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Sloppy Use of Machine Learning Is Causing a 'Reproducibility Crisis' in Science
AI hype has researchers in fields from medicine to sociology rushing to use techniques they don't always understand—causing a wave of spurious results.
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Sloppy Software Patches Are a 'Disturbing Trend'
The Zero Day Initiative has found a concerning uptick in security updates that fail to fix vulnerabilities.
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Meta Lets Algorithm Pick 60 Employees to Fire
The staff had no warning and noone to appeal to; all video calls were anonymized.
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The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score
Across industries and incomes, more employees are being tracked, recorded and ranked. What is gained, companies say, is efficiency and accountability. What is lost...
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Flaw in VA's Medical Records Platform May Put Patients at Risk
Security researcher Zachary Minneker discovered a flaw in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' VistA records platform and determined that hackers easily can...
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Gaming for Science: How Video Games Are Making Research Fun
Video games paired with citizen science are increasingly being used by researchers to make data collection and analysis fun and rewarding.
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Artificial Neuron Swaps Dopamine with Rat Brain Cells Like a Real One
Could be incorporated into future human-machine interfaces.
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Bartending Robot Can Make Small Talk
Drink-mixing machine uses machine learning algorithms to interact with customers.
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World's Largest Mechanical Robot Suit
Prosthesis is the world's largest four-legged exoskeleton, described as 'a cross between an excavator, a dune buggy, and a dinosaur.'
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Amazon Expands Palm-Scanning Payment Tech to 65 More Whole Foods Locations
Amazon plans to expand its Amazon One palm-scanner payment technology to more than 65 Whole Foods stores in California.
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AI May Come to the Rescue of Future Firefighters
A new artificial intelligence model could warn firefighters of imminent combustion or flashovers.
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FEC Greenlights Google Plan to Loosen Spam Filters, Overcoming Democratic Challenge
Under the pilot program, campaigns would be able to circumvent algorithmic sorting by tech companies that at times sends their emails to spam.
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Self-Taught AI Shows Similarities to How the Brain Works
Self-supervised learning allows a neural network to figure out for itself what matters. The process might be what makes our own brains so successful.
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Team Develops Approach for Building Quantum Computers
An interdisciplinary team has developed a method for building quantum computers based on atomic building blocks that are custom-designed by chemists.
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Mathematical Modeling Could Lead to Simple Blood Test for Brain Tumors
New mathematical models can assess the use of biomarkers for detecting glioblastomas (GBMs) and their potential for improvement.
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IoT RapperBot Malware Targeting Linux Servers via SSH Brute-Forcing Attack
Researchers at FortiGuard Labs reported that an Internet of Things (IoT) botnet malware identified in mid-June has been evolving rapidly.
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Researchers Discover Major Roadblock in Alleviating Network Congestion
Researchers found congestion control algorithms fail to prevent certain users from taking up all the bandwidth.
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'Qudit' Computers Go Beyond Ones and Zeroes
New machine works with eight qudits, each capable of encoding seven states at once.
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