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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Deepfakes Trying to Change the Course of War
Deepfake videos are being used to manipulate the course of the war in Ukraine.
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Food Businesses Lose Faith in Instagram After Algorithm Changes
The change of Instagram's algorithm to prioritize videos over photos has put a damper on the social media strategies of small food businesses.
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Honda's Asimo Robot to Retire After 20-Year Career Wowing the Public
Honda has been developing the Asimo bipedal humanoid robot since 2000 with the goal of developing robots that will coexist with and be useful to people.
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Have iPhone Cameras Become Too Smart?
Apple's newest smartphone models use machine learning to make every image look professionally taken. That doesn't mean the photos are good.
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EU Takes Aim at Big Tech's Power With Landmark Digital Act
The European Union was expected to finalize the Digital Markets Act, the most sweeping legislation to regulate tech since a European privacy law was passed in 2018...
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Robot Truckers Could Replace 500K U.S. Jobs
Autonomous driving engineers are developing driverless trucks for long-haul freight that runs along simple interstate routes.
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Bitcoin Miners Want to Recast Themselves as Eco-friendly
All five of the biggest publicly traded crypto mining companies are developing, or already operating, plants powered by renewable energy.
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Leveraging AI to Work with Cells
Researchers developed a new version of their Nanofountain Probe Electroporation tool to execute cell engineering tasks using artificial intelligence.
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Hackers Hit Authentication Firm Okta, Customers 'May Have Been Impacted'
Authentication services provider Okta reported a hacker breach that may have impacted some of its customers.
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Anonymous Claims it Hacked Russia's Central Bank
Group has already leaked thousands of Kremlin documents relating to the war.
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Email as Therapy
Many people find in-person counseling threatening, and may prefer the flexibility of message-based mental health services.
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The FTC's New Enforcement Weapon Spells Death for Algorithms
It may have found a new standard for penalizing tech companies that violate privacy and use deceptive data practices: algorithmic destruction.
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Russia's Killer Drone in Ukraine Raises Fears About AI in Warfare
The maker of the lethal drone claims that it can identify targets using artificial intelligence.
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The March of the Penguins Has a New Star: An Autonomous Robot
Researchers built a ground vehicle that may be operated in autonomous or remote-controlled modes to study hundreds of Emperor penguins in Antarctica.
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Most People are Cool with Implanting Chips in Their Brains, but Only if They Can Turn Them Off
More than three-quarters of U.S. adults polled were against surgically implanting a chip in their brains to improve their cognitive abilities.
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How Native Americans Try to Debug AI's Biases
At the recent American Indian Science and Engineering Society, students in a workshop created metadata to train an algorithm to understand an image's cultural significance...
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A Big Bet to Kill the Password for Good
FIDO is looking to get to the heart of what still makes passwordless schemes tough to navigate.
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Bitcoin Miners Want to Recast Themselves as Eco-Friendly
Facing intense criticism, the crypto mining industry is trying to change the view that its energy-guzzling computers are harmful to the climate.
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