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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Why Voting Online Is Not the Way to Hold an Election in a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic's disruption to elections worldwide has rekindled interest in voting online, but experts warn it would be too vulnerable to breaches and cyberattacks...
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Muscle Signals Can Pilot a Robot
A new system taps human muscle signals via wearable sensors to pilot a robot.
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Quantum Entanglement Offers Precision for GPS, Imaging, More
Researchers combined two techniques—radio frequency (RF) photonics sensing and quantum metrology—to give sensor networks a never-before-achieved level of precision...
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The Pandemic is Bringing Us Closer to Our Robot Takeout Future
"We saw that business double overnight," startup says of UK grocery deliveries.
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Why a Data Security Expert Fears U.S. Voting Will Be Hacked
Finnish data security expert Harri Hursti worries the U.S. voting system is rife with unpatched vulnerabilities that leave it susceptible to election rigging.
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Robot Helping Hospitals Remotely Treat Coronavirus
A robot is being used at Brigham and Women's Hospital of Harvard University to handle remote triage of patients suspected of having COVID-19.
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AI Can Distinguish Between Bots, Humans Based on Twitter Activity
Researchers trained an artificial intelligence system to detect Twitter bots based on differences in the patterns of Tweeting activity of real and fake accounts...
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Virtual Army Rising Up to Protect Healthcare Groups From Hackers
White-hat hackers are helping thwart cybercriminals attempting to exploit healthcare organizations' increased reliance on networks during the COVID-19 pandemic....
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Flaw in iPhone, iPads May Have Allowed Hackers to Steal Data for Years
Apple will patch a flaw that iPhones and iPads may have harbored for years.
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Belgian Port to Test Virus Bracelets Amid Tech Tracing Fears
Teams of workers at the Belgian port of Antwerp are preparing to test a bracelet designed to help contain the coronavirus pandemic by enforcing social distancing...
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Optical Labs Set Terabit Transmission Records
Researchers were able to send 172 terabits per second of data through a single multicore fiber.
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Ford , Volkswagen Smart Cars May Come With Some Major Security Risks
A study by independent consumer body Which? found serious security flaws in connected cars from Ford and Volkswagen.
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France Says Apple Bluetooth Policy Is Blocking Virus Tracker
France said Apple's Bluetooth policy is delaying a government contact-tracing application designed to contain the coronavirus.
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U.K. Parliament Votes to Continue Democracy by Zoom
U.K. lawmakers on Tuesday unanimously voted to hold a "virtual Parliament" to maintain the machinery of democracy via the Zoom videoconferencing platform.
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Coronavirus Disruption Puts Supply Chain Software to the Test
Software firms are strengthening their algorithms as the coronavirus outbreak stresses food supply chains.
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Silicon Valley is Racing to Build the Next Version of the Internet. Fortnite Might Get There First.
In recent years, there's been serious talk about how to build the Metaverse, the next version of the Internet, and who will build it first.
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NASA Using Red and Blue 3D Glasses to Drive Mars Rover While Working From Home
Planners are remotely piloting the Curiosity rover on Mars while working from home.
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ACM Reports Best Practices for Virtual Conferences
A new report from ACM outlines best practices for replacing live science and technology conferences with virtual ones during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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