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November 7, 2016

A First: Magnets Can Be Made With 3-D Printer

Live Long and ... Facebook?

Quantum Computers: 10-Fold Boost in Stability

Brain Chip Lets Paralyzed Man Touch Again

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'Lurking Malice' in Cloud Hosting Services, Study Finds

Oct. 18, 2016 — A study of 20 major cloud hosting services has found that as many as 10 percent of the repositories hosted by them had been compromised -- with several hundred of the ... read more

'DarkLight' Enables Visible Light Communication in the Dark

Oct. 17, 2016 — With the rise in wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers that rely on smart sensors, and the continued popularity of smartphones, smart devices are taking our ... read more

'Nudges' Help Students Select Healthy Lunches

Aug. 30, 2016 — With back-to-school season in full swing, imagine this: Your child orders lunch via computer and gets a little message saying he or she needs to add more nutritious food groups. That combination ... read more

Transforming, Self-Learning Software Could Help Save the Planet

Nov. 1, 2016 — Artificially intelligent computer software that can learn, adapt and rebuild itself in real-time could help combat climate change, suggest ... read more

Quantum Processing: Coherence Vs. Control

Nov. 1, 2016 — Researchers explore the delicate balance between coherence and control with a simple but complete platform for ... read more

Weakness Is Good When Controlling Light

Oct. 31, 2016 — Researchers have demonstrated a way to control light with light using one third — in some cases, even less — of the energy typically required. The advancement, coupled ... read more

Sports Injury App Detects 99% More Health Conditions for College Athletes Than Traditional Medicine

Oct. 31, 2016 — A new cell phone app specializing in sports injury detection captured 99 percent more physical and mental health symptoms for college athletes than ... read more

Technique Reveals the Basis for Machine-Learning Systems' Decisions

Oct. 28, 2016 — In recent years, the best-performing systems in artificial-intelligence research have come courtesy of neural networks, which look for patterns in training data that yield useful predictions or ... read more

A Tiny Machine: Infinitesimal Computing Device

Oct. 28, 2016 — Electrical and computer engineers have developed a design for a functional nanoscale computing device. The concept involves a dense, three-dimensional circuit operating on an unconventional type of ... read more

Weakness Found in Common Computer Chip

Oct. 25, 2016 — A weakness has been found in the Haswell central processing unit (CPU) components that makes common computer operating systems vulnerable to malicious attacks. Computer hackers could take control of ... read more

Apple Adds Keyboard Touch Functions to Mac

ACLU Blasts Alleged Yahoo Mail Scans

Facebook, Twitter And Others Join EU Fight Against Hate Speech

This Bot Saves You The Shame Of Ignoring Your Group Chats

Children's Health, Privacy at Risk from Digital Marketing

Nov. 4, 2016 — For the first time, researchers and health experts have undertaken a comprehensive analysis of the concerning situation in the World Health Organisation European Region regarding digital marketing to ... read more

Virtual Reality: Hybrid Virtual Environment 3D Comes to the Cinema

Nov. 2, 2016 — A researcher compared the virtual reality experience with two different systems: the one with VR headsets versus one with an immersive projection system using a concave-spherical screen, developed by ... read more

Supercomputers Capture the Crush in Biological Cells

Nov. 2, 2016 — Using the largest computer in Japan – one of the most powerful in the world – research has achieved breakthroughs in understanding how proteins are affected by realistic biological environments. ... read more

New Technique Could Boost Online Word-of-Mouth Marketing

Nov. 2, 2016 — Researchers have developed a technique for creating complex predictive tools that can be used to make effective decisions about word-of-mouth marketing for online products and ... read more

Make America Tweet Again

Nov. 2, 2016 — Computer scientists have developed what they call “sentiment analysis” software that can automatically determine how someone feels based on what they write or say. To test out the accuracy of ... read more

New U.S. Robotics Roadmap Calls for Increased Regulations, Education and Research

Nov. 2, 2016 — A new U.S. Robotics Roadmap calls for better policy frameworks to safely integrate new technologies, such as self-driving cars and commercial drones, into everyday life. The document also advocates ... read more

Computer Model Is 'Crystal Ball' for E. Coli Bacteria

Oct. 27, 2016 — It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future, and even more so when they involve the reactions of living cells -- huge numbers of genes, proteins and enzymes, embedded in ... read more

New Tool Detects Malicious Websites Before They Cause Harm

Oct. 27, 2016 — Malicious websites promoting scams, distributing malware and collecting phished credentials pervade the web. As quickly as we block or blacklist them, criminals set up new domain names to support ... read more

Finding Patterns in Corrupted Data

Oct. 26, 2016 — A new model-fitting technique is efficient even for data sets with hundreds of variables, say ... read more

Telerehabilitation Through Internet Proved to Ameliorate Both the Health and the Quality of Life of Women Suffering Breast Cancer

Oct. 26, 2016 — Telerehabilitation (rehabilitation with the help of the Internet, using the application Skype as a control platform) may help to alleviate the side effects associated with breast cancer and its ... read more