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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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Bitcoin and Ethereum Have a Hidden Power Structure, and It's Just Been Revealed
In cryptocurrency circles, calling something "centralized" is an insult.
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Intel Halts Some Chip Patches as the Fixes Cause Problems
The chipmaker's updates were meant to fix the Meltdown and Spectre design flaws, but have been causing computers to unexpectedly reboot.
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New Nasa Cassini Image of Saturn Moon Has a Surprise
Usually, the postcards stop after a journey ends, but not so for robotic adventurer Cassini, whose epic journey exploring Saturn and its neighbors finished in September...
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Quantum Technology Forgoes Unconditional Security to Extend its Reach
Two projects in China demonstrate the possibility of global quantum key distribution networks.
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Going Serverless
Serverless computing lets businesses and application developers focus on the program they need to run, without worrying about the machine on which it runs, or the...
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Designing Customizable Self-Folding Swarm Robots
Researchers are developing robotic swarms that can be rapidly customized, self-assembled, and self-deployed without human intervention.
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China's Quantum-Key Network, the Largest Ever, Is Officially Online
China has the quantum technology to perfectly encrypt useful signals over distances far vaster than anyone has ever accomplished, spanning Europe and Asia, according...
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Tractor Beam Breakthrough Could Lead to Levitating Humans
Tractor beams have made the jump from science fiction to reality in recent years, but only for levitating very small objects.
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New Research Adds Physiology to Computer Models
Researchers contend that without a physiological complement, a computer program modeling the mind would just be a brain in a vat.
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Security Fears Spark Crackdown on Chinese Tech
The federal government is taking steps to reduce the presence of some Chinese technology firms in American markets.
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Thank the Planet's Shifty Magnetic Poles For Runway Renaming
For decades, pilots heading into or out of Wichita Eisenhower National Airport in southeast Kansas have had three runways to choose from: 1L/19R, 1R/19L, and 14...
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China Declared World's Largest Producer of Scientific Articles
For the first time, China has overtaken the United States in terms of the total number of science publications, according to statistics compiled by the US National...
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Nus Engineers Invent Tiny Vision Processing Chip For ltra-Small Smart Vision Systems and Iot Applications
EQSCALE is a new microchip that captures visual details from video frames using 20 times less power than existing chips.
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Himawari-8 Data Assimilated Simulation Enables 10-Minute pdates of Rain and Flood Predictions
Researchers in Japan used the K supercomputer to show incorporating satellite data at frequent intervals into weather prediction models can improve weather predictions...
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Can Software Predict Crime? Maybe So, but No Better Than a Human
Can you predict a crime?
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A New Way to Track Down Bugs Could Help Save Iot
On a clear day this summer, security researcher Ang Cui boarded a boat headed to a government biosafety facility off the northeastern tip of Long Island.
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c Riverside Research Will Help Protect Military Software From Hackers
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside say they are trying to protect important but outdated computers and software still in use by securing legacy...
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Artificial Intelligence Will Be a Human Jobs Creator
In 2013, James "Jimi" Crawford founded a company called Orbital Insight, barely noticed at the time amid the Silicon Valley froth.
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