Taking a city's pulse with movable sensors
Suppose you have 10 taxis in Manhattan. What portion of the borough's streets do they cover in a typical day?
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Security
Supply-chain hack attacks are worrying investigators
What do you know about supply-chain attacks? In January, an article in CSO said it's when a weak link in your enterprise security might lie with partners and suppliers. It's when someone infiltrates your system through ...
Security
New technique uses power anomalies to ID malware in embedded systems
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Texas at Austin have developed a technique for detecting types of malware that use a system's architecture to thwart traditional security measures. The ...
Apr 25, 2019
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Machine learning & AI
Agriculture: Machine learning can reveal optimal growing conditions to maximize taste, other features
What goes into making plants taste good? For scientists in MIT's Media Lab, it takes a combination of botany, machine-learning algorithms, and some good old-fashioned chemistry.
Apr 3, 2019
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ASUS acknowledges computers infected by auto-update virus
The Taiwanese computer company ASUS is acknowledging that suspected nation-state hackers planted malware on its online automatic update service in a sophisticated and targeted espionage operation.
Mar 26, 2019
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Researchers: ASUS computers infected by auto-update virus
In a sophisticated targeted espionage operation, hackers infected tens of thousands of computers from the Taiwanese vendor ASUS with malicious software using the company's online automatic update service, security researchers ...
Mar 26, 2019
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Engineering
Secret to lab-on-a-chip breakthrough: Matte black nail polish
BYU electrical engineering students have stumbled upon a very unconventional method that could speed up lab-on-a-chip disease diagnosis.
Mar 6, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Ikea curtains break down pollutants, highlight interest in fabric purifiers
Can you use textiles to clean the air? Take sunlight. Add a film coating to fabric. And you get curtains that destroy pollutants and purify the air inside your home. The recipe is being touted by Ikea. Along with bunk beds ...
Robotics
Using a machine learning technique to make a canine-like robot more agile and faster
A team of researchers with Robotic Systems Lab in Switzerland and Intelligent Systems Lab in Germany and the U.S. has found a way to apply machine learning to robotics to give such machines greater abilities. In their paper ...
Engineering
Micro-manufacturing technology promises a revolution in blood testing
Imagine a pocket-sized device that can conduct laboratory-scale testing in an instant. Now imagine that device applied to the medical industry, affording a revolution in diagnosis and health monitoring worldwide.
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