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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Can Software Predict Crime? Maybe So, but No Better Than a Human
Can you predict a crime?
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A New Way to Track Down Bugs Could Help Save Iot
On a clear day this summer, security researcher Ang Cui boarded a boat headed to a government biosafety facility off the northeastern tip of Long Island.
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Kettering University Students Converting Chevy Bolt Into Autonomous Vehicle
Kettering University researchers are participating in the AutoDrive Challenge, in which teams convert a Chevrolet Bolt into a Level 4 autonomous vehicle.
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c Riverside Research Will Help Protect Military Software From Hackers
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside say they are trying to protect important but outdated computers and software still in use by securing legacy...
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Why Is It Difficult For the Fbi to Break Into Smartphones?
Turing Laureate Whitfield Diffie explains why the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is unable to break the encryption on your smartphone.
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Incorporating Social Media Reviews Can Improve Surveillance of Restaurant Health Problems
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has used a system that tracks food-borne illness via online Yelp restaurant reviews to identify instances...
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In ‘listening In,’ a Surveillance Expert Warns That No Secret Is Safe
Smartphones, smart cars, smart fridges: all are connected to the Web, and hackers and governments alike are all too eager to peer inside.
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Big Brother on Wheels: Why Your Car Company May Know More About You Than Your Spouse.
Daniel Dunn was about to sign a lease for a Honda Fit last year when a detail buried in the lengthy agreement caught his eye.
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Can We Make a Hack-Proof Internet with Quantum Physics?
Is it possible to build a network that's impossible to hack? Quantum physicists believe it might.
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This AI Hunts Poachers
Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security is an artificial intelligence program that uses machine learning algorithms to predict where poaching is likely to occur...
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Trojan Team's Bias-Busting App Wins Third Prize at Facebook Global Hackathon
Team Artemis of the University of Southern California won third prize at the 2017 Facebook Global Hackathon for a virtual reality tool designed to rid the workplace...
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A New AI That Detects 'deception' May Bring an End to Lying as We Know It
The Deception Analysis and Reasoning Engine uses artificial intelligence to autonomously detect deception in courtroom trial videos.
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China Becomes One of the Top 5 .s. Patent Recipients For the First Time
Chinese companies have increased the number of U.S. patents they've received by tenfold in less than 10 years, another sign that the world's second-largest economy...
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Fbi Chief Calls nbreakable Encryption 'urgent Public Safety Issue'
The inability of law enforcement authorities to access data from electronic devices due to powerful encryption is an "urgent public safety issue," FBI Director...
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Autonomous Construction Vehicles Are Building the Future
Self-operated construction vehicles will gain traction long before self-driving cars.
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The Real Future of Work
In 2013, Diana Borland and 129 of her colleagues filed into an auditorium at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
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Russia and Venezuela's Plan to Sidestep Sanctions: Virtual Currencies
Russian and Venezuelan officials are hoping virtual currencies can help their countries make an end run around American sanctions.
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A Critical Intel Flaw Breaks Basic Security For Most Computers
One of the most basic premises of computer security is isolation: If you run somebody else's sketchy code as an untrusted process on your machine, you should restrict...
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The Labs that Protect Against Online Warfare
Several months after the WannaCry cyber-attack, much of the world still seems to be asleep to the potential catastrophic effects of cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure...
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