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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Lawmakers Put Pentagon's Cyber in Their Sights
Congress has a new rising target when it comes to cyber: The Pentagon.
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The Rise of the Robot Reporter
As reporters and editors find themselves the victims of layoffs at digital publishers and traditional newspaper chains alike, journalism generated by machine is...
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5 Reasons Why Autonomous Cars Aren't Coming Anytime Soon
In the world of autonomous vehicles, Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley are bustling hubs of development and testing. But ask those involved in self-driving vehicles...
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How Machine Learning Could Keep Dangerous DNA Out of Terrorists' Hands
Biologists the world over routinely pay companies to synthesize snippets of DNA for use in the laboratory or clinic.
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Digital Design, QB Investments Could Aid Football Helmets
Major football helmet manufacturers are funding and refining new digitally designed models with enhanced safety features.
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tah Tech Leaders Throw Down $5M Education Gauntlet at Silicon Slopes Summit
Five leaders each offer $1 million to match legislative funding for computer science in a first-of-its-kind program.
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Deep Learning 'Godfather' Bengio Worries About China's se of AI
Yoshua Bengio, a Canadian computer scientist who helped pioneer the techniques underpinning much of the current excitement around artificial intelligence, is worried...
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IBM Facial Recognition Dataset Aims to Remove Gender, Skin Bias
IBM will provide a new million-image dataset to the global research community, to help developers eliminate gender and skin-type biases from facial recognition...
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Apple Exerts Power as Privacy Protector
Apple has penalized Google and Facebook for violating its developer policies controlling personal data by suspending internal apps used by both companies.
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Want to Squelch Fake News? Let Readers Take Charge
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers demonstrated that crowdsourced judgments about the quality of news sources can marginalize online misinformation...
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Inside Google's Team Fighting to Keep Your Data Safe From Hackers
Google's Threat Analysis Group is an in-house counterespionage unit committed to keeping sensitive online information safe from hackers and spies.
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Crawling Inside Hard Drives
Digital forensics seeks evidence in stored digital information; it's not as easy as it sounds.
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The Pentagon's Cybersecurity Is Falling Behind
The Pentagon warns the U.S. military's cybersecurity capabilities are not advancing with sufficient speed to head off an "onslaught of multipronged" attacks by...
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Iran Inches Closer to nveiling State-Backed Cryptocurrency
Iran is moving toward launching a state-backed cryptocurrency.
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Security Flaws Found in 26 Low-End Cryptocurrencies
Researchers have discovered two security flaws that impact 26 Proof of Stake cryptocurrencies.
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Too Few Cybersecurity Professionals Is Gigantic Problem for 2019
Cybersecurity professionals are in short supply, presenting a serious problem as a wave of cyber-attacks is expected this year.
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Huawei Is Blocked in .S., But Its Chips Power Cameras Everywhere
Pelco, a California-based security camera maker, set lofty sales targets last year for a model with sharper video resolution and other cutting-edge features. That...
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How the Government Shutdown Is Flushing Away Federal Cyber-Talent
The US Federal government is in the midst of the longest gap in funding for many of its agencies in history. As the "shutdown" extends into a second month, the...
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Will People Ditch Cash for Cryptocurrency? Japan Is About to Find Out
Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe wants 40% of payments in that country to be cashless by 2025.
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