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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Getting the Dirt on Creation, Inside OSIRIS-REx's First Close Look at Bennu
Last week at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) the science team of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission presented their first findings from the asteroid...
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Hidden Messages Fool AI
Forced errors focus attention on neural network quirks.
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Quantum Leap
A new proof supports a 25-year-old claim of the unique power of quantum computing.
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Team Invents Method to Shrink Objects to the Nanoscale
MIT researchers have invented a way to fabricate nanoscale 3-D objects of nearly any shape. They can also pattern the objects with a variety of useful materials...
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How Russian Trolls sed Meme Warfare to Divide America
There's a meme on Instagram, circulated by a group called "Born Liberal." A fist holds a cluster of strings, reaching down into people with television sets for...
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China Has Never Had a Real Chip Industry. Making AI Chips Could Change That.
Donald Trump is speaking Mandarin.
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Radical New Neural Network Design Could Overcome Big Challenges in AI
A new design for neural networks lacks traditional stacked layers of simple computational nodes that work together to find patterns in data.
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The Key to Cracking Long-Dead Languages
Broken and scorched black by fire, the dense, wedge-shaped marks etched into the ancient clay tablets are only just visible under the soft light at the British...
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Quantum Computing Needs You to Help Solve Its Core Mystery
Since 2016, IBM has offered online access to a quantum computer. Anyone can log in and execute commands on a 5-qubit or 14-qubit machine located in Yorktown Heights...
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Taming Turbulence: Seeking to Make Complex Simulations a Breeze
Researchers used state-of-the-art supercomputers to examine how turbulence in the atmosphere plays out over long periods of time
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'Superhuman' AI Triumphs Playing the Toughest Board Games
DeepMind's self-learning AlphaZero algorithm has demonstrated superhuman success at complex board games including chess, shogi, and go.
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NASA's InSight Takes Its First Selfie
NASA's InSight lander isn't camera-shy. The spacecraft used a camera on its robotic arm to take its first selfie—a mosaic made up of 11 images.
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Inside Huawei's Secret HQ, China Is Shaping the Future
The surprise arrest of Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co., has thrust the company into a political firestorm and deepened a core threat...
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Researchers se Computer Model to Predict Prostate Cancer Progression
Researchers from Denmark and Germany trained a computer model on prostate cancer patient data to predict disease progression.
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IHMC Teaches Atlas to Walk Like a Human
Roboticists at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition are teaching Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot Atlas a more natural walking gait.
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This Plant Is Driving Its Own Robot
Elowan is a mobile cybernetic plant with a robotic base.
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The .S. National Academies Reports on the Prospects for Quantum Computing
A task force evaluated the feasibility of developing a functional quantum computer, emphasizing "the time and resources required, and how to assess the probability...
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The Chef That Can Make a Gourmet Burger Every 30 Seconds
A restaurant in San Francisco employs two robots to prepare gourmet burgers for diners.
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All Hail the AI Overlord: Smart Cities and the AI Internet of Things
Cities generate lots of data. The exact amount depends on the size of the city and its sophistication and ambitions, but it's certainly more than mere humans can...
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