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Apple's New App Will Teach the Next Generation How to Code
Apple's new Swift Playgrounds iPad application is designed to teach novices how to code, using the Swift programming language with their mobile devices.
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Nanotech 'tattoo' Can Map Emotions and Monitor Muscle Activity
Tel Aviv University researchers have developed a temporary "electronic tattoo" that can measure the activity of muscle and nerve cells.
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Robert Fano, Computing Pioneer and Founder of Csail, Dies at 98
A professor emeritus helped launch field of information theory and developed early time-sharing computers.
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DARPA Hopes Automation Can Create the Perfect Hacker
Look out, human hackers. Pentagon research agency DARPA says people are too slow at finding and fixing security bugs and wants to see smart software take over the...
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Clever Tool Shields Your Car From Hacks By Watching Its Internal Clocks
Car-hacking demonstrations tend to get all the glory in the security research community—remotely paralyzing a Jeep on the highway or cutting a Corvette’s brakes...
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How to Stay Anonymous Online
New technology for protecting anonymity online provides stronger security guarantees but uses bandwidth much more efficiently than previous anonymity networks.
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Robots Could Hack Turing Test By Keeping Silent
The Turing test, the quintessential evaluation designed to determine if something is a computer or a human, may have a fatal flaw, new research suggests.
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A Computer Binge-Watched Tv and Learned to Predict What Happens Next
You watch hundreds of hours of television, they call you a lazy slob. A computer does it, and it's a technological success story.
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Science on the Verge of Creating 'emotional' Computer
Researchers are developing an emotion-based artificial intelligence that will be able to understand the context of what is going on, as well as unfolding scenarios...
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In-Ear Eeg Makes nobtrusive Brain-Hacking Gadgets a Real Possibility
Two research teams are developing electroencephalogram sensors that fit inside the ear.
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Researchers Want to Achieve Machine Translation of the 24 Languages of the Eu
Saarland University researchers are developing an automated system for translating between the languages of the European Union.
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Extortion Extinction: Researchers Develop a Way to Stop Ransomware
University of Florida researchers have developed a system they say can thwart ransomware.
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Computer Hackers Don't Stand a Chance Against These Girls
The GenCyber program consists of 119 summer camps for girls sponsored by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Academy of Sciences.
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The Code That Took America to the Moon Was Just Published to Github
The flight software for the Apollo 11 space program last week was uploaded to the GitHub code-sharing website.
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Olcf Expands Data Analytics Capability With Popular Programming Language
Users at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility are able to use R data analytics software to manage and analyze enormous datasets generated by supercomputers...
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Nmsu Team Wins International Competition For Software to Help Emergency Responders
Competitors in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Icehouse Challenge were tasked with creating software for emergency responders.
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How to Stay Anonymous Online
Anonymity networks protect people living under repressive regimes from surveillance of their Internet use. But the recent discovery of vulnerabilities in the most...
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How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Warn S of Another Dallas
As the country reels from the spasm of gun violence that killed two black men and five police officers this week, a prominent digital vigilante is using an online...
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