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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The 'Weird Events' That Make Machines Hallucinate
Computers can be tricked into misidentifying objects and sounds, raising issues about the real-world use of artificial intelligence; experts call such glitches...
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Wi-Fi Could Be sed to Detect Weapons and Bombs
Wireless signals can penetrate bags to measure the dimensions of metal objects or estimate the volume of liquids, researchers claim.
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The Cameras that Know If You're Happy, or a Threat
Facial recognition tech has been around for decades, but it has been progressing in leaps and bounds in recent years due to advances in computing vision and artificial...
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Who Controls Your Data?
The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will change how companies and individuals collect, store and share data.
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The (almost) Complete History of 'fake News'
In record time, the phrase morphed from a description of a social media phenomenon into a journalistic cliche and an angry political slur.
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Psychedelic Toasters Fool Image Recognition Tech
Researchers say they have created psychedelic stickers that can fool image-recognition software into seeing objects that do not exist.
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The Labs that Protect Against Online Warfare
Several months after the WannaCry cyber-attack, much of the world still seems to be asleep to the potential catastrophic effects of cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure...
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Will Tech Firms Challenge China's 'open' Internet?
Sometimes you can gauge how proud someone is about being at an event by the extent to which they want to talk about it.
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How Do You Build the Next-Generation Internet?
Imagine super-fast computers that can solve problems much quicker than machines today.
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Treating Cancer, Stopping Violence . . . How AI Protects US
For some, the spread of artificial intelligence and robotics poses a threat to our privacy, our jobs – even our safety, as more and more tasks are handed over to...
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The Ghostly Radio Station That No One Claims to Run
In the middle of a Russian swampland, not far from the city of St Petersburg, is a rectangular iron gate.
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The Hidden Signs that Can Reveal a Fake Photo
Take a look at the photograph below; it's just an ordinary picture of two people outside a building, right? One of them appears to be handing something to the other...
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Why Printers Add Secret Tracking Dots
On 3 June, FBI agents arrived at the house of government contractor Reality Leigh Winner in Augusta, Georgia.
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How a Cyber Attack Transformed Estonia
Cyber-attacks, information warfare, fake news—exactly 10 years ago Estonia was one of the first countries to come under attack from this modern form of hybrid warfare...
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The Next Era of Drones Will Be Defined By 'swarms'
What do you picture when you think of a drone?
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Geeks V Government: The Battle Over Public Key Cryptography
Two graduate students stood silently beside a lectern, listening as their professor presented their work to a conference.
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The AI that Learns Our Habits and Knows When People Cheat
For people who play the video game Counter Strike online, it's hard enough watching your back at the best of times. In the fast-paced first-person shooter, there...
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What Trump Means For Tech
Barack Obama's policies on technology were considered pro-innovation, with a view to using technology expertise to improve government systems and services.
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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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