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Making ML More Useful to High-Stakes Decision Makers
An international research team developed a visual analytics tool to address challenges faced by child welfare specialists using machine learning models to screen...
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Tech Companies Push Users to Adopt Two-Factor Authentication
Technology companies are more aggressively urging the use of two-factor authentication by users, with some making the process mandatory.
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Robotic Pet Boosts Mood, Cognition in Adults with Dementia
Florida Atlantic University researchers studied the effectiveness of interactive robotic pet cats in improving mood, behavior, and cognition in older adults with...
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Crowdsourced Cybersecurity: Hunting for Bugs
Companies offer big money to 'white-hat hackers' to find flaws in software products before the black hats do.
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Smart Scheduling for Big Computing Tasks Cuts Emissions Up to a Third
Researchers found that shifting large computing jobs to nights or weekends can lower carbon emissions from datacenters by as much as a third.
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Firefighting Robots Go Autonomous
Firefighting robots can enter buildings that human firefighters cannot. Researchers are working to develop firefighting robots that can make decisions autonomously...
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Academy Student's Math Project Wins National STEM Competition
A ninth grader at Albuquerque Academy in New Mexico won the $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize at the Broadcom MASTERS science and engineering contest.
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For Black Women, Online Prediction Tool Could Reduce Breast Cancer Deaths
A risk prediction model tailored to Black women has been developed for use in primary care settings to identify those at higher-than-average risk of breast cancer...
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Can Seeds Planted by Drones Spawn New Forests?
Spanish startup CO2 Revolution aims to use big data analytics and drones to drop millions of enhanced seeds for trees native to Spain's forests over inaccessible...
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Google Introduces Pathways, a 'New Generation of AI'
A new artificial intelligence architecture that will handle many tasks at once.
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Big Teacher Is Watching: How AI Spyware Took Over Schools
The pandemic caused schools to embrace laptops, tablets, Zoom, and an app called GoGuardian that tracks everything students (and, sometimes, parents) do online....
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ML Algorithms Can Be Improved Significantly for Medical Purposes
Researchers at South Africa's University of Johannesburg have demonstrated that machine learning algorithms can be enhanced significantly for medical purposes. ...
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Human Creativity in the Age of Smart Machines
The story of how one organization helped the chronically homeless demonstrates the inherent value of observation, empathy, and perseverance.
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'PodoSighter' Uses AI to Identify Kidney Disease Indicator
The PodoSighter tool identifies early indicators of kidney disease by detecting podocytes, a specialized kidney cell damaged during early-stage kidney disease. ...
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Coding Bug Helped Researchers Build Secret BlackMatter Ransomware Decryption Tool
Researchers at cybersecurity firm Emsisoft helped recover encrypted files of victims of the BlackMatter ransomware operation.
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Data-Driven Animations of Marine Mammals Combine Biology, Art, Computation
University of California, Santa Cruz researchers have created tools and procedures for generating realistic, data-driven animations of marine mammals.
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Sensors Add to Accuracy, Power of U.S. Nuclear Weapons but May Create Security Perils
Sensors created by Sandia National Laboratories for U.S. ballistic missiles could augment their detonation timing and accuracy.
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Australia Considers New Privacy Rules to Protect Children on Social Media
The Australian government is considering legislation that would enable the creation of an online code to prohibit social media from directing children to harmful...
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