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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Biotech Companies Tap AI to Speed Path to Coronavirus Treatments
Companies seeking treatments for the coronavirus increasingly are using artificial intelligence to speed up their drug-discovery efforts.
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Introducing the Light-Operated Hard Drives of Tomorrow
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne created a proof of concept platform for hard drives that will be smaller, faster, and more energy...
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The Battle Over Autonomous Killing Machines
Should lethal autonomous weapon systems be programmed to strike and kill without direct human oversight?
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Record Set for Cryptographic Challenge
A team of computer scientists in France and the U.S. has set a record for integer factorization, a major challenge in the security of most public key cryptography...
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Education Robots Offer Leg-Up to Disadvantaged Students
Some education experts think robots can help disadvantaged children.
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Where AI Jobs are Exploding in Number (It's Not in Silicon Valley)
Four states account for 90% of all ZipRecruiter-advertised jobs requiring advanced artificial intelligence skills, and 60% of all artificial intelligence jobs on...
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Small Robots Could Help Look After Salmon Without Stressing Them Out
Salmon seem to prefer small robots to larger ones, a discovery that could help guide how fish farms are automated.
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Panel Outlines Massive Federal Cybersecurity Overhaul
The Congressional Cyberspace Solarium Commission report on the state of cybersecurity in the U.S. included sweeping recommendations for shoring up cyberdefense....
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Buffed-Up Avatars Deter Us From Exercising Hard
Researchers demonstrated that virtual reality users are more likely to exercise better when vying with realistic, rather than idealized, avatars of themselves. ...
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Facebook, Twitter Suspend Russian-Linked Operation Targeting African Americans on Social Media
Facebook and Twitter suspended a Russian-linked campaign designed to inflame racial tensions among African Americans in the U.S.
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How Secure Are Four, Six-Digit Mobile Phone PINs?
Information technology security experts assessing personal identification numbers codes for securing smartphones found six-digit PINs offer little more security...
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Tech Firms Seek to Head Off Bans on Facial Recognition
Technology companies increasingly are backing proposed laws that would limit the use of facial recognition systems, in an effort to head off more restrictive bills...
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Research Team Develops Voice Localization Techniques for Smart Speakers
Researchers have created a system that uses the Amazon Alexa smart speaker's microphone array in combination with echoes of one’s voice to localize a user's whereabouts...
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Modern RAM Still Vulnerable to Rowhammer Attacks
Extensive mitigations deployed during the last six years have failed to eliminate modern random-access memory (RAM) cards' vulnerability to Rowhammer exploits. ...
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Showing Robots How to Do Your Chores
A new system allows robots to learn complicated tasks that would normally confuse them with too many complicated rules.
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A Filter for Cleaner Qubits
Researchers in Japan have developed a way to increase the lifetime of qubits inside quantum computers, through the use of an additional "filter" qubit.
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China Tech Groups Censored Information About Coronavirus
Researchers said Chinese social media platforms censored keywords related to the coronavirus outbreak as early as December, potentially limiting the Chinese public's...
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Spy in Your Pocket
Smartphones can analyze virtually every aspect of your personality, beliefs, and behaviors.
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Edinburgh Researchers Use Drones to Map Retreating Andes Glaciers
Researchers are using drones to capture images of some of the tallest glaciers in the Andes Mountains as they retreat, the result of climate change.
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