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Securing the Enterprise When Employees are Remote
Managing the security challenges of hybrid work environments.
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Lip-Reading Software Helps Users of All Abilities to Send Secure Messages
New lip-reading software can learn from its users continuously.
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Computing Clean Water
Researchers have computationally modeled affinity between solutes and membrane surfaces, to characterize their effects on water purification.
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Computer Love
A computer simulation developed by Dan Conroy-Beam at the University of California, Santa Barbara offers a framework for evaluating theories of human mate choice...
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San Diego Supercomputer Center Helps Advance Computational Chemistry
Researchers from MIT developed an artificial intelligence approach to detect electron correlation, which could help further computational chemistry.
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This Robot Doesn't Need Any Electronics
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have created a four-legged soft robot that doesn't need any electronics to work. The robot only needs a constant...
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Computer Model Predicts How Drugs Affect Heart Rhythm
A new computer model can screen drugs for unintended cardiac side effects, such as arrhythmia.
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Record Set for Cryptographic Challenge
A team of computer scientists in France and the U.S. has set a record for integer factorization, a major challenge in the security of most public key cryptography...
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UCI, Disney Research Scientists Develop AI-Enhanced Video Compression Model
An AI-enhanced video compression model has shown that deep learning can provide results comparable to established video compression technology.
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Can I Mix Those Chemicals? There's an App for That!
A new open source computer program can advise users to prevent the mixture of incompatible chemicals.
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App Allows Inspectors to Find Gas Pump Skimmers Faster
A new app can detect devices installed in gas pumps to steal consumer credit and debit card data.
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This Deep Neural Network Fights Deepfakes
A new deep neural network architecture can identify manipulated images at the pixel level with high precision.
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New Attacks on Graphics Processors Endanger User Privacy
University of California, Riverside scientists have determined how hackers can exploit graphics processing units to expose private data.
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AI Helps Track Down Mysterious Cosmic Radio Bursts
Researchers used machine learning to discover 72 fast radio bursts from a mysterious source about 3 billion light years from Earth.
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Mobile Device Can Accurately and Inexpensively Monitor Air Quality Using Machine Learning
c-Air is a new, cost-effective mobile device designed to measure air quality.
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Now You Can See the Invisible
University of California, Santa Barbara researchers are using Wi-Fi signals to look through solid walls and see what is on the other side.
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Advancing Resistive Memory to Improve Portable Electronics
A new technology could lead to the next generation of memory storage devices for portable electronics such as smartphones, laptops, tablets, and digital cameras...
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Researcher Aims to Use Social Multimedia For Enhanced Mapping
University of California, Merced professor Shawn Newsam is researching the viability of using multimedia collections as volunteered geographic information for mapping...
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Using Computers and Sensors to Curb Electricity Use in Buildings
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed algorithms and a real-time occupancy sensor network to create a smart heating, ventilation...
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How Much Information?
In 2008, the world's servers processed 9.57 zettabytes of information, almost 10 to the 22nd power, or ten million million gigabytes. This was 12 gigabytes of...
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Nsf Funds Expedition Into Software For Efficient Computing of Nanoscale Devices
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded a $10 million, five-year grant to researchers who will explore software-assisted monitoring of system components...12