Improving Traffic Safety With a Crowdsourced Traffic Violation Reporting App

April 17, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: KAIST, 04/10/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Professor Uichin Lee and a research team at KAIST have developed and tested an app called Mobile Roadwatch. Mobile Roadwatch is a crowdsourced app that helps…

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Paralysed Man Moves Arm Using Power of Thought in World First

April 10, 2017April 10, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: The Guardian, 3/29/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Lead author Dr. Bolu Ajiboye and a team at Case Western Reserve University developed an experimental procedure that re-enables motor function in a paralyzed patient's…

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Protecting Web Users’ Privacy

April 3, 2017April 6, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: MIT News, 3/23/2017 >> View the Article << Summary MIT and Stanford University researchers are developing Splinter, an encryption system that hides online database queries. Splinter splits up and encrypts the request for data,…

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Using Virtual Reality to Catch a Real Ball

March 27, 2017March 26, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: EurekAlert!, 3/20/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Disney researchers are developing ways to improve virtual-reality interactions with physical objects. Specifically, they are seeking to make it easier to catch a real physical object…

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Why We Should Not Know Our Own Passwords

March 20, 2017March 20, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: The Conversation, 3/9/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Elon University Professor Megan Squire looks into possible methods for protecting the data on your smartphone and social media accounts. The article focuses on potential searches…

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Robot Uses Social Feedback to Fetch Objects Intelligently

March 13, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: Brown University, 3/6/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Brown's Humans to Robots Lab has developed an algorithm to reduce the errors a robot makes when it fetches an object. The robot asks questions and…

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Twitter Researchers Offer Clues for Why Trump Won

March 6, 2017March 14, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: University of Rochester, 2/20/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Jiebo Luo and Yu Wang are using Twitter data to develop models that would correctly predict the result of the 2016 presidential election. They are…

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New Internet Security Device Launched to Safeguard Schools Against Child Abuse

February 27, 2017March 14, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: Plymouth University, 2/20/2017 >> View the Article << Summary The University of Plymouth has developed ICAlert, an easy-to-install device that monitors network traffic and sends alerts if users try to access dangerous web content…

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Voice Control Everywhere

February 20, 2017February 20, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: MIT News, 2/13/2017 >> View the Article << Summary A chip designed by MIT researchers may reduce the level of energy required to use speech recognition. This dedicated, application-specific speech-recognition chip will use up…

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Mobile Phone and Satellite Data to Map Poverty

February 13, 2017February 13, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: University of Southampton, 2/07/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers, led by WorldPop at University of Southampton and Flowminder Foundation, have developed a way to measure poverty levels in Bangladesh. They combine anonymous…

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Finding Credibility Clues on Twitter

February 6, 2017February 8, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: Georgia Tech News Center, 1/26/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Georgia Tech Researchers have created an early prototype system that uses a language model to predict the perceived credibility of social media messages,…

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This App Offers Personal Recommendations While Keeping Your Data Private

January 30, 2017February 8, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: MIT Technology Review, 1/23/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Researchers developed an app that suggests news stories using locally stored personal data. They are investigating ways to provide services to users without storing…

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