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A Quick Guide to the Cybersecurity Bill Passed By the .s. Senate
After more than a year of bickering, stalling and revising, the Senate passed its most significant cybersecurity bill to date 74–21.
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European Parliament Votes Against Net Neutrality Amendments
The European Parliament has voted against a set of rules intended to safeguard "net neutrality" in the EU.
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MIT ses Wireless Signals to Identify People Through Walls
MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab is developing a device that uses wireless signals to identify human figures through walls.
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The Computer System That Won Jeopardy Could Soon Help Nasa With Research
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration researchers want to use IBM's Watson to help improve their awareness of scientific and technical literature.
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Coding Bootcamp Grads Boost Their Salaries By 40 Percent on Average
Graduates of coding bootcamps found completing the programs helped boost their salaries by an average of 38 percent or $18,000, according to the Course Report.
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Manipulating Faces From Afar in Real Time
Computer scientists say they have created a process dubbed "live facial re-enactment" that can instantaneously transfer facial expressions.
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c3m Researches Simulator of Human Behavior
Researchers at the Charles III University of Madrid in Spain are investigating how to build a system that recreates human behavior.
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A Basis For All Cryptography
The inability to practically apply indistinguishability obfuscation to deliver secure cryptography may be mitigated with an efficient method for functional encryption...
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Everything You Need to Know About the Vast ndersea Network that Makes the Internet Work
Russians submarines and spy ships are "ggressively operating" near the undersea cables that are the backbone of the global Internet—worrying some U.S. intelligence...
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Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill
The fact that automated cars can never be perfectly safe raises ethical issues, such as how they should be programmed to act in the event of an unavoidable collision...
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What It Will Take to Make Computer Science Education Available in All Schools
Marie desJardins of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, sees a great need to expand computer science education in the K-12 grades.
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How Your Device Knows Your Life Through Images
Researchers have designed an artificial neural network to identify scenes in photographs taken by people using wearable cameras or mobile phones.
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It's Not Just Vw: A Robust Market For Reprogramming Vehicles
Lawmakers want to know more about Volkswagen's massive cheat—how the automaker used software to crank up the power on a vehicle, and then hide the fact.
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Google Turning Its Lucrative Web Search Over to AI Machines
When Google-parent Alphabet Inc. reported eye-popping earnings last week its executives couldn’t stop talking up the company's investments in machine learning and...
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ab Research Studies Cyberattacks Through the Lens of Eeg and Eye Tracking
Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham recently presented a study about users' susceptibility to, and ability to detect, certain cyberattacks. ...
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins Study Crickets' Aerial Acrobatics in Hopes of Building Better Robots
Johns Hopkins University researchers say they have spent more than eight months studying spider crickets in order to develop a new generation of jumping robots. ...
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Image Too Good to Be True? DARPA Program Targets Image Doctoring
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to develop an easy-to-use toolset to detect altered images.
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Drivers Push Tesla's Autopilot Beyond Its Abilities
Enthusiastic Tesla owners cheered last Wednesday when the company enabled the use of an automated driving system, called Autopilot, in its Model S all-electric...
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We Don't Need Humans on Mars
The two mobile robots Spirit and Opportunity were launched from Earth in 2003 and arrived on opposite sides of Mars in 2004. A suite of cameras, instruments, and...
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