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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Hackers Rigged Hundreds of Ecommerce Sites to Steal Payment Info
The attackers exploited a known vulnerability and installed credit card skimmers on more than 500 websites.
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New Database Reveals How Much Humans Are Messing With Evolution
Some animals and plants are rapidly adapting to our warming, polluted world. How alarming that is depends on your perspective.
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Safari Flaws Exposed Webcams, Online Accounts, More
Apple awarded a $100,500 bug bounty to the researcher who discovered the latest major vulnerability in its browser.
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When Mind Melds With Machine, Who's in Control?
Brain-computer interfaces are getting better all the time—and they're about to land us in a philosophical quagmire.
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The Future of Robot Nannies
A machine can't love our children, but our children might love them.
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See Little Robots Get Swole in This Virtual 'Gym'
The bizarre robots look like cobbled-together Tetris pieces. A new system "evolves" them to run, climb, and throw stuff better.
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The Movement to Hold AI Accountable Gains More Steam
A New York City law requires algorithms used in hiring to be "audited" for bias. It's the first in the US—and part of a larger push toward regulation.
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Renewable Energy Is Great—but the Grid Can Slow It Down
Many solar and wind projects face a problem: getting the energy from where it's made to where it's needed.
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AI Finds Superbug-Killing Potential in Human Proteins
A team scoured the human proteome for antimicrobial molecules and found thousands, plus a surprise about how animals evolved to fight infections.
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Meet the Cyberpunk Albatrosses Scanning for Secret Explosions
Acoustic waves can detect all kinds of explosions and volcanic activity, but it's hard to place sensors at sea—unless you've got a bird with a backpack.
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Robots Won't Close the Warehouse Worker Gap Anytime Soon
Even Amazon's new AI-powered machines aren't nearly capable enough to handle the most important fulfillment tasks.
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Amazon's Dark Secret: It Has Failed to Protect Your Data
For years, the retail giant has handled your information less carefully than it handles your packages.
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Another Intel Chip Flaw Puts a Slew of Gadgets at Risk
The vulnerability allows an attacker with physical access to the CPU to bypass the security measures protecting some of its most sensitive data.
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This Group Pushed More AI in US Security—and Boosted Big Tech
The National Security Commission on AI included members from Oracle, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. Some of its recommendations are already federal law.
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Companies Are Rushing to Use AI—But Few See a Payoff
A study finds that only 11% of firms that have deployed artificial intelligence are reaping a "sizable" return on their investments.
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How to Fix Facebook, According to Facebook Employees
Internal research documents provide a blueprint for solving the company's biggest problems.
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A Look Inside Apple's Silicon Playbook
Plus: The infamous 2016 Macbook Pro, Gödel's ontological proof, and a mascot's moment of weakness.
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Virtual Obstacle Courses Help Real Robots Learn to Walk
Researchers developed an army of more than 4,000 simulated doglike robots and used them to train an algorithm to control a real-world robot's legs.
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AI's Smarts Now Come With a Big Price Tag
As language models get more complex, they also get more expensive to create and run. Some companies are locked out.
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