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EU Integrating Quantum Accelerators into HPC Datacenters
The European Union is working hard to keep pace with quantum computing efforts worldwide.
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Australia's AI Cameras Catch Over 270,000 Drivers Using Phones
Artificial intelligence-equipped cameras have spotted more than 270,000 drivers using phones while driving in New South Wales, Australia, since March 2020.
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Protection from DDoS Attacks – And Why It Is Useless
In this piece, we'll use a plain example to illustrate the existing types of DDoS attacks, and how businesses try to fend them off.
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DeepMind AI Helps Study Strange Electrons in Chemical Reactions
Strange fractional electrons are crucial to many chemical reactions, but traditional methods cannot model them, a problem DeepMind used machine learning to fix....
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America Needs AI Literacy Now
Seventy percent of study participants believe AI is a single program that can perform a broad range of tasks, like autocompleting sentences.
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Building Human-Robot Relationships Through Music and Dance
A performance called FOREST is exploring trust through creative collaboration.
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Renewable Energy Is Great—but the Grid Can Slow It Down
Many solar and wind projects face a problem: getting the energy from where it's made to where it's needed.
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FBI Document Shows How Popular Secure Messaging Apps Stack Up
An FBI document details the agency's ability to legally access content from secure messaging applications.
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Algorithm Shows Under the Right Conditions, Mosquitoes Flourish in Winter
A machine learning-based algorithm can precisely forecast microclimatic temperature within breeding grounds of Aedes albopictus mosquitoes.
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Thousands of AT&T Customers in the U.S. Infected by Data-Stealing Malware
Researchers at China's Qihoo 360 reported that the EWDoor malware has infected the networking devices of thousands of AT&T Internet customers in the U.S.
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Taking Some Guesswork Out of Drug Discovery
The deep learning GeoMol model can rapidly predict the three-dimensional shapes of drug-like molecules, which could expedite drug discovery.
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Amazon Fined $1.3 Billion in Italian Antitrust Case
Fine comes amid a similar investigation being carried out by EU authorities.
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Over 200 Newspapers Quietly Sue Big Tech
To date, the group has been retained by over 30 newspaper ownership groups on behalf of over 200 publications to file lawsuits.
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U.S., U.K. to Partner on Prize Challenges to Advance Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
The two nations anticipate launching the prize challenges in the spring of 2022, with initial results ready to be shared at the second Summit for Democracy.
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Researchers Develop Algorithm to Increase Efficiency of Quantum Computers
A collaboration between researchers has yielded a scheme to boost quantum computers' speed and efficiency.
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Mobile Weed Killer for Tree Nurseries
Researchers have developed a mobile robot system that tree nurseries could deploy to remove weeds without the use of herbicides.
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AWS Outage Ripples Through U.S.
An outage of Amazon Web Services Tuesday angered millions of U.S. users
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How Australian Police will Use DNA Sequencing to Predict What Suspects Look Like
The technology, seen as a "gamechanger" for forensic science, raises privacy and racial profiling issues.
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Complaint to FTC Claims Amazon Search Results Full of Ads 'Unlawfully Deceiving' Consumers
More than a quarter of Amazon search results are paid ads, according to the complaint filed by a coalition of labor unions.
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Tech Companies Join the Fight to Take Down Hacking Groups
Google and Microsoft are taking on hackers.
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