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posted on November 18, 2020 by Carolyn Gramling

New dinosaur fossil dates to same time as a volcanic surge, suggesting ensuing changes in plant life allowed these long-necked giants to emerge.

 
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posted on November 18, 2020 by Garrett M. Graff

The president dismissed the widely respected cybersecurity agency director Tuesday night for pushing back against election disinformation.

 
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08:59
posted on November 18, 2020

A team of researchers demonstrated that popular robotic household vacuum cleaners can be remotely hacked to act as microphones.

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posted on November 18, 2020

Researchers have developed artificial intelligence technology that brings together imaging, processing, machine learning and memory in one electronic chip, powered by light.

posted on November 18, 2020

The government of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday presented a draft law that would impose major fines on companies that violate privacy law by misusing the personal data of their customers.

posted on November 18, 2020

As the number of online devices surges and superfast 5G connections roll out, record numbers of companies are offering handsome rewards to ethical hackers who successfully attack their cybersecurity systems.

 
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11:08
posted on November 18, 2020 by Maria Temming

Lab experiments developing and testing fake Martian dirt are proving just how difficult it would be to farm on the Red Planet.

 
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14:01
posted on November 18, 2020 by Bruce Bower

A new book covers the big personalities, field exploits and scientific clashes behind the discovery of the hominid skeleton nicknamed Ardi.

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posted on November 18, 2020 by Brian Barrett

The tracker-blocking company will soon launch a privacy-friendly desktop browser as well.

posted on November 18, 2020 by Matt Burgess, WIRED UK

A deepfake bot has been generating explicit, non-consensual images on the platform. The researchers who found it say their warnings have been ignored.

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posted on November 18, 2020

Telling humans apart and following them as they move in their surrounding environment could be two highly valuable skills for service robots. In fact, when combined, these two capabilities would allow robots to follow specific people as they are interacting with them or offering their assistance.

 
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posted on November 18, 2020 by Tina Hesman Saey

With final results – including showing its vaccine is 94 percent effective in the elderly – Pfizer is poised to request emergency use authorization.

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posted on November 18, 2020

Microsoft unveiled a new chip design Tuesday that it says will usher in a new era of security on Windows PCs.

posted on November 18, 2020

Former Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer began her comeback to the tech scene Wednesday with the launch of a new mobile app aimed at helping people organize their contacts.

 
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posted on November 18, 2020

In the past year, lockdowns and other COVID-19 safety measures have made online shopping more popular than ever, but the skyrocketing demand is leaving many retailers struggling to fulfill orders while ensuring the safety of their warehouse employees.

 
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21:29
posted on November 18, 2020

Natural language processing (NLP) has taken great strides recently—but how much does AI understand of what it reads? Less than we thought, according to researchers at USC's Department of Computer Science. In a recent paper Assistant Professor Xiang Ren and Ph.D. student Yuchen Lin found that despite advances, AI still doesn't have the common sense needed to generate plausible sentences.

posted on November 18, 2020

Machine learning can be used to fill a significant gap in Canadian public health data related to ethnicity and Aboriginal status, according to research published today in PLOS ONE by a University of Alberta research epidemiologist.


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