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Machines Will Soon Be Able to Imitate Human Moral Behavior
A recent study highlights the feasibility of incorporating human moral decision-making into machines.
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New Nasa Tech Kills Trespassing Drones Without Touching Them
In the most nightmarish drone scenarios, one of the little whirlybirds flies into an airliner, or wanders into military airspace, or swoops down on the White House...
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S to Create Independent Military Cyber Command
After months of delay, the Trump administration is finalizing plans to revamp the nation's military command for defensive and offensive cyber operations in hopes...
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Face Scans For S Citizens Flying Abroad Stir Privacy Issues
If the Trump administration gets its way, U.S. citizens boarding international flights will have to submit to a face scan, a plan privacy advocates call a step...
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Rare Enigma Machine Fetches 45,000 Euros at Auction
A rare Enigma machine used by Nazi Germany during World War II was sold at auction Tuesday for 45,000 euros ($51,500).
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Hackers Find 'ideal Testing Ground' For Attacks: Developing Countries
The attack had the hallmarks of something researchers had dreaded for years: malicious software using artificial intelligence that could lead to a new digital arms...
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New 3D Chip Combines Computing and Data Storage
A new computer chip integrates carbon nanotubes and resistive random-access memory cells.
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Artificial Intelligence-Based System Warns When a Gun Appears in a Video
A new artificial intelligence program automatically detects in real time when a subject in a video draws a gun.
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Detecting Forged Parts of Photographs Faster and More Accurately
Researchers say they have developed a method for detecting "copy-move forgery" in photographs that is more successful and faster than conventional methods.
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Two Giants of AI Team p to Head Off the Robot Apocalypse
There's nothing new about worrying that superintelligent machines may endanger humanity, but the idea has lately become hard to avoid.
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Peering Inside an Ai's Brain Will Help S Trust Its Decisions
Oi, AI—What do you think you're looking at? Understanding why machine learning algorithms can be tricked into seeing things that aren't there is becoming more important...
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As Elites Switch to Texting, Watchdogs Fear Loss of Transparency
In a bygone analog era, lawmakers and corporate chiefs traveled great distances to swap secrets, to the smoke-filled back rooms of the World Economic Forum in Davos...
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Study Finds Hackers Could se Brainwaves to Steal Passwords
A recent study suggests brainwave-sensing electroencephalograph headsets need better security.
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Conference Organizers Say .s. Travel Ban Not A Disaster – Yet
Travel restrictions appear to have had minimal impact on conference attendance so far.
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By Teaching Computers to Track Asteroids, w Scientists May Save the Earth
Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) are participating in a project to track asteroids so collisions with Earth can be predicted and averted.
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Researchers Crack 1024-Bit Rsa Encryption in Gnupg Crypto Library
A team of researchers found that the "left-to-right sliding window" method used by the libgcrypt library for carrying out the mathematics of cryptography leaks...
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The Hidden Signs that Can Reveal a Fake Photo
Take a look at the photograph below; it's just an ordinary picture of two people outside a building, right? One of them appears to be handing something to the other...
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sing Neural Nets to Snag Malware Before It Strikes
A $450,000 grant will support the development of an artificial intelligence system that can detect software bugs and security attacks in computer systems before...
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New Girl Scout Badges Focus on Cybercrime, Not Cookie Sales
The goal is to prevent cyber attacks and restore trust in digital operations.
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