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Team's Process Enables Wash-and-Wear Biosensors
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Team's Process Enables Wash-and-Wear Biosensors

Researchers have developed a process that turns clothing fabric into biosensors which measure a muscle's electrical activity.

Giving Robots Social Skills
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Giving Robots Social Skills

MIT researchers have incorporated social interactions into a framework for robotics, enabling machines to estimate whether their actions will help or hinder another...

14-Year-Old Finds a Way to Accelerate Calculations Using 'Antiprime' Numbers
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14-Year-Old Finds a Way to Accelerate Calculations Using 'Antiprime' Numbers

Akilan Sankaran, 14, was awarded the $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize for a computer program he wrote that can calculate "highly divisible numbers," sometimes called...

Computational Scientist to Standardize Biological Data, Make It Searchable
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Computational Scientist to Standardize Biological Data, Make It Searchable

Michigan State University computational scientist Arjun Krishnan is working to standardize data from more than two million biological experiments and make it searchable...

AI Resurrects Ancient Board Games and Makes Them Playable Online
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AI Resurrects Ancient Board Games and Makes Them Playable Online

Researchers from Maastricht University have developed an artificial intelligence that's reconstructed nearly a thousand ancient board games thought lost to history...

Braintrust Network Puts Freelance Tech Jobs on the Blockchain
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Braintrust Network Puts Freelance Tech Jobs on the Blockchain

The decentralized Braintrust network maintained by six different software companies matches employers and freelancers using cryptocurrency and a community-based...

Computer Scientist Wins $1 Million Artificial Intelligence Prize
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Computer Scientist Wins $1 Million Artificial Intelligence Prize

Duke University computer scientist and engineer Cynthia Rudin's work applying machine learning to predict which Con Edison manhole covers were at risk of exploding...

Preparing Students for the Quantum Information Revolution
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Preparing Students for the Quantum Information Revolution

The current educational system isn't prepared to meet the surging demand for workers, researchers, and teachers who understand and can teach the core concepts in...

Smartphone Sensor Data Might Detect Cannabis Intoxication
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Smartphone Sensor Data Might Detect Cannabis Intoxication

Smartphone sensor data might be able to determine if a person is intoxicated after consuming marijuana, according to a new study.

Fighting Fire With Data Science
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Fighting Fire With Data Science

UC San Diego's appointment of LANL researcher Rodman Linn indicates an approach of using data science to address wildfires.

Researchers' AI May Reveal Climate-Change Tipping Points
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Researchers' AI May Reveal Climate-Change Tipping Points

Researchers are developing a deep learning algorithm that could act as an early warning system against runaway climate change.

County IT Supervisor Is Accused of Mining Bitcoin at the Office
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County IT Supervisor Is Accused of Mining Bitcoin at the Office

An IT supervisor is accused of hiding 46 devices used for mining cryptocurrency in Suffolk County offices, costing the county thousands of dollars in electricity...

How Music and Programming Led Me to Build Digital Microworlds
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How Music and Programming Led Me to Build Digital Microworlds

The ability to discover and experience world building is a relatively unique privilege afforded to computer programmers.

Model That Predicts How to Build Muscle Could Become a Software Product
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Model That Predicts How to Build Muscle Could Become a Software Product

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a mathematical model that can predict the optimum exercise regime for building muscle, and could form...

Project Brings AI to Environmental Research in the Field
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Project Brings AI to Environmental Research in the Field

A 30-foot tower on the edge of the Ohio State University Airport is the focal point of a research project that will explore using AI and a variety of sensors to...

International Research Project to Investigate Covert Online Influence
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International Research Project to Investigate Covert Online Influence

An international research cohort that has received about $2.35 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to investigate the use of social cyber forensics...

A Bunch of MIT Students Got $100 of Free Bitcoin in 2014 – Some Wasted It on Sushi
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A Bunch of MIT Students Got $100 of Free Bitcoin in 2014 – Some Wasted It on Sushi

In 2014, MIT computer science student Jeremy Rubin offered all undergraduate students on campus $100 worth of bitcoin. Some got rich. Some spent it at a sushi restaurant...

DOE to Spend $15.1M for Computational, Data Infrastructure for Science Research
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DOE to Spend $15.1M for Computational, Data Infrastructure for Science Research

The U.S. Department of Energy announced $15.1 million for three collaborative research projects at five universities to integrate AI into flexible data and computer...

Researchers Use Patent Data to Assess Technological Improvement
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Researchers Use Patent Data to Assess Technological Improvement

Researchers from MIT used U.S. patents as a dataset to assist predictions of performance improvement in 1,757 discrete technology domains.

House Bill Would Define Software and Data Roles at Federal Agencies
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House Bill Would Define Software and Data Roles at Federal Agencies

Legislation before the U.S. House of Representatives would define roles for software development, software engineering, data management, and knowledge management...
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