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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Ransomware Hackers Have the Upper Hand
Hackers put companies under intense pressure to pay ransoms quickly to get their computers systems back online.
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Researchers Uncover Software Flaws Leaving Medical Devices Vulnerable to Hackers
Researchers say they have discovered over a dozen software vulnerabilities that could be used to crash medical devices and other equipment.
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Botnet Buster Finds IoT Command and Control Centers
University of California, Riverside computer scientists have developed a tool that cripples botnets by fooling them into exposing their Internet of Things command...
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Machine Learning System Gives Robots Social Skills
A new machine-learning system helps robots understand and perform certain social interactions.
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Most Popular, Fastest-Growing Programming Languages for Developers
SlashData's 21st State of the Developer Nation Report listed JavaScript as the most popular programming language in the third quarter.
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Antibiotic Resistance Outwitted by Supercomputers
An international team of scientists used supercomputing to strengthen existing antibiotics' effectiveness against bacterial resistance.
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Toward Speech Recognition for Uncommon Spoken Languages
The new Prune, Adjust, and Re-Prune (PARP) technique allows an advanced speech-learning model learn uncommon spoken languages more easily.
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Crowdsourced Cybersecurity: Hunting for Bugs
Companies offer big money to 'white-hat hackers' to find flaws in software products before the black hats do.
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Smart Scheduling for Big Computing Tasks Cuts Emissions Up to a Third
Researchers found that shifting large computing jobs to nights or weekends can lower carbon emissions from datacenters by as much as a third.
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Academy Student's Math Project Wins National STEM Competition
A ninth grader at Albuquerque Academy in New Mexico won the $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize at the Broadcom MASTERS science and engineering contest.
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Robot Teams Win DARPA Subterranean Challenge
The teams behind the real and virtual robots named as winners shared a total of $5 million in prize money.
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Some Artists Found a Lifeline Selling NFTs. Others Worry It's a Trap
Artists are jumping into a market that will pay thousands for their work. But they're running into scams, environmental concerns, and crypto hype.
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Qubit Devices Inch Toward Reality
Key questions and challenges remain, including how to scale qubit devices while reducing noise and errors to the point where the devices become useful.
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Filtering for Beauty
Social media "influencers" use augmented reality filtering apps to appear more beautiful, together, and cool. Results may vary.
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One Giant Leap for the Mini Cheetah
A new control system enhances the speed and agility of legged robots as they leap across gaps.
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Walgreens Testing Drone Deliveries in Texas
Retail pharmacy chain Walgreens and Google affiliate Wing will test drone deliveries in Texas next week in the city of Frisco and the town of Little Elm.
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Popular Student Monitoring Software Could Have Exposed Thousands to Hacks
The McAfee Enterprise Advanced Threat Research team found a bug in the Netop Vision Pro Education software used by about 3 million teachers and students worldwide...
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In Space, No One Can Fix Your Sign Errors
Once you've left the Earth, the simple inversion of a critical parameter can cause a mission to fail.
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Search Engine Could Help Researchers Scour Internet for Privacy Documents
Pennsylvania State University scientists have designed a search engine that uses artificial intelligence to sift through millions of online documents.
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