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The Pentagon's Drones May Soon Run on Open Source Software
The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Innovation Unit has reached a deal with Swiss company Auterion to enhance the agency's open source drone software.
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IARPA Is Investing in AI That Constantly Analyzes Worldwide Satellite Images
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity has released a draft solicitation for an analytics tool that can combine satellite images and detect human...
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Voting Experts: Why the Heck Are People Still Voting Online?
A new study calls online ballots a key weakness in the securing of U.S. election systems, and estimates at least 100,000 Americans cast online ballots in the 2016...
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NIH Partners With Google Cloud to Speed p Medical Breakthroughs
A new U.S. National Institutes of Health program aims to help researchers accelerate biomedical advances by providing access to commercial cloud computing technologies...
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The Pentagon Wants to Bring Mind-Controlled Tech to Troops
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is selecting research teams to develop a neural interface to allow soldiers to link their brains to military...
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Researchers Built an Invisible Backdoor to Hack Ai's Decisions
Researchers demonstrated a cyberattack against artificial intelligence that controls driverless cars and image-recognition systems by installing an invisible backdoor...
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International Group Aims to Protect the Core of the Public Internet
The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace has established a research group to protect the public Internet's core and critical infrastructure.
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Researchers Are Teaching Artificial Intelligence How to Terrify Humans
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have trained a computer to produce scary images.
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What Iarpa Knows About Your Canceled Dinner Reservation
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is running several projects examining how crowdsourced data could be used to predict specific events.
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This Is the Best Way to Take a Selfie, According to Artificial Intelligence
A Stanford University Ph.D. student has trained a neural network to determine what constitutes a good selfie.
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Federal Researchers Want to ntangle Internet of Things
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has released its Draft Framework for Cyber-Physical Systems.
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The Smartest Hackers in the Room (hint: They're Not the Humans)
Teams from around the world will engage in a dress rehearsal next month for the U.S. Pentagon's Cyber Grand Challenge, a competition to develop automated hacker...
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Ftc Pits Humans Against Robocalls in New Contest
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is launching two contests asking the public to develop solutions for blocking, forwarding, and analyzing automated calls.
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How Reverse-Engineering the Brain Could Help Machines Learn
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has announced a research and development program to reverse-engineer the algorithms brains use.
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Boosting Hispanic Share of Tech Workforce Could Be Key to Closing STEM Gap
Greater Hispanic participation could play a crucial role in reaching the Obama administration's goals for increased student exposure to opportunities in STEM fields...
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Crowdsourcing Competitions Encourage Malicious Behavior, Study Finds
A new study has found that crowdsourcing competitions produce some of the worst competitive tendencies in people.
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Sandia Draws From Nuclear Science in Inaugurating New Cyber Lab
Sandia National Laboratories has launched the Cybersecurity Engineering Research Laboratory, testing hardware vulnerabilities and modeling cyberweapons on supercomputers...
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Can You Predict the Future By Reading Twitter? The Pentagon Thinks Maybe
The Defense Department wants new computer tools to analyze mounds of unstructured text, blogs, and tweets as part of a coordinated push to help military analysts...
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White House Official Calls For Broad Regulations on Internet Use
White House Office of Science and Technology deputy chief technology officer Daniel Weitzner is calling for a broad and flexible regulatory framework for Internet...
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MIT Team Thinks Outside the Box to Snag Social Media Prize
A team affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won the U.S. State Department's social media contest, the TAG Challenge, which required participants...12