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Typing While Skyping Could Compromise Privacy
Researchers have found a security breach in which keystroke sounds can be recorded during a Skype voice or video call and later reassembled as text.
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AI Experts Weigh in on the White House Approach to Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence experts stress the need for clarity around certain economic and safety ramifications of artificial intelligence technologies.
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Chinese Researchers Develop Algorithms For Smart Energy Grid
Scientists at Northeastern University in China have proposed a way to distribute energy similarly to how the Internet operates.
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Webcams sed to Attack Reddit and Twitter Recalled
Chinese electronics firm Hangzhou Xiongmai issued the recall soon after its cameras were identified as aiding the massive web attacks.
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Icy Heart Could Be Key to Pluto's Strange Geology
Pluto's icy heart beats with a planetary rhythm.
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New Technique Allows Scientists to 'listen' to Proteins
Researchers have come up with a bold new method for representing and understanding a protein's shape: translating it into music.
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Designing the Future Internet
Connecting many smart objects to the Internet will result in an enormous boost in online traffic, which one researcher aims to make manageable with a network redesign...
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Wits Researchers Find Techniques to Improve Carbon Superlattices For Quantum Electronic Devices
The quantum properties of carbon-based superlattices could lead to a fundamental shift in the design and development of electronics.
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Debates: Linguistic Trick Boosts Poll Numbers
A study of U.S. presidential debates found mimicking subtle aspects of an opponent's language better engages a third-party audience and leads to a bump in the polls...
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What Iarpa Knows About Your Canceled Dinner Reservation
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is running several projects examining how crowdsourced data could be used to predict specific events.
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Here's How Young People Decide When They're Drunk 'enough,' According to Math
Mathematical models developed by engineers at Ohio State University have enabled colleagues to explain the factors that drive alcohol consumption among young people...
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A New Era of Internet Attacks Powered By Everyday Devices
When surveillance cameras began popping up in the 1970s and '80s, they were welcomed as a crime-fighting tool, then as a way to monitor traffic congestion, factory...
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The Amazing Cloud Cities We Could Build on Venus
It's hot enough to melt lead, the acid rain will scorch the flesh from your bones – and it's the perfect place to raise a family. Venus, not Mars, might be the...
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Inside Microsoft's Quest For a Topological Quantum Computer
The race is on build a "universal" quantum computer. Such a device could be programmed to speedily solve problems that classical computers cannot crack, potentially...
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In Memoriam: Calvin Carl “kelly” Gotlieb 1921-2016
Canada’s "Father of Computing" was 95.
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If Planet Nine Is Out There, It Tilts Our Solar System
Most people think the eight planets in our solar system orbit the sun along a straight plane, like a disc on a record player.
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Camera on Mars Orbiter Shows Signs of Latest Mars Lander
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has identified new markings on the surface of the Red Planet that are believed to be related to Europe's Schiaparelli test lander...
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Tech's Gender Gap Is Getting Worse, Not Better, Report Says
Unless technology companies and educators start reaching out to young women and girls, the number of women in the computer science field will drop, a new report...
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Stephen Hawking Opens British Artificial Intelligence Hub
Stephen Hawking on Wednesday opened an artificial research center at Cambridge University in the U.K.
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