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How to Encode a Secret Message in a Fingerprint
Researchers have developed a method for constructing digital fingerprints that encode secret messages into the spiral points on the prints.
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Even a Few Bots Can Shift Public Opinion in Big Ways
Nearly two-thirds of the social media bots with political activity on Twitter before the 2016 U.S. presidential election supported Donald Trump.
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Intel CPUs Fall to New Hyperthreading Exploit That Pilfers Crypto Keys
Side-channel leak in Skylake and Kaby Lake chips probably affects AMD CPUs, too.
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English Has the Scientific Edge, for Now
For centuries, science was a multilingual affair, powered by French, German, English and other tongues. But since the early 1970s, English has become the undisputed...
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Wormholes Could be Portals to Other Universes
Wormholes are theoretical objects that could serve as portals between two points in space and time. Some believe they could even act as passageways to other universes...
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UC Berkeley's Fastest-Growing Class Is Data Science 101
The University of California, Berkeley's introduction to data science course is the fastest-growing class on campus.
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An AI Lie Detector Will Interrogate Travelers at Some EU Borders
An artificial intelligence-based lie detector system will be used on international travelers during a six-month pilot program at border crossings in Hungary, Latvia...
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Travel Industry Brings Innovative Technology Along for the Ride
Travel and tourism firms are deploying next-generation technologies such as robots, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and augmented reality to improve the...
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University of Tokyo Team Performs Most Complex Earthquake Simulation to Date
Researchers have created a record-setting earthquake wave simulation.
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NASA Astronauts Will Get to Use This Extraterrestrial Supercomputer
A standard Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Apollo 4000-series business computer is being used to conduct science experiments on the International Space Station.
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Tech Giants May Have to be Broken Up, says Tim Berners-Lee
The World Wide Web inventor says Silicon Valley firms have too much clout and 'optimism has cracked'.
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Here's How Much Bots Drive Conversation During News Events
Last week, as thousands of Central American migrants made their way northward through Mexico, walking a treacherous route toward the US border, talk of "the caravan...
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NASA's Dawn Mission to Asteroid Belt Comes to End
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has gone silent, ending a historic mission that studied time capsules from the solar system's earliest chapter.
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Search Engine for CCTV Lets You Find People From Their Description
A new system uses machine learning to automatically match individuals in videos with their descriptions.
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Researchers Combine Technologies for New Digital Stethoscope
A prototype digital stethoscope for grading heart ailments and heart-pump performance incorporates precision sensors, electrocardiogram technology, and machine...
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Christie’s First to Sell Art Made by AI
A painted portrait produced by a machine learning algorithm was auctioned for $432,000 by Christie's auction house in New York.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Learning to Keep Learning
What if you stopped learning after graduation? It sounds stultifying, but that is how most machine-learning systems are trained.
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The World's Strongest MRI Machines Are Pushing Human Imaging to New Limits
On a cold morning in Minneapolis last December, a man walked into a research centre to venture where only pigs had gone before: into the strongest magnetic resonance...
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This Robot Transforms Itself to Navigate an Obstacle Course
When you've got a hammer, everything looks like a nail, but the world starts to look more interesting if your hammer can change shape.
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