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Additive Manufacturing: A New Twist For Stretchable Electronics?
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Additive Manufacturing: A New Twist For Stretchable Electronics?

Missouri University of Science & Technology researchers are studying electronic components that can be elongated or twisted, which could soon be used to power a...

Utsa Study Shows How Phishing Scams Thrive on Overconfidence
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Utsa Study Shows How Phishing Scams Thrive on Overconfidence

University of Texas at San Antonio researchers have examined overconfidence in detecting phishing emails, based on the theory that most people believe they are...

50 Things That Made the Modern Economy
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50 Things That Made the Modern Economy

The Compiler.

Vr Trauma Surgery 101: Going For the Grisly
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Vr Trauma Surgery 101: Going For the Grisly

Medical students experience the controlled chaos of trauma surgery, virtually.

'transfer Learning' Jump-Starts New AI Projects
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'transfer Learning' Jump-Starts New AI Projects

Abstracting and reusing knowledge gleaned from a machine-learning application in other, newer apps--or "transfer learning"--is supplementing other learning methods...

Hubble Provides Interstellar Road Map For Voyagers' Galactic Trek
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Hubble Provides Interstellar Road Map For Voyagers' Galactic Trek

NASA's two Voyager spacecraft are hurtling through unexplored territory on their road trip beyond our solar system.

Data Could Be the Next Tech Hot Button For Regulators
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Data Could Be the Next Tech Hot Button For Regulators

Wealth and influence in the technology business have always been about gaining the upper hand in software or the machines that software ran on.

Transistor Stretchier Than Skin For ­ltra-Flexible Wearable Tech
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Transistor Stretchier Than Skin For ­ltra-Flexible Wearable Tech

Stanford University researchers have developed a new transistor that can be stretched to twice its length without losing conductivity, making it well-suited for...

­ltrasound Tracking Could Be ­sed to Deanonymize Tor ­sers
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­ltrasound Tracking Could Be ­sed to Deanonymize Tor ­sers

Ultrasounds emitted by ads or JavaScript code hidden on a page accessed through the Tor Browser can deanonymize Tor users by making nearby phones or computers send...

Attackers Can Make It Impossible to Dial 911
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Attackers Can Make It Impossible to Dial 911

A new cyberattack strategy can block access to 911 emergency services by exploiting vulnerabilities in the system.

Caring Cyborgs
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Caring Cyborgs

Social robots designed to interact with people could act as caregivers for the elderly and children, but current models struggle to understand and mimic the subtleties...

Back to Self-Driving School: The Simulator Teaching Vehicle Ais Road Sense
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Back to Self-Driving School: The Simulator Teaching Vehicle Ais Road Sense

Researchers have developed a simulator employing convolutional neural networks and deep learning to enhance how vehicle artificial intelligence systems manage environmental...

Pcast Releases Report on Ensuring ­.s. Leadership in Semiconductors
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Pcast Releases Report on Ensuring ­.s. Leadership in Semiconductors

The Computing Research Association has been involved in shaping public policy of relevance to computing research for more than two decades.

Complexity Theory Problem Strikes Back
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Complexity Theory Problem Strikes Back

The legendary graph isomorphism problem may be harder than a 2015 result seemed to suggest.

Your Home Planet, as Seen From Mars
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Your Home Planet, as Seen From Mars

From the most powerful telescope orbiting Mars comes a new view of Earth and its moon, showing continent-size detail on the planet and the relative size of the...

­CLA Mathematicians Bring Ocean to Life For Disney's 'moana'
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­CLA Mathematicians Bring Ocean to Life For Disney's 'moana'

University of California, Los Angeles researchers applied their knowledge of math, physics, and computer science to help animate "Moana," a three-dimensional computer...

States Wire ­p Roads as Cars Get Smarter
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States Wire ­p Roads as Cars Get Smarter

To prepare for the day when self-driving cars will travel on technology-aided roads, U.S. state transit planners aim to outfit those roadways with fiber optics,...

Tech Trends in 2017: Energy Harvesting
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Tech Trends in 2017: Energy Harvesting

Some experts see energy harvesting technology as essential to successfully realizing the Internet of Things, and research into micro-scale energy harvesting has...

Man vs. AI Machine in Texas Hold'em Matchup
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Man vs. AI Machine in Texas Hold'em Matchup

Four top professional poker players will challenge an artificial intelligence system in a 20-day Heads-Up No-Limit Texas Hold'em poker tournament billed as an "epic...

Cyberwar For Sale
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Cyberwar For Sale

On the morning of May 18, 2014, Violeta Lagunes was perplexed by a series of strange messages that appeared in her Gmail inbox.
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