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Introducing a Virtual Planet Simulator for Modeling Distant Worlds Across Time
The University of Washington's Rory Barnes has developed software for modeling planetary evolution over time.
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Aristotle Award Presentation TECHCON 2019
The Aristotle Award was initiated in 1995 to recognize professors who best contribute to the development of the industry's most valuable resource, its human resource...
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Moving the Encryption Policy Conversation Forward
Strong data encryption thwarts criminals and preserves privacy. At the same time, it complicates law enforcement investigations. A Carnegie working group looks...
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Mozilla, Creative Commons Want to Reimagine the Internet Without Ads, and They Have $100M to Do it
The Grant for the Web program will give roughly $20 million per year for five years to content sites, open source infrastructure developers, and others.
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Google's Smart-City Plans 'Tech for Tech's Sake'
An independent panel criticized a smart-city development planned by Google's Sidewalk Labs unit on Toronto's waterfront, citing innovations as being more about...
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Theoretical Computer Scientist Receives Waterman Award
Mark Braverman is the third theoretical scientist in a decade to be honored with the Waterman Award.
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How Hackers Could Break Into the Smart City
The more connected a smart city is, the greater its vulnerability to cyberattack.
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AI Learns to Defy Laws of Physics to Win at Hide-and-Seek
Scientists at the OpenAI artificial intelligence laboratory developed bots that trained themselves to cooperate by playing hide-and-seek.
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Smart TVs Sending Sensitive User Data to Netflix, Facebook
A new study has found that certain smart TVs and streaming dongles transmit information to Netflix, Facebook, and third-party services, in some cases even when...
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Engineers Develop Multimaterial Fiber 'Ink' for 3D-Printed Devices
A new method utilizes standard three-dimensional printers to produce functioning devices with electronics already embedded within them.
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Algorithm Can Distinguish Cyberbullies from Normal Twitter Users with 90% Accuracy
Machine learning algorithms developed by a team of Binghamton University researchers can differentiate bullies and aggressors on Twitter from normal users with...
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Israeli Researchers Develop AI-Based Cancer Treatment
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-based technique for mapping receptors on cancer cells.
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Artificial Intelligence Confronts a 'Reproducibility' Crisis
Machine-learning systems are black boxes even to the researchers that build them. That makes it hard for others to assess the results.
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Smile-to-Pay: Chinese Shoppers Turn to Facial Payment Technology
China is embracing facial payment technology, which allows consumers to purchase goods simply by posing in front of point-of-sale machines equipped with cameras...
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Computing 'Boot Camp' is Showing that 'Anyone Can Be a Coder'
School of Code is a U.K.-based startup that offers 15 weeks of free training at a "boot camp" for computer programming.
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Popular Mobile Games Can Detect Cognitive Decline
Researchers have found that popular mobile phone games can be used as a tool to help doctors identify early signs of cognitive decline.
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A Smart Artificial Hand for Amputees Merges User, Robotic Control
Researchers in Switzerland are developing new approaches for control of robotic hands for amputees that combine individual finger control and automation for improved...
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Körber Prize 2019 for Bernhard Schölkopf
This year, the scientific distinction with the highest prize money in Germany goes to the pioneer of artificial intelligence.
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How State Election Officials Are Contributing to Weak Security in 2020
A study by cybersecurity company NormShield found U.S. state election offices are failing to implement digital safeguards, increasing the 2020 elections' susceptibility...
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