Consumer & Gadgets
Apple is apologizing for allowing outsiders to listen to snippets of people's recorded conversations with its digital assistant Siri, a practice that undermined its attempts to position itself as a trusted steward of privacy.
Aug 28, 2019
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Internet
Our society's historical record is undergoing a dramatic transformation.
Aug 20, 2019
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Hi Tech & Innovation
A French daredevil who spent years developing a jet-powered hoverboard zoomed across the English Channel on Sunday, fulfilling his quest after pulling off a tricky refuelling manoeuvre that had cut short his first attempt ...
Aug 4, 2019
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Internet
Ancestry is digitizing millions of Holocaust and Nazi-persecution records and making them searchable online for the first time ever. Anyone, not just Ancestry's paid members, can explore the records at the company's site.
Aug 1, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
The sun is an inexhaustible and sustainable source of energy. Hence, photovoltaics is gaining importance in German energy production. Among promising materials for solar cells—with a high efficiency and low production costs—are ...
Jul 30, 2019
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Machine learning & AI
Real and fake smiles can be tricky to tell apart, but researchers at the University of Bradford have now developed computer software that can spot false facial expressions.
Jul 29, 2019
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Machine learning & AI
Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have demonstrated that an artificial intelligence tool can perform as well as human reviewers—and much more rapidly—in extracting clinical information regarding changes in tumors ...
Jul 25, 2019
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Automotive
Volvo Cars, the Swedish luxury brand owned by China's Geely, defied a slowing global auto market to set a record for sales in the first half of the year, although US trade war tariffs and falling prices squeezed profits.
Jul 18, 2019
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Machine learning & AI
In a review publishing July 17 in the journal Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, researchers examined how artificial intelligence (AI) could affect drug development in the coming decade.
Jul 17, 2019
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Security
Got too many passwords to remember? Just wait. It's going to get a lot worse.
Dec 16, 2018
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