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New York City Takes Aim at AI
The Big Apple fields an action plan for artificial intelligence.
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A Health Monitoring Wearable That Operates Without a Battery
University of California, Irvine researchers have developed a self-powered, wireless wearable device that can monitor a user's pulse.
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Smartphone, MD: Going Viral
A smartphone application and laboratory kit can diagnose COVID-19, COVID variants, and flu virus infections.
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What's in the Water?
Researchers have mapped the global pathways of nitrogen and pathogens from human wastewater.
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Botnet Buster Finds IoT Command and Control Centers
University of California, Riverside computer scientists have developed a tool that cripples botnets by fooling them into exposing their Internet of Things command...
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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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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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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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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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