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Attackers Can Bypass Fingerprint Authentication with an ~80% Success Rate
Fingerprint-based authentication is fine for most people, but it's hardly foolproof.
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Your Internet is Working. Thank These Cold War-era Pioneers who Designed it to Handle Almost Anything
Coronavirus may have forced people to stay at home, but the Internet these scientists envisioned long ago is keeping the world connected.
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MIT Researchers Launch Location-Tracking Effort for the New Coronavirus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers and partner organizations have launched a project to track COVID-19 patients through their phones.
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Molecule Co-Discovered at University of Limerick Leads to Breakthrough on How Data is Stored
Researchers have discovered a metal-organic molecule that can switch between three distinct, long-lived states.
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AI Finds 2D Materials in the Blink of an Eye
A new artificial intelligence system can quickly find and label two-dimensional materials in microscope images.
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Behind the Global Efforts to Make a Privacy-first Coronavirus Tracking App
The hope is that smartphone tracking — combined with widespread testing — can help create a framework for cities to let people resume their lives.
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Covid-19: The Race to Create Privacy-focused Contact Tracing Tools
As authorities seek technological solutions to the pandemic, experts fear the consequences for civil liberties.
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Keeping Students Educated and Engaged
The use of distance learning has grown quickly in primary education, in response to school closures due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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How a Real Dog Taught a Robot Dog to Walk
Researchers at Google have developed a robotic dog and taught it to walk by showing it motion-capture videos of real dogs walking on treadmills.
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A 3D-Printed Brain Could Make It Easier to Find Cancer Treatments
Researchers have developed a technique to study glioblastoma brain tumors using a three-dimensionally (3D)-printed framework composed of human brain cells and biomaterials...
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Study Uses AI to Estimate Unexploded Bombs From Vietnam War
Researchers at The Ohio State University (OSU) used artificial intelligence to find unexploded Vietnam War-era bombs in Cambodia.
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That Chatbot May Be Chatty, but Is It Engaging?
Researchers have developed a technique for evaluating chatbots' conversational skills based on whether their dialogues are genuinely interesting to the user.
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Scientists Develop 'Backpack' Computers to Track Wild Animals in Hard-to-Reach Habitats
A team of collaborated on the development of wireless attachable "backpack" computers that can be used to track tiny animals in hard-to-reach habitats.
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Engineers 3D-Print Soft, Rubbery Brain Implants
Engineers have developed a way to three-dimensionally print neural probes and other electronic devices that are as soft and flexible as rubber.
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FCC Moves to Boost Wi-Fi Speed
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will vote on whether to permit Wi-Fi devices to access a greater portion of the radiofrequency spectrum.
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As Coronavirus Surveillance Escalates, Personal Privacy Plummets
Many countries scrambling to contain the coronavirus pandemic are deploying digital surveillance to control their populations.
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Research by University of Chicago Ph.D. Student, EPiQC Wins IBM Q Best Paper
A new approach for using a quantum computer to realize a near-term "killer app" was awarded the $2,500 first prize in the 2019 IBM Q Best Paper Award competition...
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Robots Use Light Beams to Zap Hospital Viruses
A robotic system uses eight UV-C ultraviolet-light-emitting bulbs to destroy bacteria, viruses, and other harmful microbes.
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CNNs Catch Animals in the Wild
Researchers are using convolutional neural networks to identify the few frames of interest among massive amounts of visual information.
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