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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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U.S. Grid at Rising Risk to Cyberattack, Says GAO
The U.S. Government Accountability Office says that distribution systems within the country's electrical grid are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattack
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Argument Technology for Debating with Humans
Project Debater is an IBM-developed artificial intelligence system that can engage with humans in debates.
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Massive Hacks Linked to Russia, China Exploited U.S. Internet Security Gap
A new report found hackers targeting servers running Microsoft Exchange software used U.S.-based computers from at least four service providers.
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DARPA's Subterranean Challenge Scores
The U.S. Defense Department agency has been sponsoring underground circuit competitions for robotic hardware systems for the last three years.
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Drive-Throughs That Predict Your Order? Restaurants Are Thinking Fast
Many restaurants expect digital ordering and drive-throughs to remain key business channels, and some are testing artificial intelligence to predict and suggest...
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Fire Safety App Simulates Wildfires, Shows Route to Avoid Them
Researchers have built a mobile wildfire simulation application that provides personalized evacuation routes to anyone in the path of a fire.
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Cybersecurity Report: 'Smart Farms' Are Hackable Farms
Researchers at China's Nanjing Agricultural University discovered unique cybersecurity issues stemming from agricultural Internet of Things applications.
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A Quantum Trick with Photons Gives ML a Speed Boost
Researchers at Austria's University of Vienna have accelerated machine learning using a quantum trick involving photons.
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Rancho Mirage Lands the Country's First 3D-Printed Housing Community
Developer Palari is planning the first three-dimensional-printed housing community in the U.S. in Rancho Mirage, CA.
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High Severity Linux Network Security Holes Found, Fixed
Positive Technologies' Alexander Popov detected five high-severity security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel's virtual socket implementation.
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Valuing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Computing Community
Improving diversity is everybody’s job.
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Livestreaming, Still Niche, Grows as a Tool for Retailers
Amazon Live is a prominent example of how interactive video shopping, popularized by TV networks like QVC, has moved online.
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Computing Clean Water
Researchers have computationally modeled affinity between solutes and membrane surfaces, to characterize their effects on water purification.
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Faulty Software Snarls Vaccine Sign-Ups
Persistent flaws in software for setting up COVID-19 vaccination appointments online threaten to slow the U.S. vaccine rollout.
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How Facebook Got Addicted to Spreading Misinformation
The company's AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can't fix the problem.
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How to Spot Deepfakes? Look at Light Reflection in the Eyes
A new tool can automatically identify deepfake photos of people by analyzing light reflections in their eyes for minute deviations.
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Double-Masking Benefits Are Limited, Japan Supercomputer Finds
Double-masking yields limited benefits compared to a single well-fitted disposable mask, according to an analysis conducted with a Japanese supercomputer.
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Trading Chicken Parts is Going Digital
Ashley Honey at New Zealand-based Nui hopes to use his company's electronic trading platforms to automate trading of meat and poultry products.
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Bug Bounties: More Hackers Spotting Vulnerabilities Across Web, Mobile, IoT
HackerOne's 2021 Hacker Report reveals a 63% jump in the number of ethical hackers submitting vulnerabilities to bug bounty programs during the last year.
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