Sweat holds most promise for noninvasive testing
Making a revolutionary biosensor takes blood, sweat and tears.
Mar 15, 2019
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What to do if your identity was stolen in mass identity breach
News recently that a malware attack at Detroit-based Wolverine Solutions Group, which handles mailing and other services for hundreds of health care companies, potentially exposed the personal information of hundreds of thousands ...
Mar 14, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Generating cross-modal sensory data for robotic visual-tactile perception
Perceiving an object only visually (e.g. on a screen) or only by touching it, can sometimes limit what we are able to infer about it. Human beings, however, have the innate ability to integrate visual and tactile stimuli, ...
Mar 05, 2019 feature
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Exposing flaws in metrics for user login systems
How good is the research on the success or failure of the system that verifies your identity when you log into a computer, smartphone or other device?
Feb 26, 2019
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Altered data sets can still provide statistical integrity and preserve privacy
Synthetic networks may increase the availability of some data while still protecting individual or institutional privacy, according to a Penn State statistician.
Feb 17, 2019
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Robotics
Robots may run future farms, researchers say
Agriculture, one of the world's oldest vocations, is also one that continues to reinvent itself with new technology. From the introduction of the steel plow to automated tractors to modern fertilizer applications, technology ...
Feb 14, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Peering under the hood of fake-news detectors
New work from MIT researchers peers under the hood of an automated fake-news detection system, revealing how machine-learning models catch subtle but consistent differences in the language of factual and false stories. The ...
Feb 04, 2019
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Security
Defending against cyberattacks by giving attackers 'false hope'
With almost every online purchase, a person's personal information—name, date of birth and credit card number—is stored electronically often in the "cloud," which is a network of internet servers. Now, as more people ...
Jan 28, 2019
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Machine Learning & AI
Neural network assimilates multiple types of health data to help doctors make decisions with incomplete information
MIT researchers have developed a model that can assimilate multiple types of a patient's health data to help doctors make decisions with incomplete information.
Jan 28, 2019
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Security
Study: On Facebook and Twitter your privacy is at risk—even if you don't have an account
A new study shows that privacy on social media is like second-hand smoke. It's controlled by the people around you.
Jan 21, 2019
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Engineers develop powerful tool to help semiconductor manufacturers spot defects
Faulty mobile phones and solar cells could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a ground-breaking invention developed at the Australian National University (ANU).
Jan 16, 2019
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Internet
You may enjoy a personal data control opportunity if Project Bali blooms
Winter souls among the world's computer users have regrets, with I-give-up resignation over the lack of ownership of one's personal data. Now news of a Microsoft project is raising interest and doing the rounds of tech-watching ...
Jan 07, 2019 weblog
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Patent talk: Relax, nobody would be disturbed by your voice commands in public space
Silent voice commands? Microsoft is on it, thank you very much. They have filed a patent "Silent Voice Input." Microsoft is, in this patent, looking at a module that can detect a user's voice commands that cannot be detected ...
Jan 05, 2019 weblog
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Business
How celebrity non-experts and amateur opinion could change the way we acquire knowledge
When digital media entrepreneur Andrew Keen predicted in 2007 that the user-generated focus of Web 2.0 would lead to a reduction of well researched and factual information – and in turn the rise of amateur opinion – he ...
Jan 02, 2019
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Marriott data breach: 500 million times concerned
On November 30, 2018, Marriott International announced an enormous data breach concerning 500 million clients, the second biggest ever. With new data breaches being announced almost daily, you have to ask yourself, how is ...
Jan 02, 2019
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Information
Information as a concept has a diversity of meanings, from everyday usage to technical settings. Generally speaking, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control, data, form, instruction, knowledge, meaning, mental stimulus, pattern, perception, and representation.
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