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Clever Tool Shields Your Car From Hacks By Watching Its Internal Clocks
Car-hacking demonstrations tend to get all the glory in the security research community—remotely paralyzing a Jeep on the highway or cutting a Corvette’s brakes...
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How China Is Rewriting the Book on Human Origins
On the outskirts of Beijing, a small limestone mountain named Dragon Bone Hill rises above the surrounding sprawl.
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How to Stay Anonymous Online
New technology for protecting anonymity online provides stronger security guarantees but uses bandwidth much more efficiently than previous anonymity networks.
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Graphene Could Revolutionize the Internet of Things
Researchers say they have developed a tunable, graphene-based device that could significantly boost the speed and efficiency of wireless communication systems.
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Brain-Data Gold Mine Could Reveal How Neurons Compute
Inspired by the large-scale sky surveys with which astronomers explore the cosmos, neuroscientists in Seattle, Washington, have spent four years systematically...
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Robots Could Hack Turing Test By Keeping Silent
The Turing test, the quintessential evaluation designed to determine if something is a computer or a human, may have a fatal flaw, new research suggests.
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A Computer Binge-Watched Tv and Learned to Predict What Happens Next
You watch hundreds of hours of television, they call you a lazy slob. A computer does it, and it's a technological success story.
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Science on the Verge of Creating 'emotional' Computer
Researchers are developing an emotion-based artificial intelligence that will be able to understand the context of what is going on, as well as unfolding scenarios...
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In-Ear Eeg Makes nobtrusive Brain-Hacking Gadgets a Real Possibility
Two research teams are developing electroencephalogram sensors that fit inside the ear.
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Researchers Want to Achieve Machine Translation of the 24 Languages of the Eu
Saarland University researchers are developing an automated system for translating between the languages of the European Union.
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Nasa's Juno Spacecraft Sends First In-Orbit View
The JunoCam camera aboard NASA's Juno mission is operational and sending down data after the spacecraft's July 4 arrival at Jupiter.
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Europe Approves New Trans-Atlantic Data Transfer Deal
European officials approved a new agreement on Tuesday that will allow some of the world’s largest companies, including Google and General Electric, to move digital...
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Clouds Get High on Climate Change
Clouds are moving up, up and away. An analysis of satellite data has found that, since the early 1980s, clouds have shifted towards Earth's poles and cloud tops...
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Nmsu Team Wins International Competition For Software to Help Emergency Responders
Competitors in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Icehouse Challenge were tasked with creating software for emergency responders.
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How to Stay Anonymous Online
Anonymity networks protect people living under repressive regimes from surveillance of their Internet use. But the recent discovery of vulnerabilities in the most...
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How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Warn S of Another Dallas
As the country reels from the spasm of gun violence that killed two black men and five police officers this week, a prominent digital vigilante is using an online...
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Artificial Intelligence Is Setting p the Internet For a Huge Clash With Europe
Neural networks are changing the Internet.
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If a Driverless Car Goes Bad We May Never Know Why
Two recent accidents involving Tesla's Autopilot system may raise questions about how computer systems based on learning should be validated and investigated when...
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