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The goal of the $20-million smart intersections project is to have intersections communicate with the technology in cars to warn drivers of potential dangers that could cause a crash.
Energy developers want to build a ton of wind and solar — they just can't get it connected to the grid.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating reports that General Motors' Cruise autonomous robotaxis can brake too quickly or stop moving unexpectedly.
A computational analysis supports the idea that photons colliding with heavy ions can create a fluid of “strongly interacting” particles.
Officials from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's 38 member-states finalized a framework to limit governments' access to citizens' personal data.
The amount of money deployed indicates an ability to address systemic industry challenges and opens up access to low-cost capital.
Gatekeeper is a macOS security feature that automatically checks all apps downloaded from the Internet if they are notarized and developer-signed (approved by Apple).
The female computing pioneer drew on lessons from her artistic pursuits.
Beijing typically "retaliates fully plus 10 percent," but this time it doesn't seem to have many punitive options.
Online food ordering and delivery platform Uber Eats has launched a robot food delivery service in Miami via a partnership with robotics firm Cartken.
Massive cyberattacks targeting hospitals in India have undermined the nation's healthcare digitization initiatives.
An HP survey of 10,000 office workers worldwide found Generation Z employees are most likely to feel technological frustration at work.
Forty years after the Internet was born, one of its pioneers calls for more critical thinking about how we use it.
The final part of a podcast series on the transistor.
Yuval Werber and colleagues at Israel's University of Haifa invented a drone that makes noise and flashes lights to prevent bats from colliding with turbine blades at wind farms.
Warehouse robots increasingly are able to grasp and sort objects of various shapes and sizes with the dexterity of human hands.
An international team of scientists led by Germany's Ruhr-Universität Bochum is developing new techniques to efficiently identify coding errors in embedded systems.
These past few years have been visceral reminders of our mortality. But new technologies can offer a way for us and our loved ones to live on.
The team says its machine learning model can accurately predict the complex molecular changes that determine a drug's effectiveness.
New regulations from China's Cyberspace Administration that go into effect Jan. 10, 2023, ban the creation of media using artificial intelligence without watermarks or other clear labels.
A multi-institutional team of researchers has devised a framework for analyzing multiancestry genomic studies across multiple biobanks.
Researchers devised a method that could be used by attackers to access sensitive business and customer information by bypassing Web application firewalls to infiltrate systems.
Pennsylvania State University researchers have developed an automated technique that uses machine learning to identify doxing on social media.
Maersk and IBM last month shut down their global platform that was supposed to bring blockchain to the shipping industry. Other big bets are moving slowly.
A database with contact information for elite cybersecurity professionals is now being sold on the dark web to the highest bidder.
Adversarial policy attacks blind spots in the artificial intelligence—with broader implications than games.
Researchers identify a security loophole in the wireless standard.
Yet the threat remains pervasive.
Three-quarters of devices that keep facilities like electricity and water treatment plants safe and operational have severe, unpatched cybersecurity vulnerabilities, researchers found.
Researchers have developed a method for retrieving private information from a database that is approximately 30 times faster than comparable methods.