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Novel Process to Study How Trees Affect Building Temperatures, Air Flow in Extreme Heat
Iowa State University researchers created a computational model to assess how tree shading and air flow affects building temperature in extreme heat.
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Facebook Gets Closer to Letting You Type With Your Mind
Facebook is collaborating with academia to develop a non-invasive technique to type words onto a computer directly from a user's brain.
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How Can You Reliably Spot a Fake Smile? Ask a Computer
Researchers have developed software that can identify false facial expressions.
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Facial Recognition Tech Comes to Schools, Summer Camps
Schools and summer camps throughout the U.S. are using facial recognition to bolster security and provide other services for campers and parents.
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Learning to Look
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute have developed an algorithm that could improve the accuracy of searches in microbial and metagenomic...
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Australia's Fastest Ever Supercomputer to Go Live in November
Fujitsu Australia will upgrade the power of Australia's fastest computer 10-fold by November.
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Mobile Malware Attacks are Booming in 2019: These are the Most Common Threats
Malware attacks against mobile devices, especially Android handsets, have ballooned this year.
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Stanford Camera Can Watch Moving Objects Around Corners
Stanford University researchers have developed a camera system that can reassemble scenes and detect moving objects hidden around corners, by analyzing the reflections...
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AI Radar System Can Spot Miniature Drones 3km Away
A new radar system can detect subminiature drones up to 3 kilometers (nearly 2 miles) away.
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The Drive to Quantum Computing
The U.S. National Quantum Initiative will support the push towards a quantum computing infrastructure, ecosystem, and workforce.
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Australia to Police Tech Giants' Algorithms
Australian regulators intend to launch the first office committed to policing algorithms used by technology giants like Facebook and Google, to better understand...
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This Deep Neural Network Fights Deepfakes
A new deep neural network architecture can identify manipulated images at the pixel level with high precision.
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VR Helps Police Train for Active-Shooter Scenarios
The New York City Police Department is using virtual reality to help train officers for active-shooter scenarios.
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Supercomputers Use Graphics Processors to Solve Longstanding Turbulence Question
Researchers have solved a longstanding question in turbulence using supercomputers running simulations on graphics processors originally developed for gaming.
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Improved Prosthetic Hand Has Lighter Touch, Easy Grip
Researchers have improved a commercially developed, three-dimensional printed robotic prosthetic arm, allowing an amputee to grasp his wife's hand and "feel" her...
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Phone Movement Predicts Personality Types
Researchers in Australia used data from the accelerometers in mobile phones to predict users' personalities.
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Famous Scottish Reformation Church Virtually Reconstructed After 500 years
Researchers combined computer technology with historical research to create a virtual reconstruction of how Scotland's St. Andrews Cathedral looked just before...
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AI Can Lead to Lower Dentist Bills
Dental support organizations are starting to use artificial intelligence to analyze X-ray images and automate certain steps in common procedures.
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