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Evidence Suggests The U.S. Loses Hundreds of Billions to Cybercrime
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology estimates 2016 losses due to cybercrime exceeded $160 billion.
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Training Agents to Walk with Purpose
A new classification algorithm for relational data is more accurate and orders of magnitude more efficient than previous methods.
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Don’t Kid Yourself: Online Lectures Are Here to Stay
The economic forces are too powerful for virtual instruction to go away after the pandemic. The important question is who will benefit financially, a Cornell economist...
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Evolutionary Algorithm Spawns ‘Living Robots’ from Frog Cells
When an evolutionary algorithm generates a successful robot design, the next step is usually to manufacture a physical robot from metals or plastics. Now, researchers...
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IBM Will No Longer Offer, Develop, or Research Facial Recognition Technology
IBM's CEO says we should reevaluate selling the technology to law enforcement.
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Penn State Researchers Evaluate 2020 Census Data Privacy Changes
The U.S. Census Bureau has proposed using differential privacy as a new method to protect the identities of individuals when publishing public data.
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Self-driving Cars Could only Prevent a Third of U.S. Crashes: Study
Traffic experts say nine in 10 crashes result from human error, and more than 36,000 people died in U.S. car crashes last year.
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The Epic Battle Against Coronavirus Misinformation and Conspiracy Theories
Scientists worldwide are scrambling to track and counter the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories about the coronavirus pandemic.
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Underwater Drones Join Hunt for Trillions in Mineral Riches Trapped on Ocean's Floor
The nascent seabed mining industry is using underwater drones to map the ocean floor in the hunt for precious minerals worth trillions.
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Colorblind Users Push Technology Designers to Use Signals Beyond Color
Colorblind users are pressing technology developers to redesign products to accommodate their disability.
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Encrypted Messaging App Signal Adds Facial Recognition Protection for Protesters
The Signal encrypted messaging app is introducing a blur tool to hide faces in photos before sharing them.
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A Robot Walks Into a Bar, Helps Make a Cocktail
Robo-bartenders are part of South Korea's cafe and bar scene as the country moves toward "distancing in daily life" amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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NYU Report Calls on Social Media Titans to Stop Outsourcing Content Moderation
The report says big social media companies need to use more of their own employees to make calls about which posts and photos should be removed.
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MSN Fires Journalists, Replaces Them With AI
Microsoft announced that it's laying off dozens of journalists, editors, and other workers at MSN and its other news divisions.
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2020 S. Barry Cooper Prize Awarded to Bruno Courcelle
The 2020 Conference Computability in Europe, which will take place virtually June 29 to July 3. will be the first to award the Barry Cooper Prize.
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Pioneer of Modern Data Center Design Receives Eckert-Mauchly Award
ACM and the IEEE Computer Society have named Google's Luiz Andre Barroso to receive the 2020 Eckert-Mauchly Award.
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Interactive Model Simulates Keeping House on Mars
The Arizona State University (ASU) School of Earth and Space Exploration Interplanetary Initiative is running a pilot program to assess simulated Mars habitats....
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'Artificial Chemist' Combines AI, Robotics to Conduct Autonomous R&D
A new technology combines artificial intelligence with robotics for conducting chemical reactions, to expedite R&D and synthesis of materials.
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Chip for Biomolecule Detection May Help in Covid-19 Testing
Purdue University researchers have built an application-specific integrated circuit chip for early detection of pathogens and viruses.
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