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New Rules Allowing Small Drones to Fly Over People in U.S. Take Effect
Final rules from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration that permit small drones to fly over people and to fly at night took effect April 21.
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Study: 'Fingerprint' for 3D Printer Accurate 92% of Time
To reduce illicit use of three-dimensional printers, researchers devised a method to accurately identify each machine’s unique "fingerprint."
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AI Shows 2 Scribes Wrote One of the Dead Sea Scrolls
One of the Dead Sea Scrolls was written by two scribes with very similar handwriting, according to researchers at the Netherlands' University of Groningen.
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Facebook's Ad Algorithms Still Excluding Women from Seeing Jobs
Its ad-delivery system is excluding women from opportunities without regard to their qualifications. That would be illegal under U.S. employment law.
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Tech Chiefs Get Creative to Cure Employee Burnout
More than a year into the pandemic's remote work, corporate tech leaders try to help staff fight feelings of loneliness, fatigue.
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Walmart Is Pulling Plug on More Robots
The retailer has been phasing out automated pickup towers as curbside services have become popular.
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How Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected STEM Pay and Job Prospects?
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a bumpy ride for many sectors, but a New Scientist Jobs/SRG survey shows science and tech have weathered the storm better than most...
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Will Quantum Computing Ever Live Up to Its Hype?
One expert warns that the field is overpromising, while another says his firm is on the verge of building "useful" machines.
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Facebook Dataset Addresses Algorithmic Bias
Facebook has made public its Casual Conversations dataset, comprised of more than 45,000 videos of 3,000 individuals of different skin tones sharing their age and...
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Brazilian Government Launches Toolkit to Support Data Protection Compliance
Brazil's Digital Government Secretariat has rolled out a toolkit to facilitate central government agencies' compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation...
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A Molecule That Responds to Light
Researchers have advanced the development of molecule-based materials that can serve as light-addressable fundamental quantum bits.
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15 Graphs You Need to See to Understand AI in 2021
The 2021 AI Index provides insight into jobs, publications, diversity, and more.
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The Economic Payoff of Federally Funded IT Research
How basic IT research has yielded huge commercial benefits.
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Modeling Shows Pandemic Eviction Bans Protect Entire Communities From Covid-19 Spread
Researchers used computer modeling to determine that eviction bans during the COVID-19 pandemic lowered infection rates, shielding entire communities from the virus...
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Brain-on-a-Chip Would Need Little Training
Researchers used a spiking neural network on a microchip as a foundation for developing more efficient hardware-based artificial intelligence systems.
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U.S. Banks Deploy AI to Monitor Customers, Workers Amid Tech Backlash
Several U.S. banks are rolling out artificial intelligence systems to analyze customer preferences, monitor employees, and detect suspicious activity near ATMs....
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U.K. Regulator Gives Green Light to Delivery Drone Trials
The U.K. Civil Aviation Authority authorized a trial in which drone company Sees.ai will operate drone flights beyond the pilot's line of sight at remote industrial...
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A Hacker's Nightmare: Programmable Chips Secured by Chaos
Ohio State University scientists demonstrated a method of using physically unclonable functions to thwart hackers.
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Facial Recognition, Other 'Risky' AI Set for Constraints in EU
The European Commission has proposed new rules constraining the use of facial recognition and other artificial intelligence applications.
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