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Police Requests for Google Users' Location Histories Face New Scrutiny
Police use of "geofence" warrants is being disputed by criminal defendants in Virginia and San Francisco, and could be banned by lawmakers in New York.
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Engineers Built “Giant Atoms” That Enhance Quantum Computers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers hope their giant atoms lead to a simpler, enhanced form of quantum computers.
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U.S. Computer Sales Spiked in the Rush to Work From Home
Computer makers were caught off guard by the huge surge in demand for laptops, with many retailers and distributors struggling to keep up during the early period...
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Technology Makes Homes More Energy Independent, Helps Divert Power During Blackouts
A new smart technology can help utilities better serve communities struck by outages.
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Ford to Use Boston Dynamics Robots to Map Manufacturing Facilities
Ford will use two of Boston Dynamics' Spot robots to help the automaker update the original engineering plans of a transmission manufacturing plant, as a pilot...
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How AI Systems Use Mad Libs to Teach Themselves Grammar
Artificial intelligence researchers at Stanford University have found that advanced AI systems can work out linguistic principles like grammar by themselves.
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Black Tech Professionals Still Paid Less Than Their White Colleagues
Job search firm Hired estimates black technology professionals last year were offered an average yearly wage of $10,000 less than white workers, a minor improvement...
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Technology Infuses Ancient Hajj Rites Tailored for Pandemic
A small number of devout Muslims are being allowed to participate in the pilgrimage (hajj) to Mecca this year, tailored for the coronavirus pandemic with the latest...
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New Zealand Claims World First in Setting Standards for Government Use of Algorithms
New Zealand's Statistics minister says the new charter on algorithms is an 'important part of building public trust."
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NIST's Post-Quantum Cryptography Program Enters 'Selection Round'
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology initiated the third round of reviewing algorithms submitted to form the core of the first post-quantum cryptography...
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Researchers' AI System Strips Identifiable Attributes Like Gender From Speech Recordings
Researchers have proposed a technique that can remove attributes like gender from speech data to protect sensitive information.
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Study: Twitter Mirrors Our Attitudes, Feelings About Covid-19
University of Rochester researchers mined Twitter messages to gauge public attitudes and feelings about the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Face Masks are Thwarting Even the Best Facial Recognition Algorithms, Study Finds
Researchers from the U.S. National Institute of Scence and Technology found that face masks are causing facial recognition algorithms to fail as much as 50% of...
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A Speedier Solution for Molecular Biomedical Research
Doctors, medical researchers, and quantum physicists together have developed an algorithm that analyzes nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy readings using quantum...
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Remote Work is the New Normal, but the Tech Problems Won't Go Away
A new study finds that while many businesses successfully switched to telecommuting overnight, some serious fine-tuning is needed if WFH is to become permanent....
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Robot Usage is Soaring During Pandemic
Conditions are ideal for a massive adoption boost to robotic and software automation technologies.
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Meet Scout: Amazon Is Taking Its Prime Delivery Robots to the South
Amazon has announced the deployment of its Scout autonomous delivery system to Atlanta, GA, and Franklin, TN, following year-long pilots elsewhere.
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Scientists Build Model to Detect Early Signs of Depression in Text
Scientists at Canada's University of Alberta have created a machine learning model that can identify linguistic clues indicating early signs of depression in written...
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Google Promises Privacy with Virus App but Can Still Collect Location Data
Despite Google's promise that its smartphone software does not track user locations, governments were surprised to learn location-setting must be active for the...
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