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December 2022


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Researcher Exploits Power Supply to Transmit, Steal Data from PC

Researcher Exploits Power Supply to Transmit, Steal Data from PC

Mordechai Guri at Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev transmitted stolen data from a personal computer by manipulating the device's power supply.


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Robots Set Their Sights on New Job: Sewing Blue Jeans

Robots Set Their Sights on New Job: Sewing Blue Jeans

Siemens has been working with clothing companies on efforts to automate apparel manufacturing.


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Reconfiguring It Out

Reconfiguring It Out

A researcher plumbs reconfigurable quantum circuits for high-performance computers and cellphones.


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The Real Fusion Energy Breakthrough Is Still Decades Away

The Real Fusion Energy Breakthrough Is Still Decades Away

U.S. nuclear scientists have achieved the long-sought goal of a fusion ignition — but don't expect this clean technology to power the grid yet.


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Self-Driving Taxis Are Causing All Kinds of Trouble in San Francisco

Self-Driving Taxis Are Causing All Kinds of Trouble in San Francisco

They have blocked traffic, driven on the sidewalk, sped away from cops — and the city is powerless to stop them.


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Coalition Formed to Increase Hispanic Participation in Computer Science

Coalition Formed to Increase Hispanic Participation in Computer Science

National nonprofits and organizations unite efforts to boost Hispanic representation in computer science.


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The World-Changing Race to Develop the Quantum Computer

The World-Changing Race to Develop the Quantum Computer

Such a device could help address climate change and food scarcity, or break the Internet. Will the U.S. or China get there first?


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Computational System Streamlines Design of Fluidic Devices

Computational System Streamlines Design of Fluidic Devices

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers were part of a team that built a new system to simplify the process of designing fluidic devices.


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The Highest-Paying College Majors in 2022, Ranked

The Highest-Paying College Majors in 2022, Ranked

PayScale's annual ranking of the highest-paying college majors ranks electrical engineering and computer science at No. 1.


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This 1980s Programming Language Sparked a Revolution. Now You Can Check Out the Source Code

This 1980s Programming Language Sparked a Revolution. Now You Can Check Out the Source Code

Adobe gave permission to the Computer History Museum to release the source code for an early version of its PostScript programming language, first released in 1984.


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Twitter Disbands Trust and Safety Council

Twitter Disbands Trust and Safety Council

The action comes the same day Twitter moved to boost its revenue not linked to digital advertising by reintroducing a paid-for subscription service that would show fewer ads.


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Brain Implants Have Begun to Restore Functions, but Advances Are Slow

Brain Implants Have Begun to Restore Functions, but Advances Are Slow

But achieving full-body restoration of movement, as Elon Musk envisions with such devices, is considered far into the future, if at all.


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Japanese Company's Lunar Lander Launches to the Moon

Japanese Company's Lunar Lander Launches to the Moon

The company, Ispace, is carrying a rover from the United Arab Emirates, a Japanese robot, and other cargo in its bid to possibly be the first commercial lander to reach the moon.


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These Algorithms Are Hunting for an EV Battery Mother Lode

These Algorithms Are Hunting for an EV Battery Mother Lode

AI trained on reams of geological data can indicate where to dig in search of metals crucial to electric cars and other green technology.


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AMD Bets Its Future On Moore's Law

AMD Bets Its Future On Moore's Law

The company says Moore's Law still has a good 6-8 years of life, thanks to next-generation transistor technologies.


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The New Chatbots Could Change the World. Can You Trust Them?

The New Chatbots Could Change the World. Can You Trust Them?

Siri, Google Search, online marketing and your child's homework will never be the same. Then there's the misinformation problem.


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DeepMind's AlphaCode Can Outcompete Human Coders

DeepMind's AlphaCode Can Outcompete Human Coders

DeepMind's AlphaCode model performed well against human coders in a programming competition.


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Facial Recognition Technology Scans Your Ear

Facial Recognition Technology Scans Your Ear

University of Georgia (UGA) scientists have created an ear recognition system that can authenticate individuals with up to 97.25% accuracy.


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Smallest Robotic Arm Is Controlled by AI

Smallest Robotic Arm Is Controlled by AI

Researchers manipulated silver atoms into a lattice configuration via deep reinforcement learning, a critical advance for nanodevice construction.


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Attackers Keep Targeting the U.S. Electric Grid

Attackers Keep Targeting the U.S. Electric Grid

Plus: Chinese hackers stealing U.S. Covid relief funds, a cyberattack on the Met Opera website, and more.


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Pentagon Picked Four Tech Companies to Form $9B Cloud Computing Network

Pentagon Picked Four Tech Companies to Form $9B Cloud Computing Network

Microsoft agrees multi-cloud strategy is "the right one" for U.S. Defense Department.


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Cosmic Rays Are Quantum Computers' Kryptonite

Cosmic Rays Are Quantum Computers' Kryptonite

University of Chicago researchers reduced the rate of catastrophic quantum computing errors attributable to cosmic rays from about once every 10 seconds to once every 51 days.


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LiDAR Technique Could Help Robotic Vehicles Land Safely on Mars

LiDAR Technique Could Help Robotic Vehicles Land Safely on Mars

Researchers at the NASA Langley Research Center have developed a LiDAR technique to improve the safety of robotic vehicle landings during future Mars or lunar missions.


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Researchers Develop Scaled-up Spintronic Probabilistic Computer

Researchers Develop Scaled-up Spintronic Probabilistic Computer

Scientists have engineered a scaled-up probabilistic computer (p-computer) with stochastic spintronic devices.


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The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT

The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT

A new chatbot from OpenAI is inspiring awe, fear, stunts and attempts to circumvent its guardrails.


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How the Global Spyware Industry Spiraled Out of Control

How the Global Spyware Industry Spiraled Out of Control

The market for commercial spyware — which allows governments to invade mobile phones and vacuum up data — is booming. Even the U.S. government is using it.


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Brain-Computer Interfaces Could Change The World—But At What Cost?

Brain-Computer Interfaces Could Change The World—But At What Cost?

The ethics of neurotechnology lags behind the science.


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San Francisco Has Reversed Its Killer Robot Plan

San Francisco Has Reversed Its Killer Robot Plan

The city rolled back a controversial decision to let robots use lethal force without human intervention. But the fight is far from over.


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Artificial Intelligence is Permeating Business At Last

Artificial Intelligence is Permeating Business At Last

The age of "boring AI" will be anything but.


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FTC Sues to Block Microsoft's Acquisition of Game Giant Activision

FTC Sues to Block Microsoft's Acquisition of Game Giant Activision

The lawsuit marks FTC chair Lina Khan's most significant effort to date to address tech industry consolidation, and it could upend Microsoft's gaming ambitions.