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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Electric Grid Protection Through Low-Cost Sensors, Machine Learning
Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a cost-effective method for detecting power-grid attacks on the fly.
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White House Issues Quantum Computing Strategy and Hosts Public-Private Summit
Federal officials and industry leaders on Monday convened at a White House summit to brainstorm new quantum information science projects.
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Financial Services Firms Battle Cyberthreats
The growing number of cybercrimes, combined with a shortage of cybersecurity professionals, means the financial services sector faces higher security costs, greater...
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.S. Election System Security Still Vexing
There appears to be no standard approach among the state and local jurisdictions that will administer the next election.
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U.S. Tech Giants Eye AI Key to Unlock China Push
U.S. technology giants, facing tighter content rules in China and the threat of a trade war, are targeting an easier way into the world's second largest economy—artificial...
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Crispr's Epic Patent Fight Changed the Course of Biology
After three bitter years and tens of millions of dollars in legal fees, the epic battle over who owns one of the most common methods for editing the DNA in any...
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Making Computer Science Accessible
The CSforAll initiative introduced an accessibility pledge to encourage companies and schools to eliminate some of the obstacles to computer science that disabled...
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Preventing Exfiltration of Sensitive Docs by Flooding Systems With Hard-to-Detect Fakes
Researchers have proposed protecting important documents by generating so many believable fakes that attackers must either exfiltrate them all or attempt to find...
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Post Net Neutrality, Internet Providers Are Slowing Down Your Streaming
Researchers have found that Internet service providers are "giving a fixed amount of bandwidth...to video traffic, but they don't impose these limits on other network...
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Deep Learning: Is It Approaching a Wall?
As with all major technologies in their early phases, deep learning must overcome a number of serious challenges.
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What’s in the Sweeping Copyright Bill Just Passed by the European Parliament
Legislation now goes to a three-way negotiation within the EU.
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Deepfakes Are a Threat to National Security, Say Lawmakers
Deepfakes are a deep concern for Congress.
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Taking Machine Thinking Out of the Black Box
Researchers are using two main approaches to replacing black-box machine learning models with prediction methods that are more transparent.
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How Faking Videos Became Easy and Why That's So Scary
A minute-long video of Barack Obama has been seen more than 4.8 million times since April. It shows the former U.S. president seated, with the American flag in...
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How Game Apps That Captivate Kids Have Been Collecting Their Data
Before Kim Slingerland downloaded the Fun Kid Racing app for her then-5-year-old son, Shane, she checked to make sure it was in the family section of the Google...
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A W Professor Argued that Women Don’t Want to Code. What do Women Computer Scientists Have to Say?
Six women computer scientists from the University of Washington respond to an essay about why women don't pursue computer science as often as men.
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For Safety’s Sake, We Must Slow Innovation in Internet-connected Things
That's the view of security expert Bruce Schneier, who fears lives will be lost in a cyber disaster unless governments act swiftly.
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How AI Changed Organ Donation in the .S.
Paired kidney donation is one of the great success stories of artificial intelligence.
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How AI Technology Can Tame the Scientific Literature
When computer scientist Christian Berger's team sought to get its project about self-driving vehicle algorithms on the road, it faced a daunting obstacle.
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