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Algorithms in the Courtroom
The use of software to determine bail and sentencing terms has gone mainstream. How fair are these systems?
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Toward Computers That Teach Themselves
The artificial intelligence industry is experiencing a supervised learning revolution, as researchers teach computers to recognize patterns and learn from them....
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Companies Seek to Pool Medical Records to Create Coronavirus Patient Registry
Software and healthcare companies are seeking to create a registry of COVID-19 patients by gathering medical records from across the country.
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Machine Learning Reveals New Candidate Materials for Biocompatible Electronics
New machine learning tools can screen self-assembled peptides in an effort to develop electronic devices that are compatible with the human body.
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NASA Created a Game That Lets You Help Map the Ocean's Coral Reefs
A new game can help map the ocean's diversity of coral reefs.
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AI Techniques Used to Improve Battery Health, Safety
A new machine learning method can predict battery health with 10 times greater accuracy than the current industry standard.
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UC Berkeley's AI-Powered Robot Teaches Itself to Drive Off-Road
A new robot learning system can learn about the environment through its own experiences in the real world.
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Supercomputing Future Wind Power Rise
Cornell University researchers used supercomputers to project scenarios for expanding U.S. wind power capacity.
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Kraus Named 2020-2021 ACM Athena Lecturer
The Bar-Ilan University professor is a world leader in Multi-agent Systems, Automated Negotiation.
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Artificial Intelligence is Evolving All by Itself
Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving—literally.
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How You'll Get Apple and Google's Contact Tracing Update for Your Phone
The tech giants say everyone will get access to the framework for tracking tools, regardless of which version of iOS or Android they use. Not everyone is convinced...
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Internet Voting is Not the Solution to the Coronavirus Election Challenge
The scientific evidence is clear: Security risks pose threat to free and fair elections
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Google, UCSF Collaborate on Machine Learning Tool to Help Prevent Harmful Prescription Errors
A new machine learning model predicts normal physician drug prescribing patterns, using a patient's electronic health records as input.
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Docker Servers Targeted by Kinsing Malware Campaign
Over the past few months, a malware campaign has been scanning the Internet for Docker servers running API ports exposed without a password.
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Give Tax Time Phishing Attacks the Slip
Learning how to recognize tax-time email scams can help taxpayers and businesspeople avoid them.
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In Memoriam: John Horton Conway 1937-2020
Conway worked on the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory, coding theory, and even recreational mathematics.
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DeepMind AI Can Understand the Unusual Atomic Structure of Glass
DeepMind researchers used machine learning to simulate how atomic particles in a piece of glass respond to different temperatures and pressures.
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Linux Security: Chinese State Hackers May Have Compromised 'Holy Grail' Targets Since 2012
A BlackBerry research and intelligence team said five Chinese advanced persistent threat groups have long been attacking Linux servers.
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Mirror Arrays Make Augmented Reality More Realistic
A compact augmented reality system uses an array of miniature mirrors to create virtual images that appear more "solid" in front of real-world objects.
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