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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Raising the Voices of the Dead
Experts urge caution in using AI agents to simulate dead people.
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Am I Getting Sick?
The future of over-the-counter at-home medical tests is trending toward multiple-malady detection.
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Europe's Blockchain: A Solution Struggling to Find a Problem
Decentralizing the chain of trust to a blockchain–also known as a distributed ledger–causes additional privacy and security issues.
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Using AI to Fight Food Fraud
The use of artificial intelligence to test food and beverages to determine whether labels accurately indicate their content.
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NFT Thefts and What to Do About Them
When someone steals a non-fungible token (NFT), the options for recourse are not always clear.
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Cybercriminals Eye Biometrics
Biometric markers are increasingly popular targets of data theft, potentially endangering far more than your locally stored information.
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Using AI to Improve Farm Animal Welfare
Technology helps to interpret what animals are thinking and feeling, from what they utter and how they move.
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The Future of the Datacenter
Existing and new technologies can help cut datacenters' carbon footprint.
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Finding the Fairness in AI
Algorithmic fairness is more or less obtainable, depending on how you measure it.
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The Drones of War
Drone makers are donating, or selling at cost, unmanned aerial drones to Ukraine.
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Collegiate CS Ethics Programs Emerging En Masse
Universities have created new engineering ethics programs, added concentrated subject-matter ethics programs, and made ethics course material available through...
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Reconfigurable Brain-Like Chips Top Deep Neural Net
The quantum material NNO demonstrates novel quantum properties that enable it to learn throughout its lifetime.
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Quantum Datacenter Intranet Advances
While these breakthroughs must be considered proofs of concept, they demonstrate the pieces of future quantum datacenters are coming together, says independent...
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Carla E. Brodley of Northeastern University to Receive Inaugural ACM Frances E. Allen Award for Outstanding Mentoring
Brodley developed, disseminated data-driven mentoring practices to make computer science more diverse, inclusive, and equitable.
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The Failings of Machine Learning Models
Risk assessment, accountability, explainability, and bias, among other factors, challenge the success of machine learning.
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First, There Were Bug Bounties. Now, Here Come the Bias Bounties
Offering rewards for the identification of bias in algorithms.
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BlackByte Ransomware Bites Critical Infrastructure, the San Francisco 49ers
One ransomware attack struck a professional football team as competitors were preparing for the Super Bowl.
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