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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Long-Range Iris Scanning Is Here
An officer pulls someone over on the side of the highway.
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Airport Security Advances Clash With Privacy Issues
At a mock airport in an underground laboratory here at Northeastern University, students pretending to be passengers head through a security exit in the right direction...
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Self-Driving Cars Getting Dinged in California
Four of the nearly 50 self-driving cars now rolling around California have gotten into accidents since September, when the state began issuing permits for companies...
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Researchers Craft Network Attack to 'hack' Surgical Robot (sort Of)
As part of a series of experiments, a group of researchers at the University of Washington's BioRobotics Lab launched denial-of-service attacks against a remotely...
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w Researchers Hack a Teleoperated Surgical Robot to Reveal Security Flaws
Researchers recently conducted a series of experiments to test how attackers could hijack remote-controlled surgical robots, and to make such operations more secure...
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Engineers of Addiction
You can play a slot machine in Las Vegas before you've even reached baggage claim: there are tiny slots parlors in every terminal of McCarran International Airport...
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Rice Engineering Students Create Real-Time 3D Radar System
An impulse-based radar for real-time three-dimensional imaging recently was awarded the top prize at Rice University's annual Engineering Design Showcase.
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'Sentient Data' May One Day Augment Soldier Capabilities
The director of intelligence for the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command recently discussed the findings of its 2015 Mad Scientist Conference.
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Here's What a Cyber Warfare Arsenal Might Look Like
The Pentagon has made clear in recent weeks that cyber warfare is no longer just a futuristic threat—it is now a real one.
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6 Big Data Projects to Aid Disaster Response
The U.S. National Science Foundation and the Japan Science and Technology Agency will fund research to transform disaster management with big data and analytics...
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Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf Calls For Rapid Web Security Enhancements
The need for security was a recurring theme of the remarks made by Internet pioneer and former ACM president Vint Cerf at the National Press Club on Monday.
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The Trouble with Reference Rot
The scholarly literature is meant to be a permanent record of science.
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The Number Glitch That Can Lead to Catastrophe
A surprisingly simple bug afflicts computers controlling planes, spacecraft and more; they get confused by big numbers.
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Tanja Lange Leads Multi-Million Euro Project to Protect Data Against Quantum Computers
Eindhoven University of Technology cryptology professor Tanja Lange is leading a European project to protect data against quantum computers.
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With Boxing Match, Video Piracy Battle Enters Latest Round: Mobile Apps
The method used by thousands of people to watch unauthorized broadcasts of Saturday night's big boxing match might have been new, but to longtime media executives...
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"fingerprinting" Chips to Fight Counterfeiting
Researchers are using microscopic variations to "fingerprint" silicon chips used in consumer-product tags to combat product counterfeiting.
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Ears, Grips, and Fists Take On Mobile Phone ser Id
Yahoo Labs' Bodyprint is a biometric authentication system that could be used to replace PIN codes for smartphones.
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Online Voting a Step Closer Thanks to Breakthrough in Security Technology
Researchers say they have developed a new technique that could enable people to cast an election vote online, even if their home computer is infected with malware...
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Resilience, Not Abstinence, May Help Teens Battle Online Risk
Researchers found keeping teens safe on the Internet can be achieved by boosting their ability to cope with online risks, rather than trying to stop them from going...
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