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Virtual reality headsets are vulnerable to hackers

Headset hardware and virtual keyboard interfaces that immerse us into expanding worlds of virtual reality also create new opportunities for hackers, UCR computer scientists find studies to be presented at a national cyber security conference.

By David Danelski | August 8, 2023 | Business, Science / Technology
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Google & ChatGPT have mixed results in medical info queries

A study led by University of California, Riverside, computer scientists found that queries for medical information on ChatGPT produced more objective information than Google, but the ChatGPT results can be outdated and lack the sources of its information.

By David Danelski | July 28, 2023 | Business, Science / Technology, Social Science / Education
Quantum electrons

UCR team creates “quantum composites” for various electrical and optical innovations

UCR team has shown in the laboratory the unique and practical function of newly created materials, which they called quantum composites, that may advance electrical, optical, and computer technologies.

By David Danelski | April 18, 2023 | Science / Technology
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Researchers warn of tick-borne disease babesiosis

UC Riverside and Yale University team sequences and mines genome of the pathogen Babesia duncani

By Iqbal Pittalwala | April 13, 2023 | Science / Technology, Health
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Protecting computer vision from adversarial attacks

UC Riverside engineers are developing methods to keep self-driving cars and autonomous drones from being hacked

By Holly Ober | June 15, 2022 | Science / Technology
A figure from a scientific paper showing an automated approach to detecting manipulated facial expressions in videos

New method detects deepfake videos with up to 99% accuracy

Two-pronged technique detects manipulated facial expressions and identity swaps

By Holly Ober | May 3, 2022 | Science / Technology
A person uses a tablet computer to shop online while drinking a cup of coffee

Like peanut butter? This algorithm has a hunch as to what you'll buy next

A new technique can incorporate customer behavior into recommendation algorithms

By Holly Ober | February 2, 2022 | Science / Technology
A plane drops pink fire retardant on a wildfire in Utah

Wildfire dataset could help firefighters save lives and property

WildfireDB contains over 17 million data points that capture how fires have spread in the contiguous United States over the last decade

By Holly Ober | December 8, 2021 | Science / Technology
A smartphone displaying an icon representing wireless connectivity

Botnet buster finds IoT command and control centers

Tool fools malware twice and can trick it into revealing itself

By Holly Ober | November 5, 2021 | Science / Technology
A syringe injecting a vaccine into a ball with pins that represents the covid-19 virus

Scientists are using AI originally developed for producing deepfake videos to stop future pandemics

Generative adversarial networks are being used to predict the structure of antibodies that could neutralize a previously unknown virus

By Holly Ober | October 11, 2021 | Science / Technology
Google trends graph for anosmia from 2019 to Aug 2021

Data mining tools combat COVID-19 misinformation and identify symptoms

Computer scientists use Google Trends and a government dataset to track symptoms and sift through misinformation

By Holly Ober | August 19, 2021 | Science / Technology
A soft robotic hand grips an orange with the UCR logo

Air-powered computer memory helps soft robot control movements

“Airhead” robot uses pneumatic RAM to play piano

By Holly Ober | July 16, 2021 | Science / Technology
The hand of an old person holding the hand of a younger person

Chatbots for dementia patients and caregivers need more work

Systematic review of apps finds need for evidence-based chatbots that have undergone end user evaluation

By Holly Ober | June 15, 2021 | Science / Technology
a soft robot made at UCR

UC Riverside offers UC system's first master's degree in robotics

Algorithmic bias is one problem the program will tackle

By Holly Ober | May 25, 2021 | Science / Technology
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How to burst your bubble: broadening your social media horizons

A computer scientist explains how our online behavior drives us into echo chambers

By Holly Ober | February 3, 2021 | Science / Technology
Illustration signifying hacked password by Santeri Viinamäki on Wikimedia Commons

SourceFinder software stalks malware in the wild

UC Riverside computer scientists develop tool to locate malware source code repositories

By Holly Ober | November 16, 2020 | Science / Technology
Pirate flag on laptop  screen by Michael Geiger on Unsplash

DNS cache poisoning ready for a comeback

Derandomizing the source port enables attacks that work on all layers of DNS caches

By Holly Ober | November 11, 2020 | Science / Technology

UC Riverside receives $7.5 million to improve large-scale networked systems

New Department of Defense Center of Excellence will help develop secure, fully networked command, control, and communications infrastructures

By Holly Ober | October 2, 2020 | Science / Technology
An intersection near the entrance to UCR

UC Riverside computer scientists receive grant to improve security of visual artificial intelligence

Amit Roy-Chowdhury leads project that will develop robust context-aware machine vision for computers

By Holly Ober | July 27, 2020 | Science / Technology
chicken wearing a backpack sensor

Parasite infestations revealed by tiny chicken backpacks

Blood-feeding livestock mites can be detected with wearable sensor technology nicknamed “Fitbits for chickens.” To help farmers detect mite infestations, a team of entomologists, computer scientists, and biologists led by UC Riverside entomologist Amy Murillo has created a new insect detection system. The team’s work is detailed in the journal...

By Jules Bernstein | July 13, 2020 | Science / Technology
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