Computer Sciences
Listeners of high-energy music such as hard rock and hip-hop may be given less accurate music recommendations by music recommender systems than listeners of other non-mainstream music, according to research published in the ...
Mar 29, 2021
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Security
The hack of a company that manages ticket-processing and frequent-flier data for major global airlines—including Star Alliance and OneWorld members—has compromised the personal data of an unspecified number of travelers.
Mar 6, 2021
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Business
The U.S. airline industry is pledging to expand the practice of asking passengers on flights to the United States for information that public health officials could use for contact tracing during the pandemic.
Feb 20, 2021
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Engineering
Emerging robotics technology may soon help construction companies and contractors create buildings in less time at higher quality and at lower costs.
Feb 10, 2021
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Computer Sciences
When it comes to chess, computers seem to have nothing left to prove.
Jan 26, 2021
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Computer Sciences
A team of researchers at Colorado State University has designed an AI system to train a dog to obey certain oral commands without human assistance. In their paper uploaded to the arXiv preprint server, the researchers describe ...
Computer Sciences
From a pair of simple principles of evolution—chance mutation and natural selection—nature has constructed an almost unfathomable richness of life around us. Despite our scientific sophistication, human design and engineering ...
Jan 19, 2021
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Security
Florida officials acknowledged Friday that state servers appear to have been compromised by overseas hackers who gained entry by imbedding malicious code into networking software from a Texas-based software company, SolarWinds.
Dec 19, 2020
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Robotics
Jeffrey C. Trinkle has always had a keen interest in robot hands. And, though it may be a long way off, Trinkle, who has studied robotics for more than thirty years, says he's most compelled by the prospect of robots performing ...
Dec 14, 2020
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Engineering
A new study has found one of the challenges in designing systems that involve people interacting with technology is to tackle the human trait of overconfidence.
Dec 9, 2020
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