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Amazon Alexa Has Got Some Serious Skills – Spying On Users !
"Alexa, are you spying on me?" — aaaa.....mmmm.....hmmm.....maybe!!!
Security researchers have developed a new malicious 'skill' for Amazon's popular voice assistant Alexa that can turn...
A better clot-buster drug for strokes?
After a stroke, many patients are given the clot-busting intravenous drug alteplase, but another drug may be more effective, Australian researchers report.
Among more than...
Biomarkers and efficacy of vaccine responses among patients treated with new MS drug
In March 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved ocrelizumab as the first treatment for both relapsing (RMS) and progressive forms of multiple...
Metastatic cancer gorges on fructose in the liver
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated that metastatic cancer cells can reprogram their metabolism to thrive in new organs.
Specifically, the research shows that...
The complicated biology of garlic
Researchers today generally agree that eating garlic, used for thousands of years to treat human disease, can reduce the risk of developing certain kinds...
A system for influencing hypnagogic micro-dreams
A team of researchers at MIT has created a hand-worn device that they claim can influence a person's micro-dreams during hypnagogia.
The group has announced...
Researchers suggest exoskeletal technology has evolved to embrace the spirit of exoskeletons in science...
A pair of researchers affiliated with the University of Tsukuba and Cyberdyne are suggesting exoskeletal technology has evolved to complement science fiction.
In their paper...
NVIDIA researchers raise the bar on image inpainting
For those not yet familiar with photo reconstruction tools, the title of this paper on arXiv might be totally puzzling:
"Image Inpainting for Irregular Holes...
Release of PoC Exploit for New Drupal Flaw Once Again Puts Sites Under Attack
Only a few hours after the Drupal team releases latest updates to fix a new remote code execution flaw in its content management system...
Hackers build a ‘Master Key’ that unlocks millions of Hotel rooms
If you often leave your valuable and expensive stuff like laptop and passports in the hotel rooms, then beware.
Your room can be unlocked by...
Common class of drugs linked to dementia even when taken 20 years before diagnosis
The largest and most detailed study of the long-term impact of anticholinergic drugs, a class of drugs commonly prescribed in the United States and...
Drug-filled, 3-D printed dentures could fight off infections
Nearly two-thirds of the U.S. denture-wearing population suffer frequent fungal infections that cause inflammation, redness and swelling in the mouth.
To better treat these infections,...
New link between sleep arousals and body temperature may also be connected to SIDS
Brief arousals during sleep—sometimes as many as ten to fifteen per night—appear random in time and occur in humans and even in animals.
What is...
Researchers use emerging memory devices to develop electronic circuits for cybersecurity applications
While we embrace the way the Internet of Things already is making our lives more streamlined and convenient, the cybersecurity risk posed by millions...
Organoids Reveal how Deadly Brain Cancers Grow
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is an incredibly deadly brain cancer and presents a serious black box challenge.
It’s virtually impossible to observe how these tumors...
