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Transparent, Reflective Objects Now Within Grasp of Robots
Roboticists at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have developed a technique that uses a color camera to enable robots to pick up transparent and reflective objects...
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'Hands Free': Automakers Race to Next Level of Not-Quite-Self-Driving Cars
Auto industry executives are speeding up plans to automate routine driving tasks and aim to make the technologies widely available within five years.
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India Seeks to Limit Facebook, Google Dominance Over Online Data
An expert committee appointed by the Indian government has called for the creation of a new data regulator to oversee the sharing, monetization, and privacy of...
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Google Promises Privacy With Virus App but Can Still Collect Location Data
Some government agencies that use the software said they were surprised Google may pick up the locations of certain app users. Others said they had unsuccessfully...
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Predicting Cyberattacks
A growing number of researchers are focusing on being more proactive in predicting and preventing cyberattacks, rather than reactively fixing problems later.
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Deepfake Used to Attack Activist Couple Shows New Disinformation Frontier
A student at the U.K.'s University of Birmingham has been unmasked as fictional by state-of-the-art forensic analysis programs from Israel-based startup Cyabra....
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Researchers 3D-Print Working Heart Pump with Real Human Cells
Researchers have three-dimensionally (3D) printed a functioning human heart pump in a laboratory.
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Siri, Alexa Targeted as E.U. Probes Internet of Things
The European Commission is mounting an antitrust investigation into the Internet of Things, targeting voice assistants such as Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa. ...
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Google Announces 100,000 Scholarships for Online Certificates in Data Analytics, Project Management, UX
Google has launched new online certificate programs in data analytics, project management, and user experience design, through the online learning platform Coursera...
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Machine Learning Helps Robot Swarms Coordinate
A new machine learning technique can govern the coordinated movement of flying robot swarms in order to avoid collisions.
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U.K. Government Test-and-Trace Program Illegal under GDPR
The government skipped essential data privacy impact assessments in its rush to get the system up and running.
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Google, Amazon, J&J Join WHO to Fight Covid-Era Smoking
Google, Amazon, and Johnson & Johnson have joined the World Health Organization effort to combat the global Covid-19 pandemic's threat to smokers, partly with artificial...
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A Hacker Used Twitter's Own 'Admin' Tool to Spread Cryptocurrency Scam
A hacker this week accessed an "admin" tool on Twitter to commandeer prominent Twitter accounts to spread a cryptocurrency scam, according to a person with direct...
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This Device Keeps Voice Assistants From Snooping on You
An international team of researchers has developed a Raspberry Pi-based device that eventually may be able to warn users when Amazon's Alexa and other voice assistants...
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A Life-Saving Jog to the Memory
An artificial intelligence-based sensor system can prevent children from being forgotten in locked cars.
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How 'Sustainable' Web Design Can Help Fight Climate Change
To cut the carbon, programmers are cutting the code. Call it green programming.
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A Brazen Online Attack Targets V.I.P. Twitter Users in a Bitcoin Scam
In a major show of force, hackers breached some of the site's most prominent accounts, a Who's Who of Americans in politics, entertainment and tech.
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Bill Gates-Backed Company to Hunt for Cobalt Near Glencore Mine
Kobold Metals, a startup backed by Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and others, aims to search for cobalt near a nickel mine in northern Quebec using data analytics.
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Supercomputer Finds Existing Osteoporosis Drug with Potential for Treating Covid-19
A European Union-supported supercomputing platform has identified a generic osteoporosis drug's potential effectiveness against Covid-19.
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