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Outdated Password Practices are Widespread
Researchers say a majority of the world’s most popular websites put users and their data at risk by failing to meet minimum password requirement standards.
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Multi-Algorithm Approach Helps Deliver Personalized Medicine for Cancer Patients
Researchers used ensemble-based machine learning algorithms to forecast patients' response to cancer-fighting drugs with high accuracy.
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Control System Helps Several Drones Team Up to Deliver Heavy Packages
A new adaptive control algorithm helps unmanned aerial vehicles collaborate to deliver heavy parcels.
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Hackers Could Use Connected Cars to Gridlock Whole Cities
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have determined that hackers could target Internet-connected cars and freeze traffic, creating extremely disruptive...
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Vibration-Powered Robots Are the Size of the World's Smallest Ant
Researchers have developed tiny three-dimensionally (3D)-printed robots that move by harnessing vibrations.
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Control System Simulator Helps Operators Learn to Fight Hackers
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a simulator that helps to secure industrial control systems against hackers.
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Robot Designed to Defend Factories Against Cyberthreats
The HoneyBot is designed to deceive industrial hackers into exposing information to cybersecurity professionals.
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Warped Reality: Virtual Trip to Hyperbolic Space
Researchers have created a virtual reality program for exploring hyperbolic geometries.
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Handheld Testing: New Application For Iphone May Support Monitoring and Research on Parkinson's Disease
Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute have developed iTrem, an iPhone application designed to enable Parkinson's disease patients to use an iPhone...
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Teraflop Troubles: Powerful Gpus May Threaten the World's Password Security System
Georgia Tech Research Institute computer scientists are studying whether desktop computers with graphics processing units are so powerful that they compromise password...
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