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How to Stay Anonymous Online
Anonymity networks protect people living under repressive regimes from surveillance of their Internet use. But the recent discovery of vulnerabilities in the most...
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'super Mario Brothers' Is Hard
Researchers found the problem of solving a level in the "Super Mario Brothers" video game is as challenging as the most vexing problems in the PSPACE complexity...
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Automatic Bug Finder
Researchers have moved closer to enabling symbolic execution of applications written via programming frameworks.
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We Know Where You Live
Researchers have demonstrated that snoopers armed with little sophisticated technology can expose the home and workplace addresses of Twitter users.
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Ingestible Origami Robot
Researchers have demonstrated an origami robot that can unfold from a ingestible capsule and use external magnetic fields to navigate across the stomach wall.
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Self-Driving Cars, Meet Rubber Duckies
A course in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory aimed to create a fleet of duckie-adorned self-driving...
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Robotic Consensus
Planning algorithms for teams of robots fall into two categories: centralized algorithms, in which a single computer makes decisions for the whole team, and decentralized...
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Browsing in Public
The new Eyebrowse system enables Web users to share self-selected aspects of their online activity with their friends and the general public.
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Enabling Human-Robot Rescue Teams
Researchers say they have developed a new way of modeling robot collaboration.
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A Virtual 'guide Dog' For Navigation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have modified an algorithm for processing three-dimensional camera data, with power conservation in mind.
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Energy-Friendly Chip Can Perform Powerful Artificial-Intelligence Tasks
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers this week introduced a new chip that implements neural networks.
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Recognizing Correct Code
A new machine-learning system can analyze repairs made to open source programs, learn their general properties, and produce new repairs for other programs.
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Deep-Learning Algorithm Predicts Photos' Memorability at "near-Human" Levels
Researchers say they have developed an algorithm that can predict how memorable or forgettable a given image is almost as accurately as humans.
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Untraceable Communication Guaranteed
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have unveiled an untraceable text-messaging system designed to foil even the most powerful adversaries.
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Untraceable Communication—guaranteed
Anonymity networks, which sit on top of the public Internet, are designed to conceal people’s Web-browsing habits from prying eyes.
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What Are Your Apps Hiding?
Researchers have found the user experience is largely unaffected by much of the data transferred between the top 500 free Google Android cellphone applications. ...
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How Wireless 'x-Ray Vision' Could Power Virtual Reality, Smart Homes, and Hollywood
The new RF Capture technology can pick up wireless reflections off the human body to visualize the silhouette of a person concealed behind a wall.
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A Basis For All Cryptography
The inability to practically apply indistinguishability obfuscation to deliver secure cryptography may be mitigated with an efficient method for functional encryption...
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Predicting Change in the Alzheimer's Brain
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are developing a computer system that uses multiple types of data to help predict the effects of disease on brain...
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