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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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Google, Facebook and Twitter scramble to Hold Washington at Bay
Google summoned about 200 policy staff from around the world last month for a debate on whether the company's size has made it too attractive as a target for government...
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How Computers Turned Gerrymandering Into a Science
About as many Democrats live in Wisconsin as Republicans do.
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Russians Took a Page from Corporate America By sing Facebook Tool to Id and Influence Voters
Russian operatives set up an array of misleading Web sites and social media pages to identify American voters susceptible to propaganda, then used a powerful Facebook...
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'mind-Boggling' Math Could Make Blockchain Work For Wall Street
A major breakthrough in cryptography may have solved one of the biggest obstacles to using blockchain technology on Wall Street: keeping transaction data private...
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Two Intelligent Vehicles Are Better Than One
Researchers are working to improve intelligent vehicle systems by combining the data collected by such a vehicle with that collected from other intelligent vehicles...
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Collaborative Software Development Made Easy
Sebastian Neubert, a particle physicist at Heidelberg University in Germany, leads a group studying subatomic particles called pentaquarks. The six team members...
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Umd-Led Project Awarded Nsf Grant to Study Big Data Ethics
The Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research project is using a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to study ethical issues related to user consent,...
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Russian Facebook Ads Showed a Black Woman Firing a Rifle, Amid Efforts to Stoke Racial Strife
One of the Russian-bought advertisements that Facebook shared with congressional investigators on Monday featured photographs of an armed black woman "dry firing"...
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Understanding Ethereum, Bitcoin's Virtual Cousin
Bitcoin has many cousins and competitors. None have grown more popular than Ethereum, a global computer network with its own virtual currency, called Ether.
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The Ridiculous Amount of Energy It Takes to Run Bitcoin
Keeping bitcoin running via the process of "mining" consumes a staggering amount of electricity, and experts are investigating energy-saving solutions.
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The State of Women in Computer Science
Several factors are preventing women from pursuing and persisting in computer science majors.
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As Scrutiny Of Social Networks Grows, Influence Attacks Continue In Real Time
The presidential election is long past, but online attacks aimed at shaping the U.S. information environment have kept right on coming.
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Lehigh University Engineers Create Computer Program That Is Saving the State Prison System Millions of Dollars
Researchers have developed an algorithm expected to save Pennsylvania's prison system $2.9 million annually by accelerating the process of determining where prisoners...
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Computer Science and Engineering Researcher Teams With Industry to Provide Facial Recognition Technology
A University of Texas at Arlington professor is working to evaluate existing deep-learning methods for face detection and facial recognition.
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Asu Team Takes Cyberbullying App Public
Researchers at Arizona State University have publicly released their BullyBlocker smartphone application.
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Goodbye, Login. Hello, Heart Scan
A new computer security system uses heart dimensions for identification.
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Colleges Move to Close Gender Gap in Science
U.S. colleges and universities are aggressively courting more women to pursue degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math.
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The Coming Software Apocalypse
There were six hours during the night of April 10, 2014, when the entire population of Washington State had no 911 service.
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The Drug-Maker's Guide to the Galaxy
In 2016, the pharmaceutical firm Sunovion gave a group of seasoned employees an unusual assignment.
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