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Facebook Will Now Remind You When It's Not the Only One Looking at Your Data
Facebook users will now receive notifications reminding them that third parties have a glimpse into their information, and that controls are available to restrict...
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How to Beat South Korea's AI Hiring Bots and Land a Job
Major South Korean companies are using artificial intelligence (AI) to screen job applicants, giving rise to an industry to help job-seekers beat these systems. ...
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Grindr, OkCupid Spread Personal Details, Study Says
Online dating services are spreading personal user information in ways that may violate privacy laws in Europe and elsewhere.
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As Justice Department Pressures Apple, Investigators Say iPhone is Easier to Crack
The U.S. Department of Justice ia pressuring Apple to unlock two iPhones owned by a Saudi student who allegedly killed three people on a U.S. Naval base in Florida...
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Samsung's Neon 'Artificial Humans' Look Like Super-Realistic Video Chatbots
At CES 2020, Samsung's STAR Labs research group unveiled Neon, a simulated human assistant.
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Why the Quantum Internet Should Be Built in Space
Louisiana State University researchers have proposed a satellite array for building a global quantum Internet to broadcast entangled photon pairs to two different...
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Just When You Thought Your Smart Bulbs Were Secure, Think Again.
Light can “jump the air gap.”
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Using a Robot to Deploy Robots in Remote Oceans
Researchers designed an unmanned surface vessel to deploy research equipment in remote and inaccessible ocean locations.
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Bosch Deploys AI to Prevent Attacks on Car Electronics
Engineering company Robert Bosch is deploying artificial intelligence to fortify cars' electronic systems against hackers who attempt to feed the systems intentionally...
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Hundreds of Millions of Cable Modems Vulnerable to Cable Haunt Vulnerability
Danish researchers reported a security vulnerability affecting cable modems that use Broadcom chips, which is believed to impact about 200 million cable modems...
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AI for #MeToo: Training Algorithms to Spot Online Trolls
Researchers have demonstrated that machine learning algorithms can track evolving online social media conversations, which could eventually yield an automated method...
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Facebook Bans 'Deepfake' Videos
Facebook has banned doctored videos, or deepfakes, designed to spread misinformation as the 2020 U.S. presidential election approaches.
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Baidu Has Trick for Teaching AI the Meaning of Language
Chinese technology company Baidu outperformed Microsoft and Google in the General Language Understanding Evaluation, a benchmark for artificial intelligence comprehension...
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5G Underwhelms in Its First Big Test
Users of 5G services say the first implementation of the next-generation network technology in South Korea has fallen short of expectations.
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Researchers Try to Teach Computers to Forecast Traffic Like the Weather
Netherlands-based location/transportation data supplier Here Technologies has pushed researchers to apply big-data techniques to films of traffic in Berlin, Istanbul...
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People Too Trusting of Virtual Assistants
Researchers have found that people tend to share increasingly more with online agents because of their tendency to assign them personalities and physical features...
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Gym Class Without the Gym? With Technology, It's Catching On
Wearable fitness trackers are helping make online physical education more popular for students by adding the dimension of accountability.
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Russia Announces 'Successful Test' of Its Unplugged Internet
Russia's Ministry of Communications announced a successful test of a nationwide alternative to the Internet and claimed ordinary users did not detect any changes...
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