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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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When Hatred Goes Viral: Inside Social Media's Efforts to Combat Terrorism
On New Year's Eve in 2015 local and federal agents arrested a 26-year-old man in Rochester, N.Y., for planning to attack people at random later that night using...
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A Whole New Jupiter: First Science Results from Nasa's Juno Mission
Early science results from NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized...
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That Time the Soviets Bugged Congress, and Other Spy Tales
During a private meeting in the Oval Office earlier this month, President Donald Trump is understood to have disclosed highly classified intelligence to two senior...
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Stanford Scholars, Researchers Discuss Key Ethical Questions Self-Driving Cars Present
Stanford University scholars discuss the challenging ethical ramifications of driverless vehicles.
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How to Prevent 3D Printing Hacks? Install Secret Flaws and Share the Decoder Ring
Researchers say they have developed techniques manufacturers can use to thwart intellectual property thieves.
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Detecting Life In Space: The Red Edge
The universe's "most interesting star" just started acting up again.
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sing Bitcoin to Prevent Identify Theft
A new system uses bitcoin's security mechanisms to foil online identify thieves.
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Google's Alphago Defeats Chinese Go Master in Win For AI
Google DeepMind's AlphaGo program beat a Chinese world champion in the first of three Go games held this week.
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Curiosity May Be Vital For Truly Smart AI
A computer algorithm equipped with a form of artificial curiosity can learn to solve tricky problems even when it isn't immediately clear what actions might help...
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Earth-Observing Companies Push For More-Advanced Science Satellites
Never have so many private eyes looked down at Earth.
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Speeding p Quality Control For Biologics
Engineers have developed a new method for analyzing biologics in production, based on a series of nanoscale filters.
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Making Machines Make Sense
Researchers are working to imbue computing devices with sophisticated object recognition and tactile capabilities that could take computer sensing to an entirely...
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A Brief History of Seti@home
The year was 1999, and the people were going online. AOL, Compuserve, mp3.com, and AltaVista loaded bit by bit after dial-up chirps, on screens across the world...
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New Computation Tools Enable Much Faster and Cheaper Product Development
Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Center of Finland have developed faster, more accurate, and agile computation tools and methods.
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River Channels on Three Worlds Reveal a History of Shifting Landscapes
At this point, we've worked out the basics of the processes that produced the topography around us here on Earth.
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u.s. Top Court Tightens Patent Suit Rules in Blow to 'patent Trolls'
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday tightened rules for where patent lawsuits can be filed in a decision that may make it harder for so-called patent "trolls" to launch...
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Researchers Look to Add Statistical Safeguards to Data Analysis and Visualization Software
New software is designed to eliminate multiple hypothesis testing errors in interactive data exploration and visualization systems using real-time statistical safeguards...
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Your Camera Wants to Kill the Keyboard
Snapchat knew it from the start, but in recent months Google and Facebook have all but confirmed it: The keyboard, slowly but surely, is fading into obscurity. ...
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Inside Russia's Social Media War on America
On March 2, a disturbing report hit the desks of U.S. counterintelligence officials in Washington.
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