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A new machine learning strategy that could enhance computer vision

Researchers from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Carnegie Mellon University and International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India, have developed a technique that could allow deep learning algorithms ...

Computer Sciences

Jul 16, 2018
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Predicting when online conversations turn toxic

The internet offers the potential for constructive dialogue and cooperation, but online conversations too often degenerate into personal attacks. In hopes that those attacks can be averted, Cornell researchers have created ...

Computer Sciences

Jul 13, 2018
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Is your smartphone spying on you?

Some popular apps on your phone may be secretly taking screenshots of your activity and sending them to third parties, according to a new study by a team of Northeastern researchers.

Security

Jul 06, 2018
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Britannica Insights will help searchers cut through noise for good answers

The next time your niece asks you where 18 things come from, you may not need to worry over the quality of your answer that was snatched from a quick keyboard tap. Not if you download an extension. A regarded information ...

Software

Jun 11, 2018
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Algorithm provides networks with the most current information available while avoiding data congestion

For wireless networks that share time-sensitive information on the fly, it's not enough to transmit data quickly. That data also need to be fresh. Consider the many sensors in your car. While it may take less than a second ...

Engineering

Jun 05, 2018
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Researchers hide information in plain text

Computer scientists at Columbia Engineering have invented FontCode, a new way to embed hidden information in ordinary text by imperceptibly changing, or perturbing, the shapes of fonts in text. FontCode creates font perturbations, ...

Computer Sciences

May 10, 2018
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Soft terms like 'open' and 'sharing' don't tell the true story of your data

The Turnbull government today announced the creation of a new National Data Commissioner to oversee the implementation of greater data access and "sharing" in Australia.

Internet Security

May 01, 2018
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Voice assistants will have to build trust before we're comfortable with them tracking us

We're all used to targeted advertisements on the internet. But the introduction of voice assistants like Apple's Siri and Google Assistant mean that companies are capturing all new kinds of data on us, and could build much ...

Internet

Mar 12, 2018
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On Twitter, fake news travels faster than true stories: study

A new study by three MIT scholars has found that false news spreads more rapidly on the social network Twitter than real news does - and by a substantial margin.

Internet

Mar 08, 2018
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Smartphone data tracking is more than creepy – here's why you should be worried

Smartphones rule our lives. Having information at our fingertips is the height of convenience. They tell us all sorts of things, but the information we see and receive on our smartphones is just a fraction of the data they ...

Internet

Feb 07, 2018
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Love actually: Computer model may decode Facebook emoticons

While the trusty "like" button is still the most popular way to signal approval for Facebook posts, a computer model may help users and businesses navigate the increasingly complicated way people are expressing how they feel ...

Internet

Feb 06, 2018
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Researchers: Login managers abused by third-party scripts for tracking purposes

Ad targeters who are keenly after you and your browsing habits have a way of pulling data from your browser's password manager.

Security

Jan 03, 2018
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Computer systems predict objects' responses to physical forces

Josh Tenenbaum, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, directs research on the development of intelligence at the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, a multi-university, multidisciplinary project based at ...

Computer Sciences

Dec 14, 2017
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Augmented reality: Digital teapot fits in with real objects

(Tech Xplore)—University of Arizona's College of Optical Sciences has an ambitious lineup of research areas.

Computer Sciences

Dec 12, 2017
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Try this! Researchers devise better recommendation algorithm

The recommendation systems at websites such as Amazon and Netflix use a technique called "collaborative filtering." To determine what products a given customer might like, they look for other customers who have assigned similar ...

Computer Sciences

Dec 06, 2017
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