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Plans Launched to Boost Digital Skills for Adults
The U.K. government will offer free courses to thousands of adults to improve their digital skills.
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Exhibition Explores Human Connection in a Virtual World
The University of Alberta has launched a multimedia art exhibit called "Dyscorpia: Future Intersections of the Body and Technology."
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Geomagnetic Jerks Finally Reproduced, Explained
Researchers have created a computer model that explains anomalies in the Earth's magnetic field.
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Francine Berman Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Francine Berman of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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In African Villages, These Phones Become Ultrasound Scanners
Doctors are using a hand-held ultrasound scanner to provide medical imaging to residents of remote African villages.
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Mapping the World in 3D Will Let Us Paint Streets With Augmented Reality
The U.K. startup Scape provides a visual positioning service that uses global positioning systems and multiple camera images to localize users.
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The Robots That Manage the Managers
New artificial intelligence-driven coaching apps and platforms aim to provide basic training in traditional supervisory skills such as delivering feedback and delegating...
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Training Data for Autonomous Driving
Understand.ai is a startup launched in Germany to improve and accelerate the labeling of image elements for autonomous driving algorithms.
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IARPA Is Investing in AI That Constantly Analyzes Worldwide Satellite Images
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity has released a draft solicitation for an analytics tool that can combine satellite images and detect human...
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Software Tool Could Provide Answers to Some of Life's Most Intriguing Questions
A new software tool combines machine learning with digital signal processing to make it possible to definitively answer challenging questions.
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An Emerging Threat, Hiding in Plain Sight
Steganography hides information, sometimes right before your eyes.
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High-Tech Collision Warnings, No Matter How Smart Your Car Is
Research suggests older vehicles can be equipped with high-tech systems to make them safer.
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VA Looks to 3D-Printing to Improve Veteran Care
A medical team at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is pioneering new ways to use three-dimensional printing.
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Army Researchers Identify New Way to Improve Cybersecurity
Scientists may have identified a new technique for strengthening network cybersecurity.
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Home Robot Control for People With Disabilities
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed an augmented reality interface to help disabled individuals control complex assistive robots.
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Transparent Architecture
Researchers have devised software that enables simulations and fine-grained analyses of real estate that can be made accessible to developers, architects, and real...
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Cracking the Crypto War
Ray Ozzie thinks he has an approach for accessing encrypted devices that attains the impossible: it satisfies both law enforcement and privacy purists.
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How WhatsApp, FaceTime and Other Encryption Apps Shaped the Outcome of the Mueller Report
Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III detailed multiple contacts among Russian operatives and associates of President Trump in the report made public Thursday....
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New Algorithm Could Save Thousands of Animals From Toxic Testing
Rutgers University researchers designed an algorithm to test for chemical toxicity to benefit workers, and potentially sparing thousands of animals from being experimental...
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Firefighters Had Secret Weapon When Notre Dame Caught Fire: A Robot Named 'Colossus'
Paris firefighters used a 1,100-pound, tank-like robot to mitigate damage to Notre Dame cathedral and prevent the conflagration from spreading further by entering...12