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A virtual interviewer powered by natural language processing offers socially distanced support for people facing trying times. The dialog system, designed by a collaborative team from the University of Michigan and the University ...
Jun 19, 2020
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The widespread protests against police brutality have created a buzz around a software shortcut letting people cue iPhones to start video recording during a traffic stop in case of misconduct by officers.
Jun 18, 2020
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Britain scrapped plans to launch its own coronavirus contact tracing smartphone app because of technical problems and will now work on building one using technology supplied by Apple and Google, health authorities said Thursday.
Jun 18, 2020
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In 2016, the mobile game Pokémon Go sent hundreds of millions of players wandering the streets in search of virtual monsters. In the process it helped popularize augmented reality (AR) technology, which overlays computer-generated ...
Jun 17, 2020
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Amnesty International warned Tuesday that contact-tracing technology developed to contain the novel coronavirus threatens users' privacy, highlighting Bahraini, Kuwaiti and Norwegian apps as "among the most dangerous".
Jun 16, 2020
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Germany launched a the continent's strict data privacy standards.
Jun 16, 2020
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A framework that uses graph theory, which considers how networks are coded, could help make digital communication networks more efficient.
Jun 15, 2020
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What better way to escape the real-world horrors of a global pandemic, then to play a video game based on a more terrifying and stressful outbreak?
Jun 15, 2020
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Norway's health authorities said on Monday they had suspended an app designed to help trace the spread of the new coronavirus after the national data protection agency said it was too invasive of privacy.
Jun 15, 2020
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Google has released a test version of its annual upgrade to its Android software without the usual fanfare heralding the latest operating system powering most smartphones.
Jun 11, 2020
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