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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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'Hubble Is Back!'
Famed space telescope has a new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch.
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U.S., Allies Accuse China of Hacking Microsoft and Condoning Other Cyberattacks
This is the first time Washington and other U.S. allies have assigned blame for the Microsoft Exchange hack, which compromised more than 100,000 servers worldwide...
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Japan Shatters Internet Speed Record
Japanese engineers have broken the world Internet speed record with a 319 TB per second data transmission rate across more than 3,001 kilometers of fiber-optic...
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Chatbot Can Explain Apps, Show How They Access Hardware or Data
Researchers have developed a chatbot that can help designers and developers create new apps, and explain apps to end-users.
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Chinese Phone Games Now Require Facial Scans to Play at Night
Chinese video game publisher Tencent has added a facial recognition system to more than 60 of its China-specific smartphone games.
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Concern Trolls and Power Grabs: Inside Big Tech’s Angry, Geeky, Often Petty War for your Privacy
Inside the World Wide Web Consortium, where the world's top engineers battle over the future of your data.
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Resetting Your IoT Device Before Reselling It Isn't Enough, Researchers Find
A new study suggests Amazon's recommendation that users factory reset their Internet of Things devices to erase personal information before reselling them may not...
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Inside Facebook's Data Wars
Executives at the social network have clashed over CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned data tool that revealed users' high engagement levels with right-wing media sources...
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Tapping Into the Brain to Help a Paralyzed Man Speak
In a once unimagined accomplishment, electrodes implanted in the man's brain transmit signals to a computer that displays his words.
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The New Form of Currency
Central bank digital currencies hold the promise—and peril—of changing money as we know it.
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Could Gen Z Free the World From Email?
"It's actually crazy how outdated it is." People born after AOL Mail was invented seem to prefer to communicate in almost any other way.
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Facebook, Twitter, Google Threaten to Quit Hong Kong Over Proposed Data Laws
Facebook, Twitter, and Google have threatened to halt service to Hong Kong if the city's government revises its data protection laws to make the companies liable...
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Elon Musk Just Now Realizing that Self-driving Cars are a 'Hard Problem'
Overpromising and underdelivering.
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Robocalls Are Out of Control. But That Could All Change Now
As of June 30, all major voice providers in the U.S., including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Comcast, are required to implement technology to minimize illegal robocalls...
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Engineering Additional Creativity
Can artificial intelligence augment human creativity in writing?
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Fired by Bot at Amazon: 'It's You Against the Machine'
Contract drivers say algorithms terminate them by email—even when they have done nothing wrong.
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How Tesla is Using a Supercomputer to Train its Self-Driving Tech
Tesla's approach to autonomy is controversial: It relies on just cameras to see and understand the roads.
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