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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Engineers Fabricate a Chip-Free, Wireless Electronic 'Skin'
MIT engineers have devised a wearable sensor that communicates wirelessly without requiring onboard chips or batteries.
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Zoom Used In Smuggled Code Attack
Google Project Zero security researcher Ivan Fratric launched a remote code execution attack by exploiting the technology underlying Zoom and other applications...
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FEC Greenlights Google Plan to Loosen Spam Filters, Overcoming Democratic Challenge
Under the pilot program, campaigns would be able to circumvent algorithmic sorting by tech companies that at times sends their emails to spam.
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Teens, Social Media, and Technology 2022
TikTok has established itself as one of the top online platforms for U.S. teens, while the share of teens who use Facebook has fallen sharply.
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How Russia Took Over Ukraine's Internet in Occupied Territories
Internet routing data for a service provider in Kherson shows traffic beginning to flow through Russian networks in May before fully transitioning by early June...
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NASA is Crowdsourcing Cloud Research--on Mars
Scientists have recruited volunteers to identify clouds on Mars through the Zooniverse, a platform that hosts crowdsourced citizen projects.
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Can Foundation Models Help Us Achieve 'Perfect Secrecy'?
Stanford University researchers are exploring whether emerging foundation models can help to realize the highest level of privacy, or "perfect secrecy."
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Streaming from the Future
A machine learning system can remove buildings from a live view on a mobile device, which could speed up the process of urban renewal.
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NASA Space Robotics Dive into Deep-Sea Work
Former NASA roboticists who helped developed the Robonaut 2 astronaut assistant robot are part of a research team that has developed a deep-sea robot.
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College in the Metaverse Is Here. Is Higher Ed Ready?
This fall, students at 10 U.S. universities will attend metaversities, virtual reality (VR) platforms where educators and students wear VR headsets and interact...
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Extreme Security for Users Targeted by Cyberattack
Apple's Lockdown Mode provides serious security to individuals personally targeted by sophisticated attackers.
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Conjoined Twins Separated with the Help of VR
Virtual reality (VR) technology was instrumental in the surgery that successfully separated Brazilian twins who were joined at the head.
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Network Visualization Tool Maps Information Spread
Indiana University Bloomington has launched an updated version of the Network Tool, a visualization tool that shows journalists, scientists, and the public how...
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A Secret Language of Cells? Cell Computations Uncovered
Scientists at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and EPFL's Blue Brain Project have published a theory describing a secret cell language...
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In Memoriam: Alexander Fraser
The projects he worked on or oversaw had a huge impact, either directly or indirectly.
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U.K. Project Will Create 165-Mile Drone Superhighway
The U.K. government has approved plans for Skyway, a 165-mile drone superhighway that will connect towns across England and be used to survey infrastructure such...
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Neurotechnology and the Law
How closely should implants be regulated?
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BCI Startup Implants First Device in U.S. Patient
A brain-computer interface startup has implanted a wire-electrode combination in the brain of a U.S. patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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