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In this April 26, 2018, file photo, visitors stand in front of an electronic data display showing a map of China at the Global Mobile Internet conference in Beijing. China's industry ministry has announced a 6-month campaign to clean up what it says are serious problems with internet apps violating...

A new "moonshot" project from Google parent Alphabet will develop software for industrial robots. Google's parent Alphabet unveiled a new "moonshot" project to develop software for robotics which could be used in a wide range of industries. The new unit, dubbed Intrinsic, will "become an independent Alphabet company," and seek...

Credit: Michigan State University Stressed out? Need to talk? Turning to a chatbot for emotional support might help. ComArtSci Associate Professor of Communication Jingbo Meng wanted to see just how effective artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots could be in delivering supportive messages. So she set up the research and used a...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A Twitter user has found and made public a Windows 10/11 vulnerability that exposes admin passwords to local users who can then escalate their privileges up to admin, giving them total system access. As he notes on his posts, he found that Windows Security Account Manager...

Credit: Pavel Odinev / Skoltech Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues from Mobile TeleSystems have introduced the notion of inappropriate text messages and released a neural model capable of detecting them, along with a large collection of such messages for further research. Among the potential applications are preventing corporate chatbots...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A team of scientists led by Associate Professor Haruka Ozaki of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research at the University of Tsukuba in collaboration with Dr. Koichi Takahashi from RIKEN used mathematical algorithms to optimize the schedule of automated biology laboratory robots. By analyzing the needs...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp has announced the launch of a trial aimed at freeing its users from smartphones. In a blog post on Wednesday, Facebook engineers said the new feature would allow for the hugely popular service be used on multiple "non-phone" devices without needing to...

Madison Arcemont. Credit: Southern Methodist University, Hillsman S. Jackson A recent graduate of SMU's Dedman School of Law has written computer language for a smart contract that, if adopted by courts, could make it much easier and less expensive for someone to sort out the estate of a loved one...

The particular application of face recognition in the NIST study — matching images of travelers to previously obtained photos of those travelers — is currently part of the U.S. onboarding process for international flights. Credit: N. Hanacek/NIST The most accurate face recognition algorithms have demonstrated the capability to confirm airline...

The 1989 AIDS Trojan (PC Cyborg) ransom demand. Credit: Joseph L. Popp, AIDS Information Trojan author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Australian organizations are a soft target for ransomware attacks, say experts who yesterday issued a fresh warning that the government needs to do more to stop agencies and businesses...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Fans of Fortnite can dress like a king starting Wednesday. The popular video game is teaming up with NBA star LeBron James to launch a pair of new outfits players can use to spruce up their in-game avatars.In a statement, Fortnite publisher Epic Games said the...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain PC owners will experience some big changes to their Windows software later this year. Last month, Microsoft unveiled Windows 11, the latest operating system powering personal computers. And the company says it is scheduled to roll out in late 2021 and continue into 2022.Panos Panay, Microsoft's...

An estimate of projected EV charging infrastructure buildout through 2025 and 2040, respectively, using the REVISE-II software tool. Credit: Fei Xie/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a nationwide modeling tool to help infrastructure planners decide where and when to locate electric vehicle charging...

The new indoor module for Cornell’s Eddy3D software, which shows airflow in various indoor configurations, will be available July 30. Credit: Cornell University As offices nationwide spring back to life, interior space designers and architects will soon have an easy-to-use planning tool to place indoor workplace furniture, staff, partitions and...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers from Brown University and MIT have developed a new data science framework that allows users to process data with the programming language Python—without paying the 'performance tax' normally associated with a user-friendly language. The new framework, called Tuplex, is able to process data queries written...

Credit: University of Texas at San Antonio The financial technology industry predicts that digital currency will replace paper money by 2030. In 2019 alone, the demand to find blockchain developers grew fivefold. To solve this societal challenge, researchers at UTSA have developed a new game to teach kids the concepts...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain On Thursday, PC owners got a first look at the future of Windows. Microsoft hosted an event Thursday detailing what's next for Windows 11, the operating system that has helped power personal computers since the '80s.Last month during the tech giant's Build developers conference, Microsoft CEO...

Microsoft's new Windows 11 operating system will enable users to download and use Android mobile applications. Microsoft on Thursday unveiled a new version of the Windows software powering most of the world's computers, opening the door to apps tailored for Google-backed Android operating system. The US technology titan said Windows...

In this Nov. 10, 2016, file photo, people walk near a Microsoft office in New York. When U.S. law enforcement officials are fishing for information, they increasingly know where to go—in the vast digital ponds of personal data that Big Tech companies have created in their devices and online services...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Microsoft, via its Security Intelligence account on Twitter, has issued a warning to Windows users of a new type of phishing scam that involves emails requesting users to dial a call center. They warn users to not dial the call center because following the instructions given...