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Boosting the popularity of social media posts

October 23, 2019 0 Comments Computer Programming, Computers and Internet, Hacking, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Popular Culture, Social Issues, STEM Education

Computer scientists created a new algorithm to recommend tags for social media posts which should boost the popularity of the post in question. This algorithm takes into account more kinds of information than previous algorithms with a similar goal. The result is a measurably improved view count for posts which use the tags recommended by this new algorithm. Such research could be useful commercially and for other researchers who study online behavior.

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Browser tool aims to help researchers ID malicious websites, code

October 22, 2019 0 Comments Computer Modeling, Computer Programming, Computer Science, Computers and Internet, encryption, Hacking, Internet, Software

Researchers have developed an open-source tool that allows users to track and record the behavior of JavaScript programs without alerting the websites that run those programs. The tool, called VisibleV8, runs in the Chrome browser and is designed to detect malicious programs that are capable of evading existing malware detection systems.

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Machine learning's next frontier: Epigenetic drug discovery

October 22, 2019 0 Comments Computer Programming, Computer Science, Computers and Internet, Epigenetics, Neural Interfaces, Personalized Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, Pharmacology

Scientists have developed a machine-learning algorithm that gleans information from microscope images — allowing for high-throughput epigenetic drug screens that could unlock new treatments for cancer, heart disease, mental illness and more.

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Novel method turns any 3D object into a cubic style

October 21, 2019 0 Comments Computer Graphics, Computer Modeling, Computer Programming, Computer Science, Computers and Internet, Mathematics, video games, Virtual Reality

Computer scientists have developed a computational method to quantify an abstract cubic style. Additionally, their method also enables users to create new shapes that resemble the input shape and exhibit the cubic style.

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Prevention better than cure at preventing young users from getting involved in cybercrime

October 21, 2019 0 Comments Child Development, Child Psychology, Computer Programming, Computers and Internet, Consumer Behavior, Infant and Preschool Learning, Internet, Math Puzzles

Highly-targeted messaging campaigns from law enforcement can be surprisingly effective at dissuading young gamers from getting involved in cybercrime, a new study has suggested.

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Giving robots a faster grasp

October 17, 2019 0 Comments Artificial intelligence, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Computer Programming, Computers and Internet, Engineering, Robotics, Robotics Research

Engineers have found a way to significantly speed up the planning process required for a robot to adjust its grasp on an object by pushing that object against a stationary surface. Whereas traditional algorithms would require tens of minutes for planning out a sequence of motions, the new team's approach shaves this planning process down to less than a second.

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First demonstration of one petabit per second network node

October 17, 2019 0 Comments Biochemistry, Communications, Computer Programming, Computers and Internet, Distributed Computing, Engineering and Construction, Optics, Telecommunications

Computer scientists have demonstrated the first large-scale optical switching testbed capable of handling 1 Petabit per second optical signals. This demonstration made use of state-of-the-art large-scale and low-loss optical switches based on MEMS technology, three types of next-generation spatial-division multiplexing fibers, and included data rates from 10 Terabit per second to 1 Petabit per second. This is a major step forward towards practical petabit-class backbone networks.

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Assembler robots make large structures from little pieces

October 16, 2019 0 Comments Artificial intelligence, Civil Engineering, Communications, Computer Programming, Engineering, Engineering and Construction, Robotics, Robotics Research

Systems of tiny robots may someday build high-performance structures, from airplanes to space settlements.

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Women have substantially less influence on Twitter than men in academic medicine

October 14, 2019 0 Comments Alternative Medicine, Computer Programming, Computers and Internet, Hacking, Math Puzzles, Medical Topics, Menopause, Teen Health

Women who are health policy or health services researchers face a significant disparity in social media influence compared to their male peers, according to a new study. Although the average number of tweets among all researchers tend to be consistent, women trail behind men in follower counts, regardless of how active they are on Twitter.

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Engineers solve 50-year-old puzzle in signal processing

October 10, 2019 0 Comments Computer Modeling, Computer Programming, Computer Science, Computers and Internet, Engineering, Optics, technology, Virtual Environment

Engineers have solved a 50-year-old puzzle in signal processing. They've formulated the 'inverse chirp z-transform,' an algorithm related to one that's running on your cell phone right now. It took some computing power and some math expertise to do it.

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