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Announcing the 2022 AI Index Report
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Announcing the 2022 AI Index Report

The AI Index tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data relating to artificial intelligence.

Leaked Ransomware Docs Show Conti Helping Putin From the Shadows
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Leaked Ransomware Docs Show Conti Helping Putin From the Shadows

Members of the hacker gang may act in Russia's interest, but their links to the FSB and Cozy Bear hackers appear ad hoc.

Dual Use of AI-powered Drug Discovery
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Dual Use of AI-powered Drug Discovery

An international security conference explored how artificial intelligence technologies for drug discovery could be misused for de novo design of biochemical weapons...

Battery-free Devices Float on the Wind like Dandelion Seeds
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Battery-free Devices Float on the Wind like Dandelion Seeds

University of Washington researchers have developed a tiny battery-free device that can be blown by wind currents, like dandelion seeds.

Could the Internet be Driven by Climate-friendly 'Natural Intelligence'?
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Could the Internet be Driven by Climate-friendly 'Natural Intelligence'?

The Solar Protocol project aims to highlight the environmental impact of the Internet, the devices and systems that use it, and the servers that support it.

How MIT's Robot Cheetah Got Its Speed
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How MIT's Robot Cheetah Got Its Speed

Researchers have designed a new version of the Mini Cheetah robot that can achieve high running speeds more efficiently than its predecessors.

See 'Spot' Save: Robot Dogs Join NY Fire Department
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See 'Spot' Save: Robot Dogs Join NY Fire Department

Plans to use two new robot dogs only in precarious search and rescue missions may help avoid the controversy that met the Police Department's robots last year. ...

AI Predicts Algae Potential as Alternative Energy Source
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AI Predicts Algae Potential as Alternative Energy Source

Scientists at Texas A&M AgriLife Research and the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory used artificial intelligence to surpass a targeted...

New Attack Amplifies DDoSes by 4 Billion-Fold
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New Attack Amplifies DDoSes by 4 Billion-Fold

New technique also stretches out distributed denial of service durations to 14 hours.

Smartphone App Calculates Genetic Risk for Heart Attack
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Smartphone App Calculates Genetic Risk for Heart Attack

Scripps Research uses DNA data from 23andMe to calculate risk for coronary artery disease.

Computer Simulates Schools of Fishlike Underwater Research Drones
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Computer Simulates Schools of Fishlike Underwater Research Drones

An international team of researchers has created a three-dimensional simulation of small fish swimming that could improve aquatic research robots designed to mimic...

WARNING: Objects in Driverless Car Sensors May Be Closer Than They Appear
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WARNING: Objects in Driverless Car Sensors May Be Closer Than They Appear

Researchers have identified an attack strategy that can trick industry-standard autonomous vehicle sensors into believing nearby objects are closer or further than...

U.S. Casts a Global Net to Stop Shipments to Russia
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U.S. Casts a Global Net to Stop Shipments to Russia

To try to halt the war in Ukraine, the U.S. and its allies have imposed the most sweeping export controls seen in decades on Russia. Now they have to enforce them...

'No-Code' Brings the Power of AI to the Masses
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'No-Code' Brings the Power of AI to the Masses

Products allow anyone to use AI without writing any computer code.

To Catch a Falling Satellite
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To Catch a Falling Satellite

Researchers lean on NASA Astrobee robots to try to contain and stabilize out-of-control satellites.

Russia Faces IT Crisis with Just Two Months of Data Storage Left
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Russia Faces IT Crisis with Just Two Months of Data Storage Left

The withdrawal of Western cloud computing companies from Russia has left the country with roughly two months before it runs out of IT data storage.

Here Come the Artificial Intelligence Nutritionists
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Here Come the Artificial Intelligence Nutritionists

Companies are experimenting with personalized diet apps, saying the future of healthy eating is A.I.

How California Is Building the Nation's First Privacy Police
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How California Is Building the Nation's First Privacy Police

A new state agency has a $10-million budget to regulate Google, Facebook and others. But first it needs to be created.

AI Can Help Historians Restore Ancient Texts
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AI Can Help Historians Restore Ancient Texts

DeepMind AI tool helps historians restore ancient Greek texts with 72% accuracy with human help

Twitter Unveils Version of Site That Can Bypass Russia Block
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Twitter Unveils Version of Site That Can Bypass Russia Block

Twitter has launched a version of its service that can circumvent Russia's attempts to block and censor the flow of information about its Ukraine invasion.
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