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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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Nasa's Juno Spacecraft Sends First In-Orbit View
The JunoCam camera aboard NASA's Juno mission is operational and sending down data after the spacecraft's July 4 arrival at Jupiter.
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Europe Approves New Trans-Atlantic Data Transfer Deal
European officials approved a new agreement on Tuesday that will allow some of the world’s largest companies, including Google and General Electric, to move digital...
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Clouds Get High on Climate Change
Clouds are moving up, up and away. An analysis of satellite data has found that, since the early 1980s, clouds have shifted towards Earth's poles and cloud tops...
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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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Artificial Intelligence Is Setting p the Internet For a Huge Clash With Europe
Neural networks are changing the Internet.
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If a Driverless Car Goes Bad We May Never Know Why
Two recent accidents involving Tesla's Autopilot system may raise questions about how computer systems based on learning should be validated and investigated when...
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Microsoft's Project Malmo Public Release Brings AI to Minecraft
Microsoft announced the open source code underlying its Project Malmo is now publicly available, enabling artificial intelligence experimentation by Minecraft users...
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Uw, Microsoft Researchers Break Record For Dna Data Storage
Researchers believe they have set a new world record for the amount of digital data successfully stored in and retrieved from DNA molecules.
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Eu Researchers Saw Brexit Coming
The European Union-funded SENSEI project accurately anticipated Britain's Brexit decision based on analysis of more than 6 million social media conversations.
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Team Begins Powering Up Science Instruments
The engineers and scientists working on NASA's Juno mission have been busying themselves, getting their newly arrived Jupiter orbiter ready for operations around...
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se of Police Robot to Kill Dallas Shooting Suspect Believed to Be First in S History
For what experts are calling the first time in history, US police have used a robot in a show of lethal force.
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No Need For Supercomputers
Researchers have developed a method for calculating complex quantum-mechanical equations with personal computers that is much faster than using supercomputers.
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Robot Eyes and Humans Fix on Different Things to Decode a Scene
Researchers are determining the differences between human minds and artificial intelligence-based machines by mapping human and AI visual attention.
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