Cybersecurity and Privacy - University of Maryland - College Park, MD
College Park, MD, United States
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Smartphone Sensor Data Might Detect Cannabis Intoxication
Smartphone sensor data might be able to determine if a person is intoxicated after consuming marijuana, according to a new study…
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Facebook's Ad Algorithms Exclude Women From Seeing Certain Jobs
Facebook's ad-delivery system is excluding women from seeing certain job opportunities without regard to their qualifications. That would be illegal under U.S....
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Auditors Are Testing Hiring Algorithms for Bias
As more companies use AI-based hiring tools to manage the flood of job applicants, concerns that the tools may be biased has led to the proposal of an unproven...
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College Kid's Fake, AI-Generated Blog Fooled Tens of Thousands
Liam Porr, a computer science student at the University of California, Berkeley, used the GPT-3 language-generating tool created by OpenAI to produce an entirely...
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Machine Learning Reveals How Much of a Shakespeare Play Was Written by Someone Else
Literary analysts have long noticed the hand of another author in Shakespeare's Henry VIII. Now a neural network has identified the specific scenes in question—and...
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Welcome to Robot University (Only Robots Need Apply)
Roboticists are creating a data set of annotated video clips called RoboNet that could be used to train a robot's neural network to perform new tasks.
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You Can Now Practice Firing Someone in VR
Virtual reality workplace training provider Talespin has developed virtual characters to train people in soft management skills such as firing employees. ...
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China Has Started a Grand Experiment In AI Education
China's investment in AI-enabled teaching and learning has exploded, marking the world's biggest experiment on AI in education.
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Machine Learning System Automatically Translates Long-Lost Languages
Some ancient languages that have never been deciphered could be in line for machine translation.
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Training A Single AI Model Can Emit As Much Carbon As Five Cars in Their Lifetimes
Deep learning has a terrible carbon footprint, according to researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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The Real Reason America Is Scared of Huawei: Internet-Connected Everything
There was a time when the world's two great superpowers were obsessed with nuclear weapons technology.
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The Man Turning China Into a Quantum Superpower
On September 29, 2017, a Chinese satellite known as Micius made possible an unhackable videoconference between Vienna and Beijing, two cities half a world apart...
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China's Tech Giants Want to Go Global. Just One Thing Might Stand in Their Way.
In the early 1980s, a cluster of fledging computer companies opened up shop in a chaotic corner of northwest Beijing, near the campuses of Peking and Tsinghua Universities...
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Science vs. the State: A Family Saga at the Caltech of China
Three generations of personal and political history show the tensions between the Communist Party's need for knowledge and its need for ideological control.
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Nine Charts That Really Bring Home Just How Fast AI Is Growing
With so much hype surrounding artificial intelligence today, it can be difficult to know where things actually stand. Fortunately, a report (.pdf) issued by a group...
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CRISPR Inventor Feng Zhang Calls for Moratorium on Gene-Edited Babies
Feng Zhang, one of the inventors of the gene-editing technique CRISPR, has called for a global moratorium on using the technology to create gene-edited babies. ...
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A Robot Scientist Will Dream p New Materials to Advance Computing and Fight Pollution
In a laboratory that overlooks a busy shopping street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a robot is attempting to create new materials.
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Cyber-Skills Shortage Means Students Are Being Recruited to Fight Off Hackers
Students with little or no cybersecurity knowledge are being paired with easy-to-use AI software that lets them protect the Texas A&M campus from attack.
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China's Leaders Are Softening Their Stance on AI
China might be at loggerheads with the United States over trade, but it is calling for a friendlier approach to the development of artificial intelligence.
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S Takes First Step Toward a Quantum Computing Workforce
Quantum computers promise to transform computer security, finance, and many other fields by solving certain problems far faster than conventional machines.
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Life As a Bug Bounty Hunter: A Struggle Every Day, Just to Get Paid
Evan Ricafort works from home, his office taking up a room in a house that he shares with his family along a national highway in the Philippines.
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