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Study Finds Parents' Social Media Use Associated with Parenting Style
Researchers found a link between parents’ social media use and their parenting styles.
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Have iPhone Cameras Become Too Smart?
Apple's newest smartphone models use machine learning to make every image look professionally taken. That doesn't mean the photos are good.
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EU Takes Aim at Big Tech's Power With Landmark Digital Act
The European Union was expected to finalize the Digital Markets Act, the most sweeping legislation to regulate tech since a European privacy law was passed in 2018...
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Anonymous Claims it Hacked Russia's Central Bank
Group has already leaked thousands of Kremlin documents relating to the war.
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Email as Therapy
Many people find in-person counseling threatening, and may prefer the flexibility of message-based mental health services.
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Russia's Killer Drone in Ukraine Raises Fears About AI in Warfare
The maker of the lethal drone claims that it can identify targets using artificial intelligence.
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Most People are Cool with Implanting Chips in Their Brains, but Only if They Can Turn Them Off
More than three-quarters of U.S. adults polled were against surgically implanting a chip in their brains to improve their cognitive abilities.
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A Big Bet to Kill the Password for Good
FIDO is looking to get to the heart of what still makes passwordless schemes tough to navigate.
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Helping A.I. to Learn About Indigenous Cultures
Data on Native communities are not at the levels needed for accuracy in A.I.-driven tools. A group is trying to solve that problem.
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Battery-free Devices Float on the Wind like Dandelion Seeds
University of Washington researchers have developed a tiny battery-free device that can be blown by wind currents, like dandelion seeds.
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How MIT's Robot Cheetah Got Its Speed
Researchers have designed a new version of the Mini Cheetah robot that can achieve high running speeds more efficiently than its predecessors.
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See 'Spot' Save: Robot Dogs Join NY Fire Department
Plans to use two new robot dogs only in precarious search and rescue missions may help avoid the controversy that met the Police Department's robots last year. ...
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New Attack Amplifies DDoSes by 4 Billion-Fold
New technique also stretches out distributed denial of service durations to 14 hours.
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Smartphone App Calculates Genetic Risk for Heart Attack
Scripps Research uses DNA data from 23andMe to calculate risk for coronary artery disease.
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WARNING: Objects in Driverless Car Sensors May Be Closer Than They Appear
Researchers have identified an attack strategy that can trick industry-standard autonomous vehicle sensors into believing nearby objects are closer or further than...
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'No-Code' Brings the Power of AI to the Masses
Products allow anyone to use AI without writing any computer code.
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Here Come the Artificial Intelligence Nutritionists
Companies are experimenting with personalized diet apps, saying the future of healthy eating is A.I.
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How California Is Building the Nation's First Privacy Police
A new state agency has a $10-million budget to regulate Google, Facebook and others. But first it needs to be created.
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