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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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'Pre-Bunking' Shows Promise in Fight Against Misinformation
Researchers have found that "pre-bunking" is a simple, promising method to prevent misinformation.
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Earthquakes Seem to Come in a More Predictable Pattern Than We Thought
A machine learning model developed by researchers at the University of California, Davis can analyze decades of earthquake data to predict future earthquakes.
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Did My Cat Just Hit On Me? An Adventure in Pet Translation
Entrepreneurs are aiming to put A.I.-powered pet translation tools into our pockets.
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The Animal Translators
Scientists are using machine learning to eavesdrop on naked mole rats, fruit bats, crows, and whales—and to communicate back.
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Voting Machine Tampering Points to Concern for Fall Election
U.S. election officials and security experts are concerned that conspiracy theories related to the 2020 presidential election could encourage interference with...
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Computer Runs Calculations Depending on How You Squish It
Pennsylvania State University researchers built a soft computer from rows of rubber blocks that performs different calculations based on how it is squished.
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5G Networks Are Worryingly Hackable
German security researchers determined 5G networks can be hacked, having breached and hijacked live networks in a series of "red teaming" exercises.
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Researchers Design Inks for 3D-Printable Wearable Bioelectronics
A newly developed class of biomaterial inks exhibit the same characteristics as highly conductive human tissue like skin.
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'Quantum-Safe' Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC
Many challenges still lie ahead for post-quantum cryptography.
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Facebook, Twitter, Others Remove Pro-U.S. Influence Campaign
It was the first time that an influence operation promoting U.S. interests abroad had been discovered and taken down from the social media platforms.
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Google Finds 'Inoculating' People Against Misinformation Helps Blunt Its Power
British researchers and a team from Google found that teaching people how to spot misinformation made people more skeptical of it.
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Oracle Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over Tracking 5 Billion People
A class-action lawsuit against U.S. multinational technology company Oracle claims it tracks and collects personal information on billions of people.
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Watch NIST's 'Atomic Television' Live and in Color
Scientists have enhanced an atom-based radio receiver to detect and display live color TV and videogames.
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Competition Makes Big Datasets the Winners
Measurement has driven research groups to home in on the most popular datasets, but that may change as metrics shift to real-world quality.
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The Road to 6G
Looking past 5G to sixth-generation wireless technology.
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Engineers Fabricate a Chip-Free, Wireless Electronic 'Skin'
MIT engineers have devised a wearable sensor that communicates wirelessly without requiring onboard chips or batteries.
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Zoom Used In Smuggled Code Attack
Google Project Zero security researcher Ivan Fratric launched a remote code execution attack by exploiting the technology underlying Zoom and other applications...
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FEC Greenlights Google Plan to Loosen Spam Filters, Overcoming Democratic Challenge
Under the pilot program, campaigns would be able to circumvent algorithmic sorting by tech companies that at times sends their emails to spam.
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