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Banks Tiptoe Toward Their Cloud-Based Future
Cloud computing is slowly changing how Wall Street banks handle their business, but concerns with security remain.
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Former Facebook Executive Pushes to Open Social Media's 'Black Boxes'
The co-founder of CrowdTangle has been working with Congress on legislation to make tech companies disclose their inner workings.
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MTG Hit with Facebook Suspension After Twitter Ban
"Facebook has joined Twitter in censoring me," Greene (R-GA) wrote on Gettr, a social media platform favored by some right-wing conservatives.
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Minnesota Mathematicians, Data Scientists Use Technology to Shape Political Districts
A dozen mathematicians and data scientists claim to have used advanced computational technology to generate fair political redistricting maps for Minnesota.
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China Aims to Be a World Robot Champion by 2025
China has unveiled a five-year plan to become a global leader in automated manufacturing by realizing 20% minimum annual growth in robotics sales and doubling its...
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Creating Text Out of Thin Air
Researchers at China's Zhejiang University have developed a smartwatch application in which users write text in mid-air with a finger, and the text is captured...
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Desperate for Workers, MGM Resorts Lets Applicants Role Play With VR
MGM Resorts will adopt virtual reality headsets that allow job applicants to experience various customer-service roles before making a decision.
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Large-Scale Phishing Study Shows Who Bites the Bait More Often
Researchers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich found that study participants aged 18-19 and those aged 50-59 are most likely to click on phishing links.
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Human Induced Cells Grown in Petri Dish Learn to Play Pong Faster Than AI
Researchers at Cortical Labs in Australia demonstrated that human-induced neurons grown in a petri dish can be taught to play the retro videogame Pong in only five...
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Using Sparse Data to Predict Lab Quakes
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a machine learning approach that can predict fault slip in laboratory earthquakes with reliability...
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How Fast Can Quantum Computers Process Information?
Physicists at Germany's University of Bonn and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have investigated the determinants of quantum-computer information processing...
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Robotic Inchworm Climbs to Higher Ground
Researchers at China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University have developed a robot that moves like an inchworm and can make its way between horizontal and vertical planes...
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Walk-Through Metal Detectors Can Be Hacked, Research Finds
Researchers at Cisco Talos have identified nine software vulnerabilities in commonly used metal detectors manufactured by Garrett.
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Machine Learning Framework Models Quantum Devices
An algorithm developed by researchers at the University of Tokyo uses machine learning to determine the relationship between quantum inputs and outputs in order...
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'Pop-Up' Electronic Sensors Could Detect When Heart Cells Misbehave
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a tool that monitors the electrical activity inside heart cells using tiny "pop-up" sensors that...
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Toyota Gives Robots a Soft Touch, Better Vision
Researchers at the Toyota Research Institute have developed a soft touch sensing gripper that helps robots determine the right amount of force to grip and help...
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Homeland Security Offers Hackers a Bounty to Find Bugs
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced the "Hack DHS" bug bounty program in which outside hackers will be paid to identify vulnerabilities in certain...
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Levi's AI Chief Says Algorithms Have Helped Boost Revenue
Artificial intelligence and a data repository built on Google Cloud have helped Levi Strauss & Co. improve revenue and profitability, says chief strategy and AI...
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IT Security: Computer Attacks With Laser Light
Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the Technical University of Braunschweig, and the Technical University of Berlin demonstrated that physically...
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