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Outdated Password Practices are Widespread
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Outdated Password Practices are Widespread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.

Multi-Algorithm Approach Helps Deliver Personalized Medicine for Cancer Patients
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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.

Control System Helps Several Drones Team Up to Deliver Heavy Packages
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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.

Hackers Could Use Connected Cars to Gridlock Whole Cities
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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...

Vibration-Powered Robots Are the Size of the World's Smallest Ant
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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.

Control System Simulator Helps Operators Learn to Fight Hackers
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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.

Handheld Testing: New Application For Iphone May Support Monitoring and Research on Parkinson's Disease
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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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