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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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FBI Cybersecurity Program for Critical Infrastructure Hacked
A database with contact information for elite cybersecurity professionals is now being sold on the dark web to the highest bidder.
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Go-Playing Trick Defeats World-Class Go AI — but Loses to Human Amateurs
Adversarial policy attacks blind spots in the artificial intelligence—with broader implications than games.
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Bluetooth Security Challenged
Researchers identify a security loophole in the wireless standard.
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U.S. Finds its 'Center of Gravity' in the Fight Against Ransomware
Yet the threat remains pervasive.
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Severe Vulnerabilities Found in Most Industrial Controllers
Three-quarters of devices that keep facilities like electricity and water treatment plants safe and operational have severe, unpatched cybersecurity vulnerabilities...
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Researcher Exploits Power Supply to Transmit, Steal Data from PC
Mordechai Guri at Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev transmitted stolen data from a personal computer by manipulating the device's power supply.
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A Faster Way to Preserve Privacy Online
Researchers have developed a method for retrieving private information from a database that is approximately 30 times faster than comparable methods.
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Robots Set Their Sights on New Job: Sewing Blue Jeans
Siemens has been working with clothing companies on efforts to automate apparel manufacturing.
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Reconfiguring It Out
A researcher plumbs reconfigurable quantum circuits for high-performance computers and cellphones.
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The Real Fusion Energy Breakthrough Is Still Decades Away
U.S. nuclear scientists have achieved the long-sought goal of a fusion ignition — but don't expect this clean technology to power the grid yet.
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Self-Driving Taxis Are Causing All Kinds of Trouble in San Francisco
They have blocked traffic, driven on the sidewalk, sped away from cops — and the city is powerless to stop them.
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Coalition Formed to Increase Hispanic Participation in Computer Science
National nonprofits and organizations unite efforts to boost Hispanic representation in computer science.
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The World-Changing Race to Develop the Quantum Computer
Such a device could help address climate change and food scarcity, or break the Internet. Will the U.S. or China get there first?
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Computational System Streamlines Design of Fluidic Devices
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers were part of a team that built a new system to simplify the process of designing fluidic devices.
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The Highest-Paying College Majors in 2022, Ranked
PayScale's annual ranking of the highest-paying college majors ranks electrical engineering and computer science at No. 1.
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This 1980s Programming Language Sparked a Revolution. Now You Can Check Out the Source Code
Adobe gave permission to the Computer History Museum to release the source code for an early version of its PostScript programming language, first released in 1984...
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Twitter Disbands Trust and Safety Council
The action comes the same day Twitter moved to boost its revenue not linked to digital advertising by reintroducing a paid-for subscription service that would show...
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Brain Implants Have Begun to Restore Functions, but Advances Are Slow
But achieving full-body restoration of movement, as Elon Musk envisions with such devices, is considered far into the future, if at all.
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Japanese Company's Lunar Lander Launches to the Moon
The company, Ispace, is carrying a rover from the United Arab Emirates, a Japanese robot, and other cargo in its bid to possibly be the first commercial lander...
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