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This AI Software Can Tell If You're at Risk From Cancer Before Symptoms Appear
Artificial intelligence software developed by researchers at the Houston Methodist Research Institute in Texas can accurately predict breast cancer risk.
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The Shadow Brokers Mess Is What Happens When the Nsa Hoards Zero-Days
When the NSA discovers a new method of hacking into a piece of software or hardware, it faces a dilemma.
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A New Wireless Hack Can Unlock 100 Million Volkswagens
In 2013, when University of Birmingham computer scientist Flavio Garcia and a team of researchers were preparing to reveal a vulnerability that allowed them todelayed...
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Martians Might Be Real. That Makes Mars Exploration Way More Complicated
History will note that the guy who discovered liquid water on Mars was an undergraduate at the University of Arizona, a 20-year-old who played guitar in a death...
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America's Electronic Voting Machines Are Scarily Easy Targets
This week, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump openly speculated that this election would be "rigged." Last month, Russia decided to take an active role in...
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How To Fool AI Into Seeing Something That Isn't There
Our machines are littered with security holes, because programmers are human.
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Europe Is Going After Google Hard, and Google May Not Win
Microsoft pulled the strings. At least, that’s what Google and so many business and tech journalists said when the search giant first faced antitrust complaints...
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Apple's New App Will Teach the Next Generation How to Code
Apple's new Swift Playgrounds iPad application is designed to teach novices how to code, using the Swift programming language with their mobile devices.
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Clever Tool Shields Your Car From Hacks By Watching Its Internal Clocks
Car-hacking demonstrations tend to get all the glory in the security research community—remotely paralyzing a Jeep on the highway or cutting a Corvette’s brakes...
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Artificial Intelligence Is Setting p the Internet For a Huge Clash With Europe
Neural networks are changing the Internet.
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Google Tests New Crypto in Chrome to Fend Off Quantum Attacks
For anyone who cares about Internet security and encryption, the advent of practical quantum computing looms like the Y2K bug in the 1990s: a countdown to an unpredictable...
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Clever Attack ses the Sound of a Computer's Fan to Steal Data
In the past two years a group of researchers in Israel has become highly adept at stealing data from air-gapped computers—those machines prized by hackers that,...
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China's New Supercomputer Puts the S Even Further Behind
This week, China's Sunway TaihuLight officially became the fastest supercomputer in the world. The previous champ? Also from China.
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The Quest to Make Code Work Like Biology Just Took A Big Step
In the early 1970s, at Silicon Valley's Xerox PARC, Alan Kay envisioned computer software as something akin to a biological system, a vast collection of small cells...
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Self-Driving Cars Will Teach Themselves to Save Lives—but Also Take Them
If you follow the ongoing creation of self-driving cars, then you probably know about the classic thought experiment called the Trolley Problem.
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Parking a Truck Is a Pain in the Butt. Tech to the Rescue!
University of Minnesota researchers are developing a system that monitors parking lots and provides a real-time count of spaces for truck drivers.
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Google's Training Its AI to Be Android's Security Guard
Google's Adrian Ludwig says computer security should manage risk so it can learn to spot potential vulnerabilities on the fly using deep neural networks.
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A Car's Computer Can 'fingerprint' You in Minutes Based on How You Drive
Data collected from a car's internal computer network, or its CAN bus, can identify its driver based on driving style, a new study has found.
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The White House Is Finally Prepping For an AI-Powered Future
The White House is adamant the government must determine how to regulate and utilize artificial intelligence technology before it gets out of control.
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