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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Developers Reveal Programming Languages They Love, Dread
Programmer community Stack Overflow's 2021 survey of 83,439 software developers in 181 countries found the vast majority (86.69%) named Mozilla's Rust their "most...
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Robot Apocalypse Hard to Find in America's Small, Mid-Sized Factories
Although analysts have warned that millions of blue-collar jobs in the U.S. industrial heartland will soon be displaced by robots, that is not yet the case at small...
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AI Carpenter Can Recreate Furniture From Photos
An algorithm developed by University of Washington researchers can render photos of wooden objects into three-dimensional models with enough detail to be replicated...
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Platform Teaches Nonexperts to Use ML
An interactive machine learning platform developed by Cornell University scientists is designed to train nonexperts to use algorithms effectively, efficiently,...
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Do You Hear What I Hear? A Cyberattack.
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have designed a method of making abnormal network traffic audible by rendering cybersecurity data musically.
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Using Satellite Images to Improve Human Lives
Researchers have developed a machine learning system that aims to make geospatial data more accessible to researchers and governments around the world.
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Nothing Can Keep This Drone Down
Researchers in Switzerland have developed a self-righting drone inspired by ladybugs.
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$49 Malware Receives Major Upgrade to Strike Windows, macOS PCs
Researchers at Check Point Research said the Windows-based malware variant known as Formbook has been upgraded to infiltrate Mac computers.
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Your Next Car May Anticipate Your Needs—and Let You Add Features on the Fly
From peppier engines for road trips to heated steering wheels in winter, automakers are developing intelligent vehicles that spot motorists' wants and let them...
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Quantum Computing's Next Big Challenge: A Quantum Skills Shortage
Increasing qubit counts and improving error correction is hard enough. But quantum computing companies are finding one of the biggest challenges might be to find...
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Cyber Risk in Digital Transformation
Cybersecurity missteps during corporate Digital Transformation efforts can lead to digital breaches.
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BSC Develops Open AI Model That Can Write and Understand Spanish
The MarIA open AI system is a set of deep neural networks trained to acquire an understanding of language, its vocabulary, and its mechanisms to express meaning...
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EU Fines Amazon Record $888 Million Over Data Violations
Luxembourg's CNPD data protection authority fined Amazon a record $888 million for breaching the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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AI Can Now Be Recognized as an Inventor
Australia's Federal Court has granted artificial intelligence systems legal recognition as inventors in patent applications, challenging the assumption that invention...
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Honeypot Security Technique Can Stop Attacks in Natural Language Processing
A machine learning framework can proactively counter universal trigger attacksi n natural language processing applications.
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AI Helps Improve NASA's Eyes on the Sun
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists are calibrating images of the sun with artificial intelligence to enhance data for solar research....
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Stanford ML Tool Streamlines Student Feedback Process for Computer Science Professors
Stanford University researchers have developed a machine learning teaching tool designed to assist computer science professors in gauging feedback from large numbers...
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Tracking Circadian Rhythms From Your Smartwatch
A new algorithm can extract an individual’s circadian rhythm from heart rate data collected by their smartwatch.
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Less Chat Can Help Robots Make Better Decisions
Robot swarms could cooperate more effectively if communication among some members of the swarm could be curtailed.
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