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Ed Tech Wrongfully Tracked Schoolchildren During Pandemic: Human Rights Watch
A study of 164 government-endorsed education technology products found 146 endangered children's privacy by collecting and selling their data to ad tech companies...
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ORNL's Frontier First to Break the Exaflop Ceiling
The 59th edition of the TOP500 revealed the Frontier system to be the first true exascale machine with an HPL score of 1.102 Exaflop/s.
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AI Predicts Potential Nutrient Deficiencies from Space
Geographic areas with populations at high risk of micronutrient deficiencies can be identified using publicly available satellite data and artificial intelligence...
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Smart Dissolving Pacemaker Communicates with Body-Area Sensor, Control Network
Northwestern Medicine Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University scientists have unveiled a smart version of a transient pacemaker, which dissolvesView...
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Could Contact Lenses Be the Ultimate Computer Screen?
Saratoga, CA-based Mojo is one of a number of companies currently testing smart contact lens products.
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Error-Free Quantum Computing Gets Real
The researchers implemented two computational gates on fault-tolerant quantum bits, which are necessary for a universal set of gates.
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Accused of Cheating by an Algorithm, and a Professor She Had Never Met
An unsettling glimpse at the digitization of education.
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Algorithm Optimally Divvies up Tasks for Human-Robot Teams
The team's work could be valuable in manufacturing and assembly plants, for sorting packages, or in any environment where humans and robots collaborate to complete...
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Philadelphia Launches Real-Time Smart City Project
The SmartCityPHL project in Philadelphia is a partnership of the city, Comcast, and US Ignite to help collect real-time data on air quality, weather, transportation...
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Using Light, Sound to Reveal Rapid Brain Activity in Unprecedented Detail
Duke University researchers have developed an approach that allows for real-time scanning and imaging of blood flow and oxygen levels in a mouse brain.
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An Electric Connection: Homes Helping the Grid
Researchers have invented technology that could reduce strain on the national power grid by controlling residential appliances more efficiently.
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Uber Launches Robot Food Delivery in California
Uber has rolled out pilot food delivery services that use autonomous vehicles in Santa Monica and West Hollywood, CA.
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'Quantum Internet' Inches Closer With Advance in Data Teleportation
Scientists have improved their ability to send quantum information across distant computers—and have taken another step toward the network of the future.
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Countermeasure Against Unwanted Wireless Surveillance
A new system protects privacy in wireless communications based on intelligent reflective surfaces.
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AI Powered Autonomous Cargo Ship for 500 Miles
A 749-gross-ton vessel is the first commercial cargo ship to be navigated entirely by artificial intelligence during a nearly 500-mile, 40-hour journey.
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Trilobite-Inspired Camera Boasts Huge Depth of Field
Chinese and U.S. researchers collaborated on the development of a camera with a massive depth of field.
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Americans Have Their Sensitive Online Activity Exposed Over 700 Times Daily
Real-time bidding is a process that runs in the background on websites and apps and tracks what you look at, no matter how private or sensitive it is.
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Why Isn't New Technology Making Us More Productive?
Innovations like cloud computing and artificial intelligence are hailed as engines of a coming productivity revival, but a broad payoff across the economy has been...
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U.S. Civil Rights Enforcers Warn Employers Against Biased AI
The U.S. government has warned employers that artificial intelligence technology for screening new job candidates or tracking productivity could violate civil rights...
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