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Fighting Impersonation by AI
Finding ways to determine whether a voice message is real or generated by an artificial intelligence.
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The Secret History of X-Ray Specs
"I have seen my death!" Anna Bertha Röntgen is said to have exclaimed upon seeing the first X-ray photograph ever made–an image of the bones in her hand. It was...
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The Things People Googled After Britain Voted to Leave the Eu
Google has said there was a dramatic spike in searches for Irish passport applications as news of the UK''s decision to leave the EU broke.
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How Will Virtual Reality Change Our Lives?
And it's not just gamers who are benefiting from the immersive possibilities it offers.
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A Few Controversial Numbers May Be Illegal to Share
Jon Johansen's program worked. The Norwegian teenager watched as it downloaded 200 megabytes of a recently released movie, The Matrix, from a DVD onto his computer...
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How a Woman Trapped in Her Body 'spoke' Once Again
Around six years have now passed since Waltraut Faehnrich last opened and closed her eyes without assistance.
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The Detectives Watching You from Space
Fans of crime writer Raymond Chandler's wise-cracking prose would no doubt be pleased that there's a real-life private detective agency run by two men called Raymond...
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Supercomputer Simulates Whole-Body Blood Flow
A new supercomputer simulation of the circulation of blood throughout the entire human body correlates very closely with real-world flow measurements.
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Can Technology Help S Improve pon Reality?
Imagine walking on Mars and being able to examine rock formations from all angles, or collaborating on the same 3D hologram design with someone thousands of miles...
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Ted 2016: Hololens nveils 'teleportation' to Mars
HoloLens creator Alex Kipman has shown off Microsoft's augmented reality technology at the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference.
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How the British and Americans Started Listening In
It was late on 8 February 1941 when four Americans arrived at Bletchley Park.
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The Tech Giving People Power to Deal with Disability
In Europe and America, this is one in five people. And since they are less likely to be in work, their poverty rate is about twice as high.
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Facewatch 'thief Recognition' Cctv on Trial in k Stores
Until now, Facewatch has provided local groups of businesses with a way to share their CCTV images of shoplifters and other potential offenders.
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The Computer That Knows What You're Thinking
We have all done it; put a rictus grin on our faces while inside we are burning with anger.
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Why Robot That Gets 'tired and Hormonal' Is a Good Thing
Having certain robots operate using the electronic equivalent of an endocrine system could present advantages, according to researchers.
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Cardiff University Develops Virtual Assistant Dubbed Sherlock
A virtual assistant developed at Cardiff University recently had its first public trial at the BBC's Make It Digital event.
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Study Suggests London nderground May Be 'too Fast'
A computer model of the London Underground predicts trains that travel too fast compound congestion when key locations outside the city center become bottlenecks...
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The Search For a Thinking Machine
Thanks, in part, to a new era of machine learning, computer are already starting to assimilate information from raw data in the same way as the human infant learns...
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The People Hoping to Continue to Exist Through Technology
"We have this strange idea that dying is something we need to do."
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Web's Random Numbers Are Too Weak, Researchers Warn
A study found shortcomings in the generation of the random numbers used to scramble or encrypt data.
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