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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Spy in Your Pocket
Smartphones can analyze virtually every aspect of your personality, beliefs, and behaviors.
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Treating Asthma with Data Analytics
A new health information system was designed to help asthma patients better manage their condition.
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Millions of Tweets Peddled Conspiracy Theories About Coronavirus in Other Countries, an Unpublished U.S. Report Says
An unpublished U.S. State Department study estimated that about 2 million tweets promoted conspiracy theories about the coronavirus over the three-week period when...
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Optical System Could Lead to Devices That Can Recognize Objects Instantly
An optical neural network concurrently works with multiple wavelengths of light.
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Hackers Can Clone Millions of Toyota, Hyundai, Kia Keys
Researchers found previously unknown vulnerabilities in encryption systems used by in-vehicle devices that communicate at close range with key fobs to unlock the...
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Researchers Identify Cybersecurity Approach to Protect Army Systems
Researchers have developed an approach to protect Army systems from attack in ways that don't require massive amounts of manual intervention.
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How the Cloud Has Opened Doors for Hackers
Corporate transfers of operations to the cloud have elevated the threat of hacking.
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This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking
Researchers have developed an app that will let users know what IoT technologies are operating in the immediate vicinity and what data they are collecting.
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Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping
Researchers at Slovakian Internet security company ESET discovered that billions of devices are affected by a Wi-Fi vulnerability that allows nearby attackers to...
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Oregon Engineer Makes History With New Traffic Light Timing Formula
Mats Jarlstrom was fined $500 for criticizing the timing of traffic lights. He sued, won, and now his formula will help traffic engineers around the world.
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'Surfing Attack' Hacks Siri, Google with Ultrasonic Waves
A multi-institutional collaboration has demonstrated a "surfing attack" that uses ultrasonic waves to hijack voice-recognition systems on cellphones, including...
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Study Allows Brain, Artificial Neurons to Link Up Over the Web
Researchers have developed a system that brain neurons and artificial neurons to communicate with each other over the Internet.
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Sandboxing Approach Increases Browser Security
A new Web browser security scheme accelerates Web apps that run within a browser, while keeping those apps within "secure sandboxes" to prevent hijacking by malware...
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Hacking Bluetooth
Bluetooth device users seldom suspect they are opening themselves to man-in-the-middle hacker attacks.
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Protecting Sensitive Metadata So It Can't be Used for Surveillance
MIT researchers have developed a scalable metadata-protection scheme to shield the information of millions of users.
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Across the Language Barrier
Translation devices are getting better at making speech and text understandable in different languages.
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Can Nanosheet Transistors Keep Moore's Law Alive?
The technology promises to advance semiconductors and computing, but also introduces new questions and challenges.
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Study Finds Quarter of Climate Change Tweets From Bots
Brown University researchers found 25% of 6.5-million Twitter posts about climate change were likely produced by bots, giving the impression of widespread climate...
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Chip Brings Ultra-Low-Power Wi-Fi to IoT Devices
A new ultra-low-power Wi-Fi radio enables Internet of Things devices to communicate with existing Wi-Fi networks using 5,000 times less power.
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