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Protecting Users' Private Data While They Browse
The SugarCoat tool can protect users' private data while they browse the Web.
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Xerox to Announce Multiyear Cloud Deal With Oracle
Xerox will use Oracle's cloud-computing infrastructure and software as a digital backbone for a swathe of ventures being developed in its business incubator.
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Cornell University Reports More Than 900 Covid-19 Cases This Week
Many are Omicron variant cases in fully vaccinated students.
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Amazon Shutting Down One of the Oldest Staples on the Internet
The ecommerce giant is closing down Alexa.com, an online service that the vast majority of Amazon customers are likely unaware even existed.
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Homeland Security Offers Hackers a Bounty to Find Bugs
Such programs pay hackers to find vulnerabilities in networks
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Google, Microsoft Have Your Mail, Mostly
Computer scientists studying email service providers found high levels of concentration.
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World's Biggest Traders Betting on Blockchain Data
The Pyth blockchain-based technology service aims to provide data for diverse cryptocurrency projects in real time.
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This Robot Looks Like a Pancake, Jumps Like a Maggot
Researchers designed a soft, legless robot that can hop and navigate obstacle courses.
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Your Face Is, or Will Be, Your Boarding Pass
Many biometric identification innovations use facial recognition.
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Robots Gathering to Help Beat Britain's Supply-Chain Shortages
Robotic logistics is helping to mitigate labor shortages and other supply-chain disruptions in the U.K.
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Software Flaw Sparks Global Race to Patch Bug
Companies and governments scrambled this past weekend to patch a major bug in a piece of popular Internet software that security experts warned could grant hackers...
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Winning the War on Ransomware
The DoJ's task force is changing the landscape around hackers, but will it be enough?
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Wildfire Dataset Helps Firefighters Save Lives, Property
Scientists have built the WildfireDB dataset for simulating the spread of wildfires to help study wildfires and guide emergency response and evacuations.
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Generating a Realistic 3D World
Researchers developed the ThreeDWorld platform to simulate high-fidelity audio and visual environments.
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World's Largest Lab-Grown Steak Unveiled by Israeli Firm
Researchers at the Israeli firm MeaTech 3D said they have grown a 4-ounce steak in a lab, the largest produced thus far.
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Protection from DDoS Attacks – And Why It Is Useless
In this piece, we'll use a plain example to illustrate the existing types of DDoS attacks, and how businesses try to fend them off.
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Renewable Energy Is Great—but the Grid Can Slow It Down
Many solar and wind projects face a problem: getting the energy from where it's made to where it's needed.
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FBI Document Shows How Popular Secure Messaging Apps Stack Up
An FBI document details the agency's ability to legally access content from secure messaging applications.
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Algorithm Shows Under the Right Conditions, Mosquitoes Flourish in Winter
A machine learning-based algorithm can precisely forecast microclimatic temperature within breeding grounds of Aedes albopictus mosquitoes.
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