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Autonomous Electric Cargo Ship will Make First Voyage This Year
It will transport its first container from the town of Herøya to Brevik in Norway.
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U.S. Government Agencies to Increase Use of Facial Recognition Technology
A new survey shows the controversial systems are poised to play an even bigger role in federal business.
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38M Records Were Exposed Online—Including Contact-Tracing Info
Misconfigured Power Apps from Microsoft led to more than 1,000 Web apps accessible to anyone who found them.
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Tesla Sells 'Full Self-Driving,' but What Is It Really?
As the company deals with government scrutiny of its driver-assistance technology, an add-on kit sold for up to $10,000 is also getting more attention.
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Facebook's New Bet on Virtual Reality: Conference Rooms
The pandemic has renewed interest in virtual reality. Facebook is trying to capitalize with a new virtual meeting room service.
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Meet ISAAC, Integrating Robots with Space Stations of the Future
Software designed to enable autonomous operations of a spacecraft's operating and robotic systems
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Medicare AI Will Infer Race to Close Health Equity Gap
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plans to use artificial intelligence algorithms to determine a patient's race as a means of improving health...
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Security Company Warns of Mitsubishi Industrial Control Vulnerabilities
Researchers at cybersecurity firm Nozomi Networks Labs have identified five vulnerabilities in Mitsubishi's safety programmable logic controllers, centered on the...
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Java Surges Back Up in RedMonk Rankings
The adaptability of one of the most common programming languages is behind its continued strength, say analysts.
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Gaming Companies Should Avoid Predatory Designs, Lawmakers Say
Democrats press executives to extend new U.K. 'Age Appropriate Design Code' regulations to children in the U.S.
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Twitter's Photo-Cropping Algorithm Confirms Inherent Biases
Results from the company's AI bias competition reveals a preference for young, beautiful, and light-skinned faces
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Messaging Apps Have an Eavesdropping Problem
Google's Project Zero researcher Natalie Silvanovich found vulnerabilities in messaging apps that add eavesdropping bugs without requiring users to click a malicious...
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Microsoft Warns Over Unusual Malware That Targets Windows, Linux
Microsoft security researchers are warning customers about the LemonDuck crypto-mining malware that attacks Windows and Linux systems.
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Oregon Examines Spyware Investment amid Controversy
The Oregon state employee pension fund is one of the largest investors, if not the largest, in a private equity firm that has majority ownership of NSO Group, the...
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Developers Reveal Programming Languages They Love, Dread
Programmer community Stack Overflow's 2021 survey of 83,439 software developers in 181 countries found the vast majority (86.69%) named Mozilla's Rust their "most...
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Tracking Circadian Rhythms From Your Smartwatch
A new algorithm can extract an individual’s circadian rhythm from heart rate data collected by their smartwatch.
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Less Chat Can Help Robots Make Better Decisions
Robot swarms could cooperate more effectively if communication among some members of the swarm could be curtailed.
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High-Speed Projectors Power Virtual Air Hockey With Shape-Changing Paddles
Scientists at Japan's Tohoku University have invented a virtual version of air hockey that uses shapeshifting virtual projections of paddles and pucks.
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Hackers Turning to 'Exotic' Programming Languages for Malware Development
For example, earlier this year, enterprise security firm Proofpoint discovered new malware written in Nim and Rust.
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