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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Dusk for Dawn: Mission of Many Firsts to Gather More Data in Home Stretch
As NASA's Dawn spacecraft prepares to wrap up its groundbreaking 11-year mission, which has included two successful extended missions at Ceres, it will continue...
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Think Your Surfing Is Secret in Private Browsing Mode? Think Again
Many computer users incorrectly believe private browsing protects them against computer viruses, targeted ads, geolocation, and tracking by employers and governments...
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The Cameras that Know If You're Happy, or a Threat
Facial recognition tech has been around for decades, but it has been progressing in leaps and bounds in recent years due to advances in computing vision and artificial...
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To Make Curiosity (Et Al.) More Curious, NASA and ESA Smarten p AI in Space
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has done many great things in its decade-plus of service—but initially, it rolled 600 feet past one of the initiative's biggest discoveries...
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South Africa Celebrates Completion of Gigantic, Super-Sensitive Telescop
Scientists and politicians in South Africa are together celebrating the official opening of a gigantic telescope that is already transforming astronomy research...
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New Model for Large-Scale 3D Facial Recognition
University of Western Australia researchers have developed a three-dimensional facial recognition system.
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Tens of Thousands Go Without Home Internet; Here's How San Francisco Wants to Fix It
San Francisco has proposed a $1.9-billion project to build its own high-speed network, to provide Internet access to more than 100,000 residents who lack home connectivity...
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Looking Through the Eyes of China's Surveillance State
They perch on poles and glare from streetlamps. Some hang barely visible in the ceiling of the subway, and others seem to stretch out on braced necks and peer into...
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Inside Facebook, Twitter and Google's AI Battle Over Your Social Lives
When you sign up for Facebook on your phone, the app isn't just giving you the latest updates and photos from your friends and family.
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Microsoft Calls for Regulation of Facial Recognition, Saying It's Too Risky to Leave to Tech Industry Alone
Microsoft is calling for government regulation on facial-recognition software, one of its key technologies, saying such artificial intelligence is too important...
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How Rare Earths (What?) Could Be Crucial in a .S.-China Trade War
Amanda Lacaze grabbed her iPhone and rattled off the names of the special minerals needed to make it.
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Tracing Ghost Particles Back to a Distant Black Hole
It was the smallest bullet you could possibly imagine, a subatomic particle weighing barely more than a thought, and a cosmic blunderbuss, a supermassive black...
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Simpifying Machine-based Touch Sensing
A three-dimensionally-printed nervous system could allow robots to perceive touch the way we do.
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'We Can Build a Real Time Machine'
Travelling in time might sound like a flight of fancy, but some physicists think it might really be possible.
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Facebook's Push for Facial Recognition Prompts Privacy Alarms
When Facebook rolled out facial recognition tools in the European Union this year, it promoted the technology as a way to help people safeguard their online identities...
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Researchers Discover Android Apps Spying on sers' Screens
An analysis of Android apps found “several” clandestinely recording and sharing video and images of users' screens.
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The AI Revolution Has Spawned a New Chips Arms Race
For years, the semiconductor world seemed to have settled into a quiet balance: Intel vanquished virtually all of the RISC processors in the server world, save ...
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This Is the Brightest Early niverse Object Ever Seen
A galaxy spinning around a hungry supermassive black hole that's guzzling down matter and shooting out plasma jets has grabbed the attention of astronomers 13 billion...
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Dutch Police Fight Crime by Cracking PGP Phones
Forensic hacking puts criminals behind bars.
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