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Facebook Disables Accounts Tied to NYU Research Project
Facebook disabled the personal accounts of New York University scientists studying political ads on the social network, alleging their extraction of data violates...
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Security Flaws Found in Popular EV Chargers
Analysts have identified flaws in the application programming interfaces of six home electric vehicle (EV) charging brands, as well as the Chargepoint public EV...
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Researchers Say They've Found a Wildly Successful Bypass for Face Recognition Tech
Computer scientists at Israel's Tel Aviv University (TAU) say they have developed a method for circumventing a large number of facial recognition systems.
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Apple is Prying into iPhones to Find Sexual Predators
Privacy activists worry governments could weaponize the feature.
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Best Jobs at the Olympics: Robot
Unlike other Olympic employees who clearly have been instructed to blend into the background of the events with which they're assisting, you command the spotlight...
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L'Oréal's New Digital Chief Takes Cosmetics Virtual
Asmita Dubey is exploring how online games, augmented reality and social media can help the French cosmetics company reach new demographics.
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U.S. Taps Tech Giants to Help Fight Ransomware, Cyberattacks
The Department of Homeland Security enlists Amazon, Microsoft, Google and others to help combat cyberthreats.
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NYC Brain Computer Startup Announces FDA Trial Before Elon Musk
New York City-based brain-computer interface startup Synchron said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized human clinical trials for its commercial...
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Microsoft Warns Over Unusual Malware That Targets Windows, Linux
Microsoft security researchers are warning customers about the LemonDuck crypto-mining malware that attacks Windows and Linux systems.
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Kitchen Robot in Riga Cooks Up Fast Food Future
A kitchen robot has been preparing fast food at the Roboeatz cafe in Riga, Latvia, while diners watch since January 2018.
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Predicting Preterm Birth
Can machine learning provide advance notice of an extreme preterm birth, in sufficient time to implement a therapeutic intervention?
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Oregon Examines Spyware Investment amid Controversy
The Oregon state employee pension fund is one of the largest investors, if not the largest, in a private equity firm that has majority ownership of NSO Group, the...
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This New Way to Train AI Could Curb Online Harassment
Researchers in Denmark tried a new approach to training artificial intelligence: hiring people full-time to review and label posts for training, instead of relying...
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Killer Robots Need 'No New Rules' about Firing on Humans, Russia tells U.N.
Moscow is 'out on its own' as other nations seek to prevent autonomous weapons making their own decisions and 'deciding who lives or dies'.
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Robot Apocalypse Hard to Find in America's Small, Mid-Sized Factories
Although analysts have warned that millions of blue-collar jobs in the U.S. industrial heartland will soon be displaced by robots, that is not yet the case at small...
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AI Carpenter Can Recreate Furniture From Photos
An algorithm developed by University of Washington researchers can render photos of wooden objects into three-dimensional models with enough detail to be replicated...
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Do You Hear What I Hear? A Cyberattack.
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have designed a method of making abnormal network traffic audible by rendering cybersecurity data musically.
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Using Satellite Images to Improve Human Lives
Researchers have developed a machine learning system that aims to make geospatial data more accessible to researchers and governments around the world.
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$49 Malware Receives Major Upgrade to Strike Windows, macOS PCs
Researchers at Check Point Research said the Windows-based malware variant known as Formbook has been upgraded to infiltrate Mac computers.
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