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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Australia's Fastest Ever Supercomputer to Go Live in November
Fujitsu Australia will upgrade the power of Australia's fastest computer 10-fold by November.
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Mobile Malware Attacks are Booming in 2019: These are the Most Common Threats
Malware attacks against mobile devices, especially Android handsets, have ballooned this year.
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VR Helps Police Train for Active-Shooter Scenarios
The New York City Police Department is using virtual reality to help train officers for active-shooter scenarios.
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Supercomputers Use Graphics Processors to Solve Longstanding Turbulence Question
Researchers have solved a longstanding question in turbulence using supercomputers running simulations on graphics processors originally developed for gaming.
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Improved Prosthetic Hand Has Lighter Touch, Easy Grip
Researchers have improved a commercially developed, three-dimensional printed robotic prosthetic arm, allowing an amputee to grasp his wife's hand and "feel" her...
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Phone Movement Predicts Personality Types
Researchers in Australia used data from the accelerometers in mobile phones to predict users' personalities.
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The Algorithm That Changed Quantum Machine Learning
A college student discovered a classical computing algorithm that experts overlooked. It promises to change both classical and quantum machine learning.
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What Makes a Robot Likable?
Interactions with robotics teach us more about people.
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Artificial Skin Can Sense 1,000 Times Faster Than Human Nerves
Researchers at the National University of Singapore have developed artificial skin containing physical sensors that can detect pressure, bending, and temperature...
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Vibration-Powered Robots Are the Size of the World's Smallest Ant
Researchers have developed tiny three-dimensionally (3D)-printed robots that move by harnessing vibrations.
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The Speediest Quantum Operation Yet
Researchers in Australia built the first two-qubit gate between atomic qubits in silicon.
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Automated System Generates Robotic Parts for Novel Tasks
Researchers have developed an automated system that can design and print in three dimensions complex robotic parts optimized to a large number of specifications...
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Researchers Build Transistor-Like Gate for Quantum Information Processing - with Qudits
Purdue niversity researchers used qudits to develop what could be a quantum version of a transistor, known as a gate.
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A New Way to Recognize Objects
Radar opens up possibilities for human-computer interaction.
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Spurred by Amazon, Supermarkets Try Swapping Cashiers for Cameras
Supermarket chains in Europe are testing cashierless stores with cameras that monitor items shoppers pick, with transactions recorded as they exit.
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NASA Chooses MS Researchers' Computer for Trial on Moon
A radiation-hardened computer designed by Montana State University researchers was chosen by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration to be tested...
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Robot ses Machine Learning to Harvest Lettuce
A new vegetable-picking robot uses machine learning to identify and harvest iceberg lettuce.
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Drone Explodes into Maple Seed Microdrones in Midair
Samara-inspired drones can help deliver airborne payloads in a simple, reliable, inexpensive manner.
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