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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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How the Cloud Has Opened Doors for Hackers
Corporate transfers of operations to the cloud have elevated the threat of hacking.
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Can YouTube Quiet Its Conspiracy Theorists?
While YouTube has reduced how often its algorithm recommends conspiracy theory-related videos, its progress in dealing with conspiracy theories has been uneven....
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Hacking Victims Are Uncovering Cyberattacks Faster; GDPR Is the Reason Why
GDPR has been linked to quicker cyberattack discovery times in the European Union.
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Oregon Engineer Makes History With New Traffic Light Timing Formula
Mats Jarlstrom was fined $500 for criticizing the timing of traffic lights. He sued, won, and now his formula will help traffic engineers around the world.
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ICE Has Run Facial Recognition Searches on Millions of Maryland Drivers
Maryland officials said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have run facial recognition searches on millions of state driver's license photos without...
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'Surfing Attack' Hacks Siri, Google with Ultrasonic Waves
A multi-institutional collaboration has demonstrated a "surfing attack" that uses ultrasonic waves to hijack voice-recognition systems on cellphones, including...
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Hackers Can Trick a Tesla into Accelerating By 50 Miles Per Hour
Researchers at McAfee have demonstrated that adversarial machine learning can thwart autonomous driving systems.
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DOD Adopts Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence
The recommendations came after 15 months of consultation with experts on artificial intelligence from industry, government, academia, and the American public.
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Reliability of Pricey New Voting Machines Questioned
Computer security experts continue to express doubts that expensive new voting machines are reliable, considering them almost as risky as earlier discredited electronic...
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New California Law Creates Complications for Connected Cars
The California Consumer Privacy Act is one of the most stringent and sweeping privacy laws in the country, but may create complications for carmakers and dealerships...
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Coding for Uncertainty Increases Security
Computer scientists have designed an algorithm to combat poaching in wildlife preserves.
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Pentagon Adopts New Ethical Principles for Using AI in War
The new principles follow recommendations made last year by the Defense Innovation Board, a group led by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
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Across the Language Barrier
Translation devices are getting better at making speech and text understandable in different languages.
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Algorithms to Harvest the Wind
Wake steering can help ever-larger turbines work together more efficiently on wind farms.
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EU’s Agenda to Regulate AI Does Little to Rein in Facial Recognition
Europe is backpedaling on facial recognition.
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In Nevada, Last-Minute Scramble to Make Voting Tech Work
Nevada's Democratic Party hopes to avoid the fiasco seen in Iowa when it holds its caucuses Saturday with an in-house electronic voting system that it had to assemble...
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Activate 'Bracelet of Silence' and Alexa Can't Eavesdrop
A prototype wearable device blocks microphones in the vicinity from eavesdropping on conversations.
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New Mexico Sues Google Over Children’s Privacy Violations
The lawsuit says that Google, the top tech brand in public schools, used its educational products to spy on students.
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China is Using Mass Surveillance Tech to Fight Coronavirus Spread
The Chinese government is working with technology companies to monitor citizens and track confirmed cases of people infected with the coronavirus.
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