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.K. Drones Map Chernobyl's 'Red Forest'
U.K. researchers used a drone-mapping system they developed to survey Chernobyl's "Red Forest," one of the most radioactive locations on Earth.
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Amazon Accused of Violating Kids' Privacy With Smart Speakers
Privacy and child-advocacy organizations have filed a complaint alleging Amazon has been illegally recording and retaining conversations of children using its Echo...
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The Pentagon's Drones May Soon Run on Open Source Software
The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Innovation Unit has reached a deal with Swiss company Auterion to enhance the agency's open source drone software.
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New Approach Could Accelerate Efforts to Catalog Vast Numbers of Cells
A new technique can derive fully comprehensive samples, or "sketches," of vast cellular datasets, to simplify analysis.
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Hacking the Body Electric
Electroceuticals use electricity, rather than chemicals, to treat the body's ills.
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Google Will Give sers More Control Over Who Tracks Them Online
Google is modifying its Chrome Web browser to give users more control over parties who track their online habits.
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Drones in Aisle 5? Grocery Stores Becoming nusual Hotbeds of Innovation
Texas-based data subscription service Pensa has created a drone and its underlying artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance grocery operations.
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Microsoft Offers Software Tools to Secure Elections
Microsoft is working with Galois to develop open source software to secure elections.
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Making a 'To Do' List for Trauma Docs
Researchers have created and implemented the first digital procedural checklist for trauma centers.
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Why Is This Ostrich Wearing an Extra Set of Wings?
Researchers used robotic technology and young ostriches wearing artificial wings to gain insight into how a dinosaur's running gait may have caused its wings to...
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Show Your Hands: Smartwatches Sense Hand Activity
Researchers now can determine when a standard smartwatch wearer is typing on a keyboard, washing dishes, petting a dog, pouring from a pitcher, or cutting with...
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What Deep Learning Reveals About Saturn's Storms
Researchers have developed a deep learning approach that identifies and maps the components and features in turbulent regions of Saturn's atmosphere.
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Genetic Testing Has a Data Problem. New Software Can Help.
Researchers at Purdue University have developed a new tool designed to process data too large to fit on a computer's main memory at one time.
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Prototyping Faster with Laser Cutters
Laser cutting tools could outperform three-dimensional printers at prototyping stretchables, wearables.
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The Microbots Are on Their Way
A researcher at the University of Pennsylvania has developed tiny robots, thousands of which can fit side by side on a single silicon wafer.
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White House Kicks Off Effort to Develop AI Standards
The White House Office of Science and Technology has launched a request for information seeking insight into developing standards around artificial intelligence...
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Patterns of Compulsive Smartphone se Suggest How to Kick the Habit
A study to determine why people compulsively check their phones found a series of triggers, common across age groups, that start and end habitual smartphone use...
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Early Warning System Predicts Risk of Online Students Dropping Out
Researchers in Spain have developed a predictive modeling system for personalized student dropout rates.
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Oregon's a Testing Ground for Amazon's Facial Recognition Policing, But What if Rekognition Gets it Wrong?
Police in Washington County, OR, have used a facial-recognition algorithm from Amazon to publicly test new surveillance techniques for more than a year.
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