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Researchers Build Tool to Help Prevent 'selfie Deaths'
A growing number of people die every year while taking photos of themselves at dangerous locations, leading researchers at Carnegie Mellon University to look for...
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Ludwig the Robot Designed to Help Alzheimer's Patients
A walking, talking robot called Ludwig is envisioned as a tool to help people suffering from Alzheimer's disease and other forms of cognitive decline.
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New Project to Watch Social Media For Signs of Mental Illness
University of Ottawa professor Diana Inkpen will receive $464,100 in funding to research "social Web mining and sentiment analysis for mental illness detection." ...
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Alberta Research Aims to Keep Information Secure
Researchers at the University of Calgary and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology recently tested a system designed to encrypt information for quantum computers...
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Risk of Cyberattacks Growing: Csis Memo
A secret memo from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) warns that the risk of cyberoffensives against government, university, and industrial computer...
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