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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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3D-Printing Human Body Parts
Bioprinting has generated bones, cartilage, and some muscles; hearts and livers are still years away.
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Digital Hearing
Advances in audio processing help separate the conversation from background noise.
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Portable Device Fears Show Power of Social Development
How do small screens impact young minds?
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Artificial Intelligence Just Made Guessing Your Password a Whole Lot Easier
Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology used artificial intelligence to generate a program that successfully guessed 27 percent of the passwords from more...
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How the Internet Kept Humming During 2 Hurricanes
At one node of the industrial backbone that keeps the internet running, employees sheltered from the worst of Hurricane Irma in a stairwell of a seven-story building...
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Infrared Signals in Surveillance Cameras Let Malware Jump Network Air Gaps
Researchers have devised malware that can jump airgaps by using the infrared capabilities of an infected network's surveillance cameras to transmit data to and...
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Conservatives, Liberals nite Against Silicon Valley
The days of unqualified praise from Washington are over for the country's biggest tech companies, whose size and power are increasingly drawing attacks from both...
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Inside the Equifax Hack
The Equifax breach, attributed to a server flaw disclosed by Cisco researchers that went unpatched, has potentially exposed an estimated 143 million Americans'...
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Treating Cancer, Stopping Violence . . . How AI Protects US
For some, the spread of artificial intelligence and robotics poses a threat to our privacy, our jobs – even our safety, as more and more tasks are handed over to...
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Fitness Trackers Could Benefit From Better Security
A security analysis of two wearable fitness trackers revealed a technique for intercepting messages transmitted between the trackers and cloud servers.
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U.s. Moves to Ban Kaspersky Software in Federal Agencies Amid Concerns of Russian Espionage
The U.S. government on Wednesday moved to ban the use of a Russian brand of security software by federal agencies amid concerns the company has ties to state-sponsored...
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Spies in Our Pockets
Electronic eavesdropping is becoming ever more nefarious in the age of smartphones and digital devices.
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Improving Web Security Without Sacrificing Performance
Researchers have developed a programming tool enabling high-performance cryptographic code to be verifiably correct and secure.
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Researchers Devise Hopeful Defense Against Credential Spear-Phishing Attacks
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and collaborators have proposed a method for detecting credential spear-phishing attacks.
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How Apple Is Bringing US Into the Age of Facial Recognition Whether We're Ready or Not
A whiff of dystopian creepiness has long wafted in the air whenever facial recognition has come up. Books, movies and television shows have portrayed the technology...
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Pacemaker Recall Exposes National Need For Research and Education in Embedded Security
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's first major recall of pacemakers due to a cybersecurity risk highlights a national need for research and education on embedded...
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Voting-Roll Vulnerability
It is relatively easy for hackers to buy enough personal information to potentially rig online voter registration information in as many as 35 states and Washington...
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Operational Limits Played Key Role in Tesla Crash on Autopilot: Ntsb
The chairman of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Tuesday "operational limitations" in the Tesla Model S played a "major role" in a May...
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Will Quantum Computers Surpass Encryption?
The fundamentally different paradigm of quantum computation will require fundamentally different security.
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