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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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How a Single Car Could Spread Malware to Thousands More
Over the last summer, the security research community has proven like never before that cars are vulnerable to hackers—via cellular Internet connections, intercepted...
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Eurathlon 2015 Announces Grand Challenge Winners
The euRathlon consortium has announced the winners of its 2015 Grand Challenge after several days of competition in September in Piombino, Italy.
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The Jocks of Computer Code Do It For the Job Offers
At 21, Gennady Vladimirovich Korotkevich is already a legend. Tourist, as he's known online, is now the world's top sport programmer.
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Neural Implant Enables Paralyzed Als Patient to Type Six Words Per Minute
Typing six words per minute may not sound very impressive. But for paralyzed people typing via a brain-computer interface (BCI), it's a new world record.
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Computer Algorithm Created to Encode Human Memories
Researchers at the University of Southern California and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have spent 10 years developing an implant to help a brain encode memories...
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A Light Touch: Embedded Optical Sensors Could Make Robotic Hands More Dexterous
Researchers have developed a three-fingered soft robotic hand with multiple embedded fiber-optic sensors, as well as a new type of stretchable optical sensor.
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That Big Security Fix For Credit Cards Won't Stop Fraud
Tomorrow is the deadline that Visa and MasterCard have set for banks and retailers across the U.S. to roll out a new system for more secure bank cards with microchips...
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Engineering Humans For War
Retired four-star general Paul F. Gorman recalls first learning about the "weakling of the battlefield" from reading S.L.A. Marshall, the U.S. Army combat historian...
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Researchers Study sers to Increase Cybersecurity
How unexpected human behavior on computers can make systems vulnerable is the focus of researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology.
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Physicists Find New Explanation For Key Experiment
Bielefeld University researchers have developed a new measurement method for "spin caloritronics."
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Diagnostic Apps For Adhd, Dementia?
IBM Israel won the top prize at the Brain Inspired Technology for Education Hackathon for an application that screens for attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder...
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Research Sheds New Light on Big Data Breaches
Researchers have found the number of large data breaches has decreased slightly since 2005.
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Complex Car Software Becomes the Weak Spot nder the Hood
Shwetak N. Patel looked over the 2013 Mercedes C300 and saw not a sporty all-wheel-drive sedan, but a bundle of technology.
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Scientists Stop and Search Malware Hidden in Shortened rls on Twitter
Cardiff University researchers have developed a technique for detecting tweets containing malicious links.
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Github Open Sources a Tool That Teaches Students to Code
GitHub, which has long been a fixture of the coding world, increasingly is becoming an integral part of coding education.
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Study Suggests London nderground May Be 'too Fast'
A computer model of the London Underground predicts trains that travel too fast compound congestion when key locations outside the city center become bottlenecks...
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Election Polling: When 'who Will Win?' Beats 'who Do You Like?'
Statisticians and political scientists are more reliant on the question, "Who do you think will actually win?" than "Who do you like?" when it comes to predictive...
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Google AI Beats Humans at More Classic Arcade Games Than Ever Before
Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence has been upgraded to defeat human players in 1980s arcade games even better than before.
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Automotive Systems Get Smarter
Automotive infotainment systems are driving changes to automobiles, and to driver behavior.
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