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Can AI All but End Car Crashes? The Potential Is There
Proponents of artificial intelligence believe it can be used to predict, and help to prevent, dangerous driving behaviors.
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Scientists Use 3D-Printed Shells to Ward Off Ravens, Save Desert Tortoises
Researchers have developed a Techno-tortoise that eventually could help curtail a decline in the desert tortoise population.
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Power Use Reveals Harmful Chips Hidden on Circuit Boards
A circuit board's power consumption can reveal malicious tampering designed to facilitate Trojan attacks to steal sensitive data or crash a device when triggered...
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Web Scraping is Legal, U.S. Appeals Court Reaffirms
The Ninth Circuit's decision is a major win for archivists, academics, researchers, and journalists who use tools to collect, or scrape, information that is publicly...
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Football Tech That's More Than a Laser and Light Show
The U.S.F.L. is testing tech that could resolve disputes over where balls are spotted, clearly show if a first down was reached, and track players who stand too...
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A 2020 Ransomware Attack is Still Harming Baltimore Teachers
A glitch that affects up to 9,000 retirees is one of the longest-lasting effects of the devastating ransomware attack that cost the district roughly $10 million...
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Want to 3D-Print a Kidney? Start by Thinking Small
Scientists have developed microfludic-enabled three-dimensional (3D) printing of organs.
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AF2Complex: Researchers Leverage Deep Learning to Predict Physical Interactions of Protein Complexes
Researchers built a deep learning model to predict the biologically active structure of proteins and protein complexes.
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Feel the Attraction of Zwitterionic Janus Particles
Researchers have simulated the electrostatic self-configuration of zwitterionic Janus nanoparticles.
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How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens
The inside story of the world's most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it.
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Driverless Cars Can Be Tricked into Seeing Red Traffic Lights as Green
Researchers at China's Zhejiang University found driverless cars could be fooled into seeing red traffic lights as green.
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Tool Could Predict How at Risk Your Job is From Automation
Scientists have designed an algorithm to predict the extent to which specific occupations are at risk from automation.
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Hospital Robot Vulnerabilities Promptly Caught, Killed
Researchers at New York-based cybersecurity startup Cynerio identified five zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Aethon TUG smart autonomous robots used in hospitals...
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A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?
OpenAI's GPT-3 and other neural nets can now write original prose with mind-boggling fluency — a development that could have profound implications for the future...
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How Native Americans Are Trying to Debug A.I.'s Biases
Data on Native communities are not at the levels needed for accuracy in A.I.-driven tools. A group is trying to solve that problem.
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Web Surfing that Feels Instantaneous, Even Though It's Not
Researchers have developed a design for a speed-of-light Internet network across 120 U.S. cities.
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Bot Can Spot Depressed Twitter Users in 9 of 10 Cases
A new algorithm can ascertain a person's mental state by extracting and analyzing 38 data points from their public Twitter profile.
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7-Foot-Tall Robots Watch for Unmasked Travelers, Curbside Loiterers
Two seven-foot-tall robots have been deployed at Dallas Love Field Airport in Dallas, TX, to assist and monitor passengers.
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U.S. Agency Links North Korea Crime Ring to $540 Million Axie Infinity Crypto Hack
Lazarus Group allegedly has stolen nearly $2 billion in cryptocurrency since 2017.
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