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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Amazon's Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data
For years, the retail giant has handled your information less carefully than it handles your packages.
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What Went Wrong With Zillow? A Real Estate Algorithm Derailed Its Big Bet
Real estate firm Zillow Group had looked to its digital home-flipping business Zillow Offers to lead its growth in the future, but that will not happen.
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Can a Machine Learn Morality?
Morality is a thorny issue for machines, as scientists learned in testing Delphi, a system programmed to make moral judgments.
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The Road Ahead for Augmented Reality
A heads-up look at augmented reality head-up displays.
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What Is the Cost of Living Online?
The cost of powering streaming and other rapidly growing online services will not "take down the Internet."
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Insurers Cut Cyber Cover as Ransomware Losses Surge
Insurance firms are worried about profits as ransomware gangs become more sophisticated.
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Ford, GM Step Into Chip Business
Detroit's two biggest car companies are looking to align with computer chip makers to develop and potentially manufacture chips.
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IBM Says Quantum Chip Could Beat Standard Chips in Two Years
IBM said new techniques for building the chip eventually will produce more qubits, when combined with advances in the quantum computer's refrigeration and control...
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Ford Steps Into the Chips Business
The automaker and GlobalFoundries have agreed to develop, and potentially produce, semiconductors in U.S. under a strategic pact.
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BotenaGo Botnet Targets Millions of IoT Devices with 33 Exploits
AT&T researchers found the BotenaGo malware botnet uses 33 exploits to attack millions of routers, modems, network attached storage, and Internet of Things devices...
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'Hooking' Online Shoppers Is About More Than Popularity
New algorithms were designed to better engage online shoppers by ranking items using a combination of popularity and variety.
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Apple's Plan to Scan Handset Images Stopped Before It Started
When Apple announced its plan to scan iCloud Photos for child pornography, privacy groups were quick to condemn it.
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Visions of a U.S. Computer Chip Boom Have Cities Hustling
Many local governments see a silver lining in the shortage of semiconductor chips that has contributed to a slowdown in the global economy.
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Defense Department Issuing AI Ethics Guidelines for Tech Contractors
The controversy over Project Maven shows the department has a serious trust problem. This is an attempt to fix that.
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Apple to Launch Self-Service Repair Program
Apple noted the program is "intended for individual technicians with the knowledge and experience to repair electronic devices."
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Researchers Use AI to Create Better VR Experiences
Stanford University researchers have combined optics and artificial intelligence to improve holographic displays for virtual and augmented reality experiences. ...
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'Logic Gate' Paves Way for Nanoscale Computers To Treat Cancer and Other Diseases
The team's logic gate comprised two sensor domains designed to respond to two inputs—light and the drug rapamycin.
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Top 200 Most Common Passwords
The list of passwords was compiled in partnership with independent researchers specializing in research of cybersecurity incidents. They evaluated a 4TB database...
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Big Data Privacy for Machine Learning Just Got 100 Times Cheaper
Rice University hashing method slashes cost of implementing differential privacy.
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