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Crime Prevention Through Crime Prediction
Students in a Louisiana State University computer science class developed a crime-prediction software program.
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Head in the Clouds
Brain-computer interfaces, like so much else, may be migrating to the cloud.
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Realistic Robots Provide Clues to Lizard Interaction
Researchers have developed an interactive robot that responds to the immediate actions of live lava lizards on the Galapagos Islands.
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Scientists Find the Skull of Humanity's Ancestor, on a Computer
Researchers reconstructed a virtual skull of the last common human ancestor using computerized-tomography scans of 260 modern-day skulls from various populations...
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States Boost Computer Science Education Efforts
A new study found that only 45% of U.S. high schools offer classes in computer science, and that girls and minorities are underrepresented in those classes.
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AIs That Deblur Faces Could Make People on CCTV Easier to Identify
A new artificial intelligence system can automatically deblur photographs of people's faces.
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Objects Can Now Change Colors Like a Chameleon
A new system uses reprogrammable ink to allow objects to change colors when exposed to ultraviolet (UV) and visible light sources.
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Computer Model Turns Text Into Animation
Scientists have developed a computer model that can directly render text describing physical movements as computer-generated animation, an initial step toward creating...
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The Next Hot Job: Pretending to Be a Robot
Many robotic systems are not fully autonomous and require, at the very least, humans monitoring them from afar.
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How a Zebrafish Model May Hold a Key to Biology
Harvard University reseaerchers used open-source software tools to build a neural network with an architecture different from that of a zebrafish brain, for comparison...
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Avast, French Police Take Over Malware Botnet, Disinfect 850,000 Computers
Antivirus maker Avast and the French National Police neutralized the back-end infrastructure of a malware botnet.
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Making AI Systems Fairer Will Require Time, Guidelines
Director Christoph Lütge on the new Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Munich.
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One in Five U.K. Schools Says Students Have Broken Into Computer Systems
A cybersecurity audit found 21% of 430 U.K. schools had their computers, networks, or servers hacked by students.
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COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All
In the beginning, there was machine languages and assembler. Neither was easy to use, but then along came COBOL, and everything changed.
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The Top Programming Languages 2019
IEEE Spectrum's 2019 roster of leading programming languages once again ranks Python in the top slot.
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Schools Pushed for Tech in Every Classroom. Now Parents Are Pushing Back.
U.S. schools have made huge technology investments in the last 10 years, but now parents and educators question whether the effect of technology on education has...
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Get Ready for More Humanlike Bots, Better Deep-Fake Videos, Wall-to-Wall Disinformation in 2020 Race
Two new studies anticipate that foreign and domestic actors will ramp up efforts to disseminate disinformation and fake news in order to manipulate voters in the...
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Why Mastercard Is Betting on Middle School Girls to Detect Cyberthreats
Mastercard's Girls4Tech program aims to inspire middle school girls worldwide to pursue careers in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, with the goal of recruiting...
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Robot Pilot That Can Grab the Controls Gets Its License
The ROBOpilot Unmanned Aircraft Conversion System passed the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Practical Test for piloting light aircraft and completed...
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