Computer Sciences
Money laundering is big business but wholly illegal big business. It has an enormously negative impact on local, national, and international economies as well as providing the financial means to fund other criminal activities ...
Aug 10, 2020
0
11
Computer Sciences
In efforts to automatically capture important data from scientific papers, computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a method to accurately detect small, geometric objects ...
Aug 4, 2020
0
79
Machine learning & AI
The past is often the window to our future, especially when it comes to natural disasters. Using data from the 2018 floods that struck southwestern Japan to calibrate a machine learning model, researchers from the International ...
Jul 16, 2020
0
7
Engineering
As lockdown requirements ease, COVID-19 is changing the way we use indoor spaces. That presents challenges for those who manage those spaces, from homes to offices and factories.
Jun 16, 2020
0
138
Energy & Green Tech
A computer model that uses existing weather data to map long-term wind patterns at prospective wind turbine sites could help energy companies set up wind turbines more quickly and less expensively. The model eliminates the ...
Apr 24, 2020
1
8
Consumer & Gadgets
CU Boulder researcher Daniel Larremore has never held a nasal swab and doesn't wear scrubs. Instead, he relies on math to track the spread of human diseases.
Apr 8, 2020
0
4
Machine learning & AI
A team of Army and industry researchers have developed a metric for neural networks—computing systems modeled loosely after the human brain—that could assess the reliability and confidence of the next generation of artificial ...
Mar 30, 2020
0
4
Machine learning & AI
A new MIT study finds "health knowledge graphs," which show relationships between symptoms and diseases and are intended to help with clinical diagnosis, can fall short for certain conditions and patient populations. The ...
Jan 10, 2020
0
22
Computer Sciences
In the not too distant future, we can expect to see our skies filled with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) delivering packages, maybe even people, from location to location.
Dec 5, 2019
0
10
Internet
The data-collection business model fueling Facebook and Google represents a threat to human rights around the world, Amnesty International said in a report Wednesday.
Nov 21, 2019
0
7
