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New York City Takes Aim at AI
The Big Apple fields an action plan for artificial intelligence.
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Breaking the Scaling Limits of Analog Computing
New technique could diminish errors that hamper the performance of super-fast analog optical neural networks.
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Websites Have Way More Trackers Now
Analysts at NordVPN found the average website has 48 trackers monitoring visitors' activity and recording their private data.
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San Francisco Will Allow Police to Deploy Robots That Kill
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted to grant city police the option to deploy potentially lethal robots in emergency situations.
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Programming Tool Turns Handwriting into Computer Code
A team of Cornell University researchers created the Notate interface to translate handwriting and sketches into computer code.
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SBOM: An Up-Close Look at a Software Bill of Materials
A software bill of materials lists the "ingredients" in a software product, making it easier to identify and avoid security risks.
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Cybercriminals Cashing In on FIFA World Cup-Themed Cyberattacks
"Companies that are FIFA sponsors should bolster their security mechanisms and stay up to date on threat actors' tactics and techniques," said a CloudSEK researcher...
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How a Cyberattack Plunged a Long Island County Into the 1990s
Suffolk County officials had to return to the days of paper checks and faxes after an episode that exposed government weaknesses.
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Apple Says Your iPhone's Usage Data is Anonymous, but Tests Say That's Not True
Researchers found Apple is collecting personally identifiable information from iPhones, despite the company’s promises that the devices' usage data is anonymous...
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The Long Road to Driverless Trucks
Self-driving eighteen-wheelers are on U.S. highways, but there are still human "safety drivers" behind the wheel. What will it take to get them out?
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Lawsuit Takes Aim at the Way A.I. Is Built
A programmer is suing Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI over artificial intelligence technology that generates its own computer code.
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Meet the 'Smartest Office Building in the World'
The 31-story JTC Summit smart office building in Singapore incorporates a network of approximately 60,000 sensors to collect data from various building systems....
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Online Advertising Estimated to Use as Much Energy as a Small Country
Researchers have developed a system that can calculate energy consumption related to online advertising.
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Self-Driving Robot Patrols Seoul Streets
South Korea has launched its first autonomous urban patrol robot, which patrols the streets of Seoul monitoring in search of dangerous situations.
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Meet Your New Corporate Office Mate: A 'Brainless' Robot
Naver, a South Korean Internet firm, is trying to introduce robots into the world of cubicles and conference rooms without making employees uncomfortable.
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Experimental Wearable Pops Its Top to Send Drowning Alerts
An experimental device under development by scientists at Australia's Macquarie University is designed to alert lifeguards when its wearer is drowning.
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Chip Sandwich Pushes Boundaries of Computing, Data Transmission Efficiency
Engineers have developed an ultrafast electronic/photonic chip sandwich that generates minimal heat.
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Quantum Computers Vulnerable to Eavesdropping Hackers
Allen Mi and colleagues at Yale University warn that even carefully wiping quantum computers of data would not thwart its theft by hackers.
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The World Generates So Much Data that New Unit Measurements Were Created to Keep Up
The new prefixes come at a time when scientists and industries are dealing with data that need measurements going beyond the current range.
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Hackers Strand Vanuatu's Government
A suspected cyberattack has disabled the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu's government since November 4.
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