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Your Internet is Working. Thank These Cold War-era Pioneers who Designed it to Handle Almost Anything
Coronavirus may have forced people to stay at home, but the Internet these scientists envisioned long ago is keeping the world connected.
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MIT Researchers Launch Location-Tracking Effort for the New Coronavirus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers and partner organizations have launched a project to track COVID-19 patients through their phones.
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Molecule Co-Discovered at University of Limerick Leads to Breakthrough on How Data is Stored
Researchers have discovered a metal-organic molecule that can switch between three distinct, long-lived states.
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AI Finds 2D Materials in the Blink of an Eye
A new artificial intelligence system can quickly find and label two-dimensional materials in microscope images.
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Behind the Global Efforts to Make a Privacy-first Coronavirus Tracking App
The hope is that smartphone tracking — combined with widespread testing — can help create a framework for cities to let people resume their lives.
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WhatsApp is Limiting Message Forwarding to Combat Coronavirus Misinformation
From today, messages identified as "highly forwarded" can be forwarded to a single person, instead of five.
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Covid-19: The Race to Create Privacy-focused Contact Tracing Tools
As authorities seek technological solutions to the pandemic, experts fear the consequences for civil liberties.
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Keeping Students Educated and Engaged
The use of distance learning has grown quickly in primary education, in response to school closures due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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How a Real Dog Taught a Robot Dog to Walk
Researchers at Google have developed a robotic dog and taught it to walk by showing it motion-capture videos of real dogs walking on treadmills.
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A 3D-Printed Brain Could Make It Easier to Find Cancer Treatments
Researchers have developed a technique to study glioblastoma brain tumors using a three-dimensionally (3D)-printed framework composed of human brain cells and biomaterials...
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How Are You Feeling? Surveys Aim to Detect COVID-19 Hot Spots Early
More than 2 million Britons and 150,000 Israelis have completed health surveys to trace COVID-19 outbreaks and send resources where they can do the most good.
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Study Uses AI to Estimate Unexploded Bombs From Vietnam War
Researchers at The Ohio State University (OSU) used artificial intelligence to find unexploded Vietnam War-era bombs in Cambodia.
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That Chatbot May Be Chatty, but Is It Engaging?
Researchers have developed a technique for evaluating chatbots' conversational skills based on whether their dialogues are genuinely interesting to the user.
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COVID-19 Response: New Jersey Urgently Needs COBOL Programmers (Yes, You Read That Correctly)
The danger of relying on COBOL despite its obsolescence is not a new issue.
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Silent Film Reel Shows Staff Connected to Bletchley Park for First Time
Footage, preserved in original canister, shows people who worked at secret wartime site
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Vint Cerf Tweets 'Good News' on Coronavirus Recovery
"Good news," Internet pioneer Vinton G. Cerf tweeted Friday that he and his wife are recovering from COVID-19, the coronavirus disease.
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World's Most Essential Open-Source Code to Be Stored in Arctic Vault
GitHub this month plans to add another 100 million folders to its existing cache of the equivalent of 10,000 folders of source code files in Coal Mine 3, a disused...
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COVID-19 Malware Will Wipe Your PC, Rewrite MBR
ZDNet has identified five COVID-19-themed malware strains that can wipe an infected PC's files or rewrite its master boot record (MBR).
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Scientists Develop 'Backpack' Computers to Track Wild Animals in Hard-to-Reach Habitats
A team of collaborated on the development of wireless attachable "backpack" computers that can be used to track tiny animals in hard-to-reach habitats.
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