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If It Quacks Like a Duck...
The looming threat of artificial intelligence-based deepfake voice conversion.
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Researchers Use 3D Printing, Sensors to Create Models for Hydropower Testing
Researchers are using three-dimensional printers and sensors to create fake fish to help test the environmental impact of hydroelectric dams on fish populations...
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Windows Code-Execution Zero-day Is Under Active Exploit, Microsoft Warns
Microsoft has issued a warning that a Windows zero-day vulnerability is being exploited in "limited targeted attacks" to execute malicious code on fully updated...
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Facebook Sent Home Thousands of Human Moderators Due to the Coronavirus. Now the Algorithms Are in Charge
Facebook has placed its army of human moderators on paid leave, forcing the company to police disinformation without them.
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System Trains Driverless Cars in Simulation Before They Hit the Road
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have created a simulation system to train driverless cars prior to their deployment on actual streets.
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There Is a Racial Divide in Speech Recognition Systems, Researchers Say
Technology from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, and Microsoft misidentified 35% of words from people who were black. White people fared much better.
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IBM Partners with White House to Direct Supercomputing Power for Coronavirus Research
IBM will help coordinate an initiative to supply more than 330 petaflops of computing power to scientists researching COVID-19.
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How CDC is Trying to Forecast Coronavirus's Spread
A group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is one of several dozen teams enlisted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to adapt their annual...
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This Drone Can Play Dodgeball
Researchers equipped a quadcopter with event cameras and algorithms to reduce its reaction time and enable it to avoid a ball thrown at it from a short distance...
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Location Data to Gauge Lockdowns Tests Europe's Love of Privacy
Officials in Austria and Italy are using location data transmitted by mobile phones to determine the effectiveness of their coronavirus lockdown policies.
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Stanford Engineers Create Shape-Changing, Free-Roaming Soft Robot
Researchers have developed a human-scale soft robot that can reconfigure its shape to grasp and handle objects.
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Researchers Expose Vulnerabilities of Password Managers
Researchers have demonstrated that some commercial password managers may not protect users completely.
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The Humble Tire Gets Kitted Out with Technology
Tire manufacturers are designing intelligent tires to improve the braking of self-driving vehicles.
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Abel Prize in Mathematics Shared by Two Trailblazers of Probability, Dynamics
Hillel Furstenberg of Israel's Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Yale University's Gregory Margulis share this year's Abel Prize in mathematics for trailblazing...
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Machine Learning, Meet Whiskey
Technologies are coming increasingly closer to approximating the human senses of taste and smell.
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How Universities Deploy Student Data
Personalizing efforts to drive greater student retention and success.
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Coronavirus Highlights Strengths of Self-Driving Delivery Vehicles
With quarantines across China, one company is showing the usefulness of autonomous vehicles.
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Fever-Detecting Goggles, Disinfectant Drones: Countries Turn to Tech to Fight Coronavirus
Health officials across the Asia-Pacific region are working to repurpose existing technology to help stop the coronavirus pandemic.
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Robots Step in as Cheap Labor Dries Up in Eastern Europe
Factory owners in Eastern European are investing in automation to counter a shortage of workers and rising wages.
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