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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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Your Loved Ones, and Eerie Tom Cruise Videos, Reanimate Unease With Deepfakes
A tool that allows old photographs to be animated, and viral videos of a Tom Cruise impersonation, shined new light on digital impersonations.
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Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals
Hackers say they have compromised data from as many as 150,000 surveillance cameras, including footage from electric vehicle company Tesla.
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Magnetic Boost Helps to Squeeze More Data Onto Computer Hard Disks
A short-term technology may help clear a path toward next-generation computer hard disks by utilizing microwaves with existing platter material.
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Facebook Researchers Report Advance in Computer Vision
A software toolkit developed by Facebook's artificial intelligence research arm could enable companies to create computer vision software more quickly.
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White House Cites 'Active Threat,' Urges Action Despite Microsoft Patch
The White House has advised computer network operators to further efforts to determine whether their systems were targeted by an attack on Microsoft's Outlook email...
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A.I. Here, There, Everywhere
Many of us already live with artificial intelligence now, but researchers say interactions with the technology will become increasingly personalized.
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Japanese Smart City Offers Residents Quake, Privacy Protection
After the 2011 earthquake, local governments have partnered with companies and researchers to improve residents' lives
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Honda Launches Advanced Self-Driving Cars in Japan
Japanese automaker Honda has launched a limited roll-out of its new Legend, which it calls the most advanced driverless vehicle licensed for the road, in Japan....
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Ghana Using Drones to Deliver Coronavirus Vaccines to Rural Communities
San Francisco-based startup Zipline is delivering coronavirus vaccines to rural communities in Ghana via autonomous drones.
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The Robots Are Coming for Phil in Accounting
Many U.S. companies are adopting software to perform tasks that previously involved teams of employees, and white-collar workers are concerned.
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How a 10-Second Video Clip Sold for $6.6 Million
Art collector Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile, who bought a 10-second video clip for $67,000 even though it was freely available to watch, recently sold it for $6.6 million...
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Google to Stop Tracking Users for Targeted Ads
Google says it will no longer track users across Internet searches to sell targeted advertising, and will not build alternative user-tracking models.
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CVS, Walgreens Look for Big Data Reward From Covid-19 Vaccinations
Pharmacy chains including CVS Health, Walmart, and Walgreens-Boots Alliance are collecting data from customers as they sign up for coronavirus vaccinations.
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Way Beyond AlphaZero: Berkeley, Google Work Shows Robotics May Be Deepest Machine Learning of All
A new report found that the hardest and perhaps most promising work of deep learning may lie in the realm of robotics,
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The Bitcoin Blockchain Is Helping Keep a Botnet From Being Taken Down
Researchers found that a botnet they have been following disguised one of its IP addresses in the bitcoin blockchain to guard against a command-and-control server...
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AI Smashes Videogame High Scores by Remembering Its Past Success
Artificial intelligence has achieved record high scores on videogames played on classic Atari consoles, by recalling previous successes.
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China Charges Ahead with National Digital Currency
China is forging ahead with a national digital currency called the electronic Chinese yuan (eCNY).
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Could Mobile Voting Ring True?
Voting on smartphones could result in higher voter turnouts.
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Quantum Internet Closer to Reality, Thanks to This Switch
Engineers have overcome an obstacle to the development of a quantum Internet with a programmable switch.
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