the subtleties...
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Back to Self-Driving School: The Simulator Teaching Vehicle Ais Road Sense
Researchers have developed a simulator employing convolutional neural networks and deep learning to enhance how vehicle artificial intelligence systems manage environmental...
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Coming From Automakers: Voice Control That Understands You Better
Every once in a while, just for laughs, Kevin Smith-Fagan tries to call a friend of his, Priscilla, using the voice-recognition system in his 2013 Chevrolet Volt...
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Pcast Releases Report on Ensuring .s. Leadership in Semiconductors
The Computing Research Association has been involved in shaping public policy of relevance to computing research for more than two decades.
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New Camera Can See Around Corners
In the last few years, single-pixel cameras have begun to revolutionize the field of imaging.
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Complexity Theory Problem Strikes Back
The legendary graph isomorphism problem may be harder than a 2015 result seemed to suggest.
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