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Tech Xplore / How hackers can 'poison' open-source code
Cornell Tech researchers have discovered a new type of online attack that can manipulate natural-language modeling systems and evade any known defense—with possible consequences ranging from modifying movie reviews to manipulating ...
Tech Xplore / Hydrogen-powered vehicles: A realistic path to clean energy?
Each morning at a transit facility in Canton, Ohio, more than a dozen buses pull up to a fueling station before fanning out to their routes in this city south of Cleveland.
Tech Xplore / A holistic approach to materials for the next generation of electrical insulation
Our electrical infrastructure has remained largely unchanged since World War II, but advances in technology—specifically materials—opened doors we never would have thought possible in the past. These advances have set ...
Tech Xplore / Faster path planning for rubble-roving robots
A new algorithm speeds up path planning for robots that use arm-like appendages to maintain balance on treacherous terrain such as disaster areas or construction sites, researchers at the University of Michigan have shown. ...
Tech Xplore / Dutch lead charge for electric car stations
They are best known for bike-riding, but the climate-vulnerable Dutch are leading the way for electric cars with the largest number of charging stations in Europe.
Tech Xplore / Touted as clean, 'blue' hydrogen may be worse than gas, coal
"Blue" hydrogen—an energy source that involves a process for making hydrogen by using methane in natural gas—is being lauded as a clean, green energy to help reduce global warming. But Cornell and Stanford University ...
Tech Xplore / Codex, an AI system that translates natural language to programming code
Artificial intelligence research company OpenAI has announced the development of an AI system that translates natural language to programming code—called Codex, the system is being released as a free API, at least for the ...
Tech Xplore / Is your mobile provider tracking your location? This new technology could stop it.
Right now, there is a good chance your phone is tracking your location—even with GPS services turned off. That's because, to receive service, our phones reveal personal identifiers to cell towers owned by major network ...
Tech Xplore / Researchers take step toward next-generation brain-computer interface system
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are emerging assistive devices that may one day help people with brain or spinal injuries to move or communicate. BCI systems depend on implantable sensors that record electrical signals in ...
Tech Xplore / Facebook engineers announce development of Time Cards
A pair of Facebook engineers have announced the development of Time Cards—PCIe cards that can be used in x86 architecture machines to serve as a timekeeping device. In their announcement on the Facebook Engineering blog ...
Tech Xplore / Teaching AI to see depth in photographs and paintings
Researchers in SFU's Computational Photography Lab hope to give computers a visual advantage that we humans take for granted—the ability to see depth in photographs. While humans naturally can determine how close or far ...
Tech Xplore / Answer to thorny question could unlock internet security
Is it easier to check that a solution to a problem is correct than it is to solve the problem?