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U.S. Seizes Bitcoin Said to Be Used to Finance Terrorist Groups
ISIS and other groups openly solicited virtual currency donations because they mistakenly believed that the transactions would be anonymous, officials said.
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NSA Warns Cellphone Location Data Could Pose National-Security Threat
The U.S. National Security Agency has released new guidance for military and intelligence community staff, warning of threats to national security from cellphone...
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Android Phones to Track Quakes; California Gets Alert System
Google said Android phones will begin detecting earthquakes from around the world through their motion-sensing accelerometers.
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Finding Common Ground
Self-driving vehicles start to understand pedestrians, cyclists.
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Army Advances Learning Capabilities of Drone Swarms
Researchers have developed a reinforcement learning technique to enable swarms of unmanned drones to carry out missions while minimizing performance uncertainty...
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3D Images From Ultrasounds Allow Blind Parents to Feel Their Infant's Face
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore can provide blind parents with three-dimensional models of their baby's face so they can "see" them before they are born,
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U.K. Court Says Face Recognition Violates Human Rights
The U.K. Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday that British police's use of facial recognition technology violates human rights and data protection laws.
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Russia to Apple: You're Guilty of Antitrust Abuse over iOS App Monopoly
After Kaspersky complains, Russia's competition authority finds Apple abused its total control over the App Store.
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England’s Flawed Virus Contact Tracing Will Be Revamped
After months of complaints about its centralized, privatized system, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government says resources will be diverted to local public health...
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Scientists Design Thread-Based Wearable Sweat Sensors to Monitor Health
Researchers at Tufts University have developed a flexible electronic sensing patch that can analyze a person's sweat for multiple health markers while being worn...
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AWS and NZ's Vector Launch IoT-Connected Energy Platform
Amazon Web Services and Vector, the New Zealand electricity and gas distribution company, have partnered to develop an Internet of Things and analytics solution...
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This Tool Could Protect Your Photos From Facial Recognition
Researchers at the University of Chicago want you to be able to post selfies without worrying that the next Clearview AI will use them to identify you.
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The Star of This $70 Million Sci-Fi Film Is a Robot
Meet Erica, an android believed to be Hollywood's first fully autonomous artificially intelligent actor. Can she overcome the uncanny valley?
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Steampunk Venus Rover Ideas Win NASA Contest to 'Explore Hell' With Clockwork Robots
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory received 572 entries from 82 countries in a contest to generate ideas for replacing traditional spacecraft sensors in its future...
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Laser Inversion Enables Multi-Materials 3D Printing
Columbia Engineering researchers have created a technique that could enable multi-materials manufacturing by three-dimensional printing.
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Machine Learning Reveals Recipe for Building Artificial Proteins
Researchers at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) have created a process that uses big data to design new proteins.
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Technology Infuses Ancient Hajj Rites Tailored for Pandemic
A small number of devout Muslims are being allowed to participate in the pilgrimage (hajj) to Mecca this year, tailored for the coronavirus pandemic with the latest...
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Researchers' AI System Strips Identifiable Attributes Like Gender From Speech Recordings
Researchers have proposed a technique that can remove attributes like gender from speech data to protect sensitive information.
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Scientists Build Model to Detect Early Signs of Depression in Text
Scientists at Canada's University of Alberta have created a machine learning model that can identify linguistic clues indicating early signs of depression in written...
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