Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers from Erasmus University published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that explores online recommendations and their effectiveness, providing... Read More
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Businesses across almost every industry deploy artificial intelligence to make jobs simpler for staff and tasks easier for consumers. Computer software... Read More
Credit: Chandra, Dillenbourg & Paiva. Researchers at CHILI Lab (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland and GAIPS Lab (University of Lisbon) in Portugal have... Read More
Paul Rosenberg, founder of the Cryptohippie data protection company advocates a ‘parallel existence’ A hackers’ congress in Prague on Friday hailed the new cryptocurrencies as... Read More
A combined team of researchers from Ruhr-University Bochum and Munster University has found two major security vulnerabilities in PDF files. They have documented their findings... Read More
Driving into old age
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Worldwide the number of drivers over the age of 65 is increasing rapidly. As such, there is an urgency in the... Read More
Google has said ‘we don’t pay for links to be included in search results’ Google cannot escape French law obliging the US online giant to... Read More
MIT Associate Professor Juejun “JJ” Hu. Credit: Denis Paiste/Materials Research Laboratory Machine learning and artificial intelligence are increasingly being used in materials science research. For... 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
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
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: 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
This Feb 23, 2019, file photo shows the inside of a computer in Jersey City, N.J. While small and mid-sized businesses are increasingly targets for... Read More
Security in a heartbeat
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Sandia National Laboratories is testing biometric technology that uses unique electrocardiogram signals sent from a wearable device, possibly a wristband or chest strap, to identify... Read More
Military drills for robots
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An Army robot plans what to do to address a debris pile full of objects. Credit: US Army photo Army researchers tested ground robots performing... Read More