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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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AI, Drones, 4K Cameras: New Tech Boosts Security Systems in Japan
Shortages of security personnel in Japan have prompted adoption of technologies such as artificial intelligence, drones, and 4K video cameras.
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Kazakhstan Spies on Citizens' HTTPS Traffic; Browser-Makers Fight Back
Google, Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft are partnering to stop Kazakhstan's government from decrypting and reading HTTPS-encrypted traffic between citizens and...
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Social Work Faculty Uses AI to Fight Substance Abuse in Youth Experiencing Homelessness
The University of Pittsburgh recently received an $8-million+ National Institutes of Health grant to develop brain-computer interfaces.
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To the Brain, Reading Computer Code Is Not the Same as Reading Language
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts University neuroscientists have found that reading computer code activates different brain regions than reading...
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A Touch of Reality
The field of haptics—the use of technology to simulate touch, feeling, and motion—is finally hitting its stride.
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City Researchers Reveal Link Between Coding of Cryptocurrencies and Their Market Behavior
A connection between the coding of cryptocurrencies and their market behavior has been identified by researchers at the U.K.'s City University of London.
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Social Work Faculty Uses AI to Fight Substance Abuse in Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Researchers studied more than 1,600 youths and used algorithms and machine learning tto determine how and when to intervene with regard to substance use disorder...
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Google's Antitrust Cases: A Guide for the Perplexed
The company is facing multiple lawsuits from the U.S. Department of Justice and three dozen states.
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Microsoft: 2021 is the Year Passwords Die
The software giant has highlighted the strides it made to kill off passwords in 2020, and has stated that it plans to make them a thing of the past for all its...
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Coalition of the Willing Takes Aim at COVID-19
Data science can only do so much in the face of a pandemic.
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Up to 3 Million Devices Infected by Malware-Laced Chrome and Edge Add-ons
Researchers warned Wednesday that up to 3 million devices have been infiltrated by malware-impregnated Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browser extensions that...
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Tiny Quantum Computer Solves Real Optimization Problem
Researchers showed that a small but well-functioning quantum computer was able to solve a small portion of a real logistics problem in the aviation industry.
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The Gig Workers Taking Action to Regain Control of Their Data
Complaints against ride-hailing company Uber bring the issue of gig workers' data rights into sharp relief.
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Scientists Decode Neural Mechanisms of Computer Programming
Johns Hopkins University scientists mapped computer programmers' brain activity during coding exercises to uncover the underlying neural processes.
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AI Can Predict Twitter Users Likely to Spread Disinformation Before They Do It
Artificial intelligence predicted the likelihood of Twitter users spreading disinformation, using natural language processing techniques to analyze about 1 million...
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Making Data-Informed Covid-19 Testing Plans
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a Web-based Covid-19 testing impact calculator.
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Vaccinated? Show Us Your App
Recipients of the Covid-19 vaccine may eventually be given digital health credentials in order to travel, go to work or school, visit entertainment venues, and...
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Deere's Farm Version of Facial Recognition Coming to Fields in 2021
Agriculture giant Deere & Co. plans to roll out a system next summer that combines machine vision and machine learning to improve the identification of individual...
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