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Helping Drone Swarms Avoid Obstacles Without Hitting Each Other
A predictive control model allows individual drones to predict their own behavior and that of neighboring drones in a swarm, to keep them from bumping into each...
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Microsoft Warns: Watch Out for This Malware That Steals Passwords, Webcam, Browser Data
Microsoft has issued a warning over RevengeRAT, a remote access tool that has been used to target aerospace and travel industries with spear-phishing campaigns....
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Helping Robots Collaborate to Get the Job Done
A new algorithm aims to foster cooperation between information-gathering robot teams.
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Intel's Cryogenic Chip Shows It Can Control Qubits Even in a Deep Freeze
Intel's researchers have proven that Horse Ridge could be used to control qubits directly next to the quantum processor.
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An Automated Box on Wheels—with Personality
People find boxy talking robots humorous and engaging, which may make robotic technology more acceptable in everyday life.
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Precise Touchscreens, Thanks to AI
A new artificial intelligence technique more precisely estimates where a finger touches a mobile phone screen, to reduce typing errors.
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Cloudflare Reveals Plan to End CAPTCHA 'Madness'
Cloudflare says the CAPTCHA system wastes nearly 500 human years every single day.
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Amazon Cloud Technology Aids NFL in Schedule Making
The National Football League used Amazon Web Services' cloud platform to arrange its just-released 272-game 2021 schedule.
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AI, Drones Will Help Pin Down Sosnovsky's Hogweed
To monitor the spread of Sosnovsky's hogweed, scientists developed an artificial intelligence monitoring system that performs real-time image segmentation onboard...
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The Autonomous Vehicle World is Shrinking — It's Overdue
'The AV industry has promised too much for too long, and has delivered too little'
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Pipeline Hack Points to Growing Cybersecurity Risk for Energy System
Energy infrastructure has increasingly come under assault, and analysts said the attack that cut off fuel supplies this week should be a "wake-up call."
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Colonial Pipeline Paid Nearly $5 million in Ransomware Blackmail Payment
The payment was reportedly made soon after the attack began. It wasn't enough to stop the disruption.
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Security Researcher Successfully Jailbreaks Apple AirTag
German security researcher stacksmashing was able to break into, dump, and reflash the microcontroller of Apple's AirTag object-location product.
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Quantum Simulator Beats Quantum Hardware
Toshiba's quasi-quantum optimization algorithm on Microsoft's Azure cloud outperforms today's fledgling quantum computer speeds.
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Self-Learning Robots Go Full Steam Ahead
Researchers in the Netherlands have demonstrated that a group of autonomous self-learning robots can change what they are doing in response to changing conditions...
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Biden Signs Executive Order to Bolster Federal Government’s Cybersecurity
President Biden's order places strict new standards on software sold to the government.
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Intel Says It Has Solved a Key Bottleneck in Quantum Computing
Intel and QuTech say they've demonstrated the first instance of high-fidelity two-qubit control using Intel's Horse Ridge cryogenic control chip.
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This One Change Could Protect Your Systems From Attack. So Why Don't More Companies Do It?
One 'boring but really important' change could improve your security posture significantly. But not everyone does it.
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This System Helps Robots Better Navigate Emergency Rooms
A new navigation system aims to improve the ability of robots to navigate busy clinical environments, especially hospital emergency departments.
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