Credit: CC0 Public Domain An Alabama hospital system that quit accepting new patients after a ransomware attack said Saturday it had gotten a key to... Read More
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This Oct. 4, 2019 photo shows a copy of an FBI pamphlet and related emails. The FBI’s outreach to American colleges and universities about the... Read More
The iTunes application is displayed on a computer on Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, in New York. Apple’s latest operating software for Mac computers kills off... Read More
High-impedance superconducting switch. Credit: McCaughan et al. Many existing techniques for developing quantum and neuromorphic computing tools are based on the use of superconductors, substances... Read More
Speech recognition using artificial neural networks and artificial bee colony optimization
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Block diagram of proposed model. Credit: Shukla & Jain. Over the past decade or so, advances in machine learning have paved the way for the... Read More
Vice Media is expanding its footprint with the acquisition of digital media rival Refinery29, which targets female readers Vice Media said Wednesday it was acquiring... Read More
Southwest pilots sue Boeing over 737 MAX
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Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 MAX aircraft parked on the tarmac after being grounded Pilots from Texas-based Southwest Airlines said Monday they had filed a lawsuit... Read More
Predicting terror activity before it happens
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Data scientists have developed an early-warning model that can successfully predict how lethal a terror organization will become in the future... Read More
Ultra-low emissions control equipment in China Credit: Ling Tang, Beijing University of Chemical Technology and Beihang University; Jiabao Qu, Ministry of Environmental Protection and HeBei... Read More
Guaranteeing that computer chips, that can consist of billions of interconnected transistors, are manufactured without defects is a challenge. But how to determine if a... Read More
Credit: University of Toronto Engineering researchers from the University of Toronto have created a miniature robot that can crawl with inchworm-like motion. The underlying technology... Read More
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University A line is the shortest distance between two points, but “A-line,” a 4-D printing system developed at Carnegie Mellon University, takes... Read More
The Coconut tool nudges developers to think more about user privacy. Credit: Carnegie Mellon University CyLab When you open a newly-installed app on your phone... Read More
University of Washington researchers found that Pronto bikes weren’t always in areas that people wanted to go. This map of Seattle neighborhoods shows the number... Read More
Credit: CC0 Public Domain If you’ve ever wondered how your $100 cable bill grows to new heights, Consumer Reports has the answer. Add-on fees, usually... Read More
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The U.S. Justice Department doesn’t want Facebook to encrypt messages on WhatsApp and its other messaging services, without giving law enforcement... Read More
Credit: CC0 Public Domain So-called “deepfake” videos are proliferating online, with most of them pornographic but with some politically motivated ones as well, security researchers... Read More